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I don't think I did anything that my contemporaries didn't; it was just that I was the only one who talked about it. In the Sixties anyone who had a sense of style seemed to be gay. I wanted to indentify with that.
— David Bowie 1993

Dans la série "les classements inutiles mais qui nous prouvent que Bowie est toujours présent" voici : The 10 best concert movies ever.
Le dernier concert Ziggy Stardust est classé en troisième position.

The 10 best concert movies ever

1. "Stop Making Sense" (1984)
2. "Awesome; I (expletive) Shot That!" (2006)
3. "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars: The Motion Picture" (1973)
4. "The Last Waltz" (1978)
5. "The Grateful Dead Movie" (1977)
6. "Rock the Bells" (2007)
7. "Monterey Pop" (1968)
8. "Fade to Black" (2004)
9. "The Song Remains the Same" (1976)
10. "Jimi Plays Berkeley" (1971)

"Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars: The Motion Picture" (1973) — D.A. Pennebaker is the greatest rock documentarian in film history. His finest hour (or really, 90 minutes) came with this feature focusing on David Bowie's most famous alter ego. The concert fell on July 3, 1973, at London's Hammersmith Odeon, the last date of a mammoth 60-night tour that would cement Bowie's place among rock's true immortals. It was also the night when pop's ultimate chameleon would retire his sci-fi-inspired Ziggy Stardust persona.
Stardust, however, would go out on a high note as the rock alien and his band (known as the Spiders From Mars) delivered inspired versions of such favorites as "Changes," "Suffragette City" and "Space Oddity." Sideman Mick Ronson was in true guitar-hero form on this evening, but it was hard to pay attention to his riffs when Bowie/Stardust was such a thoroughly captivating presence. Has any musician ever inhabited a character more fully than Bowie wearing Stardust? Watch this movie before you answer.

By Jim Harrington

Lunamagic, Contra Costa Times

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