Product: Ziggy Stardust [VHS]
Rating: 5.0
Smoke, Sweat, and Glitter
The film is simply a spellbinding time capsule that will suck you into an infectious world that is shallow yet powerfully emotional. If you were never a freak who dressed for rocky horror or put on make-up to go out to a rock show or dreamed of a backstage pass, then the ziggy film will help you to understand why those of us kids who were lost, took immediately to glamourous images that offered excitement, a sense of belonging, acceptance, and yes--even hope. The muddy sound is perfect. I loved the days when concert sound techs restled with the innappropriate accoustics of concrete floors, steel and glass, and uncontrollable echoes off the walls. Bowie and band gives us smoky caberet, slamming tunes, fawny glances, glamorous posturing...in short--A SHOW. If anybody knows of anybody still offering this kind of entertainment today, then please tell me. I haven't seen it since the original LA band London fell....