Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust

Bauhaus were an English rock band formed in Northampton in 1978.

Their sound proved influential, inspiring or bringing attention to a whole wave of post-punk groups delving into the intense, gloomy style that would eventually come to be known as gothic rock.

Its crucial elements included Peter Murphy's deep and sonorous voice, Daniel Ash's innovative guitar playing and David J's dub-influenced bass.
As the NME says,"Bauhaus are to Goth, what Radiohead are to Prog."

In 1982 Bauhaus scored their biggest hit with a cover of David Bowie's 1972 song "Ziggy Stardust", which was recorded during a BBC session. The song reached number fifteen on the British charts and earned the band an appearance on the television show Top Of The Pops.

Thanks to the success of the single, the album The Sky's Gone Out,also became the band's biggest hit, peaking at number four.

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 is the definitive rock star: sexually promiscuous, wild in drug intake and with a message, ultimately, of peace and love; but he is destroyed both by his own excesses of drugs and sex, and by the fans he inspire.