I said you'll never write another song like this again and he didn't. What he did come...
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Tony Visconti: [referring to "Space Oddity"] I said you'll never write another song like this again and he didn't. What he did come up with was something no one dreamt about at the time. He was the first rock star to take on a different identity. In other words, it was Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie. That was his *stroke* of genius
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But they said You'll never write another song
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like this again and he didn't
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What he did come up with was something no one dreamt about at the time
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He was the first rock star to take on a different identity
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In other words it was Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie
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That was his stroke of genius
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Movie Summary
Documentary following five years of Bowie's early career, from the late 1960s through to the on-stage death of Ziggy Stardust in 1973 and features never seen before archive interviews with some of Bowie's earliest collaborators.
