Where did the idea for Ziggy Stardust come from?
Bowie has reported that roots of Ziggy Stardust lay in the desire to write a theatrical, musical piece of work: “I wanted to write theatrical – actually, strangely enough, well, maybe it’s not so strange when you look at it in context, but when I was around 17 or 18 what I wanted to do more than anything else was to write something for Broadway. I wanted to write a musical. I had no idea of how you did it or how musicals were constructed, but the idea of writing something that was rock-based for Broadway really intrigued me. I thought that would be a wonderful thing to do. I saw myself as someone who would end up writing musicals in a way – probably rock musicals of some nature – but it never actually became that. So, in a way, those ideas were kind of quashed a little when I realised what a huge ambitious thing that was to take on, you know, because you have to write dialogue and all that. And I really didn’t know how to approach that so I took a far simpler course and kind of abbrevi
Bowie has reported that roots of Ziggy Stardust lay in the desire to write a theatrical, musical piece of work: “I wanted to write theatrical – actually, strangely enough, well, maybe it’s not so strange when you look at it in context, but when I was around 17 or 18 what I wanted to do more than anything else was to write something for Broadway. I wanted to write a musical. I had no idea of how you did it or how musicals were constructed, but the idea of writing something that was rock-based for Broadway really intrigued me. I thought that would be a wonderful thing to do. I saw myself as someone who would end up writing musicals in a way – probably rock musicals of some nature – but it never actually became that. So, in a way, those ideas were kind of quashed a little when I realised what a huge ambitious thing that was to take on, you know, because you have to write dialogue and all that. And I really didn’t know how to approach that so I took a far simpler course and kind of abbrevi
