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''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars'' (often shortened to ''Ziggy Stardust'') is the fifth studio album by English musician David Bowie, which is loosely based on a story of a fictional rock star named Ziggy Stardust. It peaked at No. 5 in the United Kingdom〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UK Top 40 Hit Database )〕 and No. 75 in the United States on the Billboard Music Charts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie : Awards )〕 The album tells the story of Bowie's alter ego Ziggy Stardust, a rock star who acts as a messenger for extraterrestrial beings. Bowie created Ziggy Stardust while in New York City promoting ''Hunky Dory'' and performed as him on a tour of the United Kingdom, Japan and North America.〔David Bowie and the Rise of Ziggy Stardust, BBC 4 documentary〕 The album, and the character of Ziggy Stardust, was known for its glam rock influences and themes of sexual exploration and social commentary. These factors, coupled with the ambiguity surrounding Bowie's sexuality and fuelled by a ground-breaking performance of "Starman" on ''Top of the Pops'',〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/sevenages/events/art-rock/bowie-performs-starman-on-top-of-the-pops/〕 led to the album being met with controversy and since hailed as a seminal work.〔http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/44814/David-Bowie-The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Ziggy-Stardust.../〕 ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust...'' is about a bisexual alien rock superstar; the concept album sheds a light on the artificiality of rock music in general, discussing issues of politics, drug use, and sexual orientation.〔McLeod, Ken. "Space Oddities: Aliens, Futurism and Meaning in Popular Music." Popular Music. 22. n. page. Web. 22 Mar 2014. < http://www.jstor.org/stable/3877579>〕 ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars'' has been consistently considered one of the greatest albums of all time, with ''Rolling Stone'' magazine ranking it the 35th greatest ever.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time: David Bowie, 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars' )〕 It was ranked the 20th greatest album ever in a 1997 British survey, the 24th greatest of all time by ''Q'' magazine and one of the 100 greatest releases ever by ''Time'' magazine. A concert film of the same name, directed by D.A. Pennebaker, was released in 1973. ==Concept== The album presents, albeit vaguely, the story of a rock and roll character called "Ziggy Stardust". Ziggy is the human manifestation of an alien being who is attempting to present humanity with a message of hope in the last five years of its existence. Ziggy Stardust represents the definitive rock star: sexually promiscuous, wild in drug intake but with a message, ultimately, of peace and love. He is destroyed both by his own consumptions, and by the fans he inspired. The character of Ziggy was inspired by British rock 'n' roll singer Vince Taylor whom David Bowie met after Taylor had had a breakdown and believed himself to be a cross between a god and an alien;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC – BBC Radio 4 Programmes – Ziggy Stardust Came from Isleworth )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Leper Messiah : Vince Taylor )〕 though Taylor was only part of the blueprint for the character, other influences included the Legendary Stardust Cowboy and Kansai Yamamoto, who designed the costumes Bowie wore during the tour. The Ziggy Stardust name came partly from the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, and partly, as Bowie told ''Rolling Stone'', because Ziggy was "one of the few Christian names I could find beginning with the letter 'Z'".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=the album review site: La Roux Gets Sidetracked )〕 He later explained in a 1990 interview for ''Q'' magazine that the Ziggy part came from a tailor's shop called Ziggy's that he passed on a train, and he liked it because it had "that Iggy () connotation but it was a tailor's shop, and I thought, Well, this whole thing is gonna be about clothes, so it was my own little joke calling him Ziggy. So Ziggy Stardust was a real compilation of things." Bowie covered a Legendary Stardust Cowboy song, "I Took a Trip (On a Gemini Spaceship)", thirty years later on ''Heathen''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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