David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Album

With “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust” album David Bowie gave us the first rock concept disc. By presenting the alien Ziggy Stardust as a rock legend in the making, Bowie actually made himself a rock legend. Each song on “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust” is stylistically different. From the soft ballads to the all and out rock of “Suffragette City” you can’t help but appreciate the variety. This CD definitely captures an era, before glam-rock had become a cliché and the whole androgynous rock-star motif had lapsed into self-parody. Bowie really did represent something entirely new and fresh at that moment in rock-history and it wears well to this day.