David Bowie on the Ziggy Stardust years: “We were designing the 21st century in 1971”

It's been more than 40 years since David Bowie created the gender-bending Ziggy Stardust and released the now-classic album "The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust" And "The Spiders From Mars". With it, Bowie helped invent glam-rock. In conversation with Fresh Air's Terry Gross from 2002, Bowie was in the midst of making the following year's Reality, and here talks about leaving characters in his songs, his love of Tibetan horns, and his childhood desire to write musicals and play saxophone in Little Richard's band.
Originally broadcast September 4, 2002.
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[@mangasky7]

You can tell Bowie was past done talking about Ziggy here, and just wanted to discuss his current work and interests.

[@gregtuco1]

No-o-o-ooo!

[@Wishful-Thinking]

Bowie was past done talking about Ziggy after the Hammersmith farewell gig. It must have been extremely tiring for him to be constantly asked about him after that date, but hey! that was the price of inventing the best plastic rocker the world has ever seen. 🙂