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大衛‧鮑伊的另一個華麗化身，走進「Ziggy Stardust」奇幻的搖滾世界
「如果2013年被塑造為大衛‧鮑伊之年，那作者書中的Ziggy就是造就這位偉大的搖滾詩人最重要的元素之一。」─《Q Magazine》
暢銷書《Mozipedia: The Encyclopedia of Morrissey and The Smiths》作者的最新作品，重新讓Ziggy Stardust返回人間。Ziggy Stardus是大衛‧鮑伊在70年代發表專輯《The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars》塑造的一個拯救地球的外星救世主，最後成為受到世人歡迎的搖滾巨星。以Ziggy為主角，作者敘述他傳奇而短暫的一生。Ziggy的誕生，打造了全新的搖滾世代，他就像一個閃耀的彗星墜落塵世，照亮世人並震撼音樂界。到底誰是Ziggy Stardus？他到底從何而來？為何最後又槍殺自己？這是一部奇幻而難忘的經典偽自傳作品，重溫Ziggy的迷幻與狂放的搖滾人生，喜愛大衛‧鮑伊的歌迷絕對值得珍藏。
He came from Outer Space...
It was the greatest invention in the history of pop music – the rock god who came from the stars – which struck a young David Bowie like a lightning bolt from the heavens.
When Ziggy the glam alien messiah fell to Earth, he transformed Bowie from a prodigy to a superstar who changed the face of music forever. But who was Ziggy Stardust? And where did he really come from?
In a work of supreme pop archaeology, Simon Goddard unearths every influence that brought Ziggy to life – from HG Wells to Holst, Kabuki to Kubrick, and Elvis to Iggy. Ziggyology documents the epic drama of the Starman’s short but eventful time on Planet Earth… and why Bowie eventually had to kill him.