"Till There Was Rock, You Only Had God": Ziggy Stardust and Rock 'N' Roll as Religion

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I’m about as atheist you can get. The only thing that’s ever moved me in the same way that I hear other people talk about religion is music.

So it’s no wonder that David Bowie’s album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars grabbed me completely. Ziggy Stardust is rock ‘n’ roll as modern myth: rock ‘n’ roll as the religion of now.

Now that I’ve listened to Bowie’s entire 1970s oeuvre, I was going to write a post summarizing my thoughts on each album. But I realized I need to devote an entire post to Ziggy Stardust first, because there’s just so much to say about it.

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