Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture

Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture
Live album by
David Bowie
ReleasedOctober 1983 (1983-10)
Recorded3 July 1973 (1973-07-03)
VenueHammersmith Odeon, London
Genre
Length69:31
LabelRCA
Producer
David Bowie chronology
Golden Years
(1983) 		Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture
(1983) 		Fame and Fashion
(1984)
Singles from Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture
  1. "White Light/White Heat"
    Released: October 1983[1]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
MusicHound3/5[4]
Pitchfork7.6/10[5]

Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture is a live album by the English musician David Bowie, released in October 1983 in conjunction with the film of the same name. The music was recorded during the Ziggy Stardust Tour at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on 3 July 1973 (1973-07-03), although the album was not issued by RCA Records until 1983. Prior to that it had existed in bootleg form, notably His Masters Voice – Bowie and the Spiders From Mars' Last Stand.[6]

The album documents the final show of the Ziggy Stardust tour and the last live-in-concert performance by Bowie as his Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane persona/alter-ego (although it was not the final performance as Ziggy Stardust, which was three months later for the recording of the 1980 Floor Show). Before the final song, Bowie announced, "Of all the shows on this tour, this particular show will remain with us the longest, because not only is it the last show of the tour, but it's the last show that we'll ever do. Thank you." Many in the audience believed that Bowie himself was retiring.[7]

  1. ^ "Great Rock discography". p. 91.
  2. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r2481
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press.
  4. ^ Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel, eds. (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Visible Ink Press. p. 151. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
  5. ^ "David Bowie: Five Years 1969-1973 Album Review - Pitchfork". Pitchfork. October 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  6. ^ Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray (1981). Bowie: An Illustrated Record: p.116
  7. ^ David Buckley (1999). Strange Fascination – David Bowie: The Definitive Story: p.191