Ziggy Stardust at 50

David Bowie released The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars fifty years ago today. A bold move for Bowie, the story of an alien saviour falling to his ego and destroyed by those who sent him, something he went back to in part when he starred in The Man Who Fell To Earth. A reminder of how we need to save ourselves.

Ziggy is the most famous of his many alter egos, though Aladdin Sane had the most famous look. As well as musical influences, it perhaps also gave us the title for Starman, just one of his direct and indirect effects on SFF.

And in gaming, not many concept albums get an unofficial RPG but Starchildren / Velvet Generation is an exception.

And naturally I riffed on the song titles for Doctor Who adventure hooks.