Music may change...
Last Sunday's Observer in the UK ran a feature on
A hard choice in my opinion, there are several Bowie albums that would fit the bill. Nevertheless, the paper settled on The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, and here's what they had to say about it...
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David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1972)
Bowie's revolutionary mix of hard rock and glam pop was given an otherworldly look and feel by his coquettish alter ego Ziggy. It's not so much that every act that followed dyed their hair orange in homage to the spidery spaceman; more that they learned the value of creating a 'bubble' of image and presentation that fans could fall in love with.
Without this ... we'd be lost. No Sex Pistols, no Prince, no Madonna, no Duran Duran, no Boy George, no Kiss, no Bon Jovi, no 'Bohemian Rhapsody' ... I could go on.
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In celebration of this recognition, we've decided to give away five copies of the quite wonderful Ziggy Stardust SACD (courtesy of EMI) which was mixed for 5.1 by Ken Scott back in January 2003, and released in September of the same year. (09.29.2003 NEWS: THREE MORE BOWIE SACDs RELEASED TODAY)
And so in the spirit of Ziggy Stardust changing music, I decided to change Ziggy Stardust. All you have to do is spot the five differences on the version of the
Simply list the five alterations I've made, for example: 1 = Hair is now green, was yellow. 2 = Extra box of rubbish in foreground of pic.
Those are examples of the kind of things you should be looking for...obviously they aren't actual examples of real changes, but that's how obvious the five changes are.
When you've tracked down all five, send them to me here. The contest ends two weeks from now at midnight UK time on Sunday August 6th, and the winners will be announced soon thereafter. Happy spotting, kidz!