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 Key People involved in Ziggy Stardust

David Bowie (January 1972)

David Bowie

Born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 at 40 Stansfield Road, Brixton, London. Singer, songwriter, saxophonist, guitarist, keyboard player, actor, artist and in 1972 and 1973 - Ziggy Stardust!

In the 1960s Bowie had changed his name so as not to be confused with the lead singer of the Monkees - who was Davy Jones.  In 1974 he also claimed that he had "wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that."

 

 

 

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