"Ziggy Stardust" is the ninth track on the Bowie's fifth studio album "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars", released on 16 June 1972 by RCA Records. The original recording was never released as a single, but a live version recorded at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium during the Ziggy Stardust Tour was released as a single in France and the United States in 1994 to promote the bootleg album "Santa Monica '72" (1994). This version was accompanied by a video compiled from live footage shot at Dunstable Civic Hall on 21 June 1972 which, according to Pegg, offers "fascinating glimpses of an early Ziggy show in action." In the wake of Bowie's death in 2016, the song peaked at number 86 on the Portuguese AFP chart, number 75 on the "Billboard" Japan Hot 100 and at number 17 on the US "Billboard" Hot Rock Songs chart.