Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Miles and Alex…
The Last Shadow Puppets have made no secret of their love for David Bowie’s sixties recordings to the point of releasing their own version of In The Heat Of The Morning earlier in the year, (03.22.2008 NEWS: LAST SHADOW PUPPETS COVER BOWIE ON DEBUT 7″) a version which DB himself expressed his delight with. (04.09.2008 NEWS: DB DELIGHTED WITH LAST SHADOW PUPPETS COVER)
In The Heat Of The Morning is a song the band continue to perform in their live set too, as witnessed at their most recent gig at the Tempodrome in Berlin by BowieNetter j_lope who posted the evidence here on the MBs.
Now Miles Kane of the band has singled out Ziggy Stardust in the current issue of NME as an album that “All bands should hear…” and he even hints that he may be nicking some of the ideas on it for the next Rascals‘ album.
Miles also chose Cygnett Committee as the song that contains his favourite chord change, as you can read in the piece above.