From there, Bowie’s only way was up. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars would follow just six ...

“‘Hunky Dory’ gave me a fabulous groundswell,” Bowie once said. “I guess it provided me, for the first time in my life, with an actual audience. I mean, people actually coming up to me and saying, ...

David Bowie was already four years and four albums into his career when he issued Hunky Dory, the first record to help secure ...

The additional discs are filled out with Bowie’s entire John Peel session from June 1971 — only a handful of the recordings previously appeared on the Bowie at the Beeb comp — plus additional ...

First came the Beatles, then the Stones — but by 1971 , the British invasion was already starting to fade and David Bowie was at a crossroads. His first three albums were commercial flops, and he was ...

The eight-part documentary series “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything,” which begins streaming May 21 on Apple TV+, is nothing if not grandly ambitious. Based on David Hepworth’s book “Never ...

DAVID BOWIE: (Singing) Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly and The Spiders from Mars. He played it left hand, but made it too far, became the special man then we were Ziggy's band.

On this day, December 17, 1971, this iconic artist released the last album before adopting the alter ego that would make him ...

A detail from the cover of David Bowie's album Hunky Dory, first released in 1971. First came the Beatles, then the Stones — but by 1971 , the British invasion was already starting to fade and David ...