PARIS – It is half a century since Ziggy Stardust — a character that turned David Bowie into an intergalactic star and revolutionised sexual politics in the process — crashed onto Earth.
The London singer had spent a decade trying to refine his stage persona, but despite a couple of hits — 1969’s “Space Oddity” and “Changes” two years later — he had yet to achieve the stardom he craved.
“He had failed in everything he tried since the beginning of his career,” Jerome Soligny, one of the world’s leading Bowie experts and author of “David Bowie: Rainbowman”, told AFP.
But on June 16, 1972, “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy…
