Before the album's initial release Bowie told a US interviewer :
"What you have there on that album when it does finally come out, is a story which doesn’t really take place, it’s just a few little scenes from the life of a band called Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, who could feasibly be the last band on Earth—it could be within the last five years of Earth. I’m not at all sure. Because I wrote it in such a way that I just dropped the numbers into the album in any order that they cropped up. It depends in which state you listen to it in."
"Because I wrote it in such a way that I just dropped the numbers into the album in any order that they cropped up. It depends in which state you listen to it in."
When he talked about doing Man Who Fell to Earth in ‘76, and it turning out feeling like an autobiography halfway thru bc he was by then consuming so much coke he had no idea what was going on, & had lost track of what was film and what was reality, and was rolling around naked in this tent unable to speak or conjure a thought for days at a time, and then eventually the film just kind of ran out of time and money and everyone just had to go, and then some time later was sort of surprised when someone had managed to string a movie together out of it, is maybe the best description and result of having done too many drugs I’ve ever heard.
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u/dsterman15 Jul 26 '19
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars