Ziggy Stardust and the Mumbrella Awards

Last week, James Greet went to the movies and saw the 50th anniversary of Bowie’s killing off of Ziggy Stardust at his seminal 1973 gig at the Hammersmith Odeon…

The opening track on the Ziggy Stardust album is my favourite Bowie song of all time: Five Years. The story of hearing a newscaster tell the world that we only have five more years to live…

“News guy wept and told us

Earth was really dying

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