These are songs that contain the word “Stardust” in their lyrics.
“Ziggy Stardust” is a David Bowie song written solely by Bowie and recorded with the Spiders from Mars—Mick Ronson on guitar, Trevor Bolder on bass, and Mick Woodmansey on drums—at Trident Studios in London on November 11, 1971, for The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, released June 16, 1972. The song tells the story of Ziggy, an androgynous,
For here, am I sitting in a tin can
Far, above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do
David Bowie was born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947, in Brixton, London, England, into a working-class family whose modest circumstances belied the creative intensity that would define his life. His father, Haywood Stenton Jones, worked in promotions for a children’s charity, while his mother, Margaret Mary Burns,
