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vikingjon [2016-01-13 22:08:42 +0000 UTC]

I hope you don't mind I used your image in a journal, here: Thanks, David BowieI remember my sister (RIP) sitting me down to listen to The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders from Mars. There are a few albums she did that with.  Not just, "Hey, listen to this song," but "You HAVE to listen to this whole album!  Sit down!" and she played me the vinyl records: The Beatles' Revolver, Jethro Tull's Aqualung, The Who's Quadrophenia.  Ziggy was one of these.  I was probably eleven or so, the year 1980, but I had heard many of David Bowie's songs and records through our older sister playing them: Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Hunky Dory. Space Oddity, Changes, Rebel Rebel, Jean Jeanie were all big on the radio as well, but I recognised many of the songs on Ziggy, too.  I was amazed at the passion and in the storytelling, and how the songs all sounded linked and well hung around a theme.
A couple of years later I went to a party where one of my sis's friends was playing in a cover band in someone's basement.  They were maybe ages s

Thank you!

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