Became the special man…
Compiled by “Culture-section regulars”, the Sunday Times Culture Section (Music) from the weekend just gone has what they reckon to be The 20 most influential albums.
As you can see, David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars is at number three, and here follows an excerpt from the article…
“Pop music has always been about much more than just music; so, in our list, we?ve taken a broad view of what these albums are influencing. If we had limited ourselves exclusively to musical influence, for example, we might have removed Ziggy Stardust (musicians inspired by glam tend to favour Marc Bolan as a template) and replaced it with Bowie?s Low, which sowed the musical seeds for the next decade.
But Ziggy was the album that changed our world. It told us that if you didn?t like the way you were, you could just reinvent yourself.”
You can read the whole thing