“Let me ask you a straight question. Do I even look as if Ziggy
Stardust would be my strongest area of Bowie knowledge?”
Jeremy Paxman lets Young Americans go to his head.
It’s confusing these days…
A piece by Amol Rajan headlined: ‘Paxman challenged after series of errors on student quiz show’, in
Read on for an excerpt from the piece in which Paxman is taken to task over a recent Bowie question on the show, of which Paxman is the host and quiz master…
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“In the most recent episode of the programme the quiz master asked “Which 1973 David Bowie album was inspired by Vince Taylor?”, and took Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars as the correct answer. In fact, the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars was released the year before, in 1972. The documentary Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture was released in 1973, which may explain Paxman’s difficulty.”
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In fact, the documentary Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture was first officially released in 1983, (aside from a one-off US TV broadcast and bootleg copies). It was filmed in 1973, which may explain Rajan’s difficulty.