What have people said about the Ziggy Stardust album and David Bowie in this period?
* Reviews of the Ziggy Stardust album Cash Box (1972) “If they are still putting phonograph records in time capsules then we would like to recommend the new Bowie for inclusion. David’s latest full-scale invasion of the mind is the telling saga of a rock and roll stars trek through a garden of unearthly delights. The songs are uniformly brilliant and the production by Bowie and Ken Scott is virtually flawless. It’s an electric age nightmare. It’s a cold hard beauty. It’s another example of the shining genius of David Bowie. An album to take with you into the 1980’s” Rolling Stone “…David Bowie has pulled off his complex task with consummate style, with some great rock & roll…with all the wit and passion required to give it sufficient dimension and with a deep sense of humanity that regularly emerges from behind the star facade…I’d give it at least a 99” * Rolling Stone Magazine reviews Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray (1981) “The grand slam, and arguably (… we’ll argue for at le
