Reissued February 26, 2016, originally released June 16, 1972

Parlophone

1xLP

With apologies to Harry Potter, David Bowie still rocks the best lightning bolt in pop culture history, and Ziggy Stardust is where he truly arrived — not as a mere guitar slinging Brit-rocker like his so many of his contemporaries, but as something much more alien: a true iconoclast who's world follows its own peculiar logic, and who cannot be pigeonholed by terrestrial binaries. Generations of concept artists and face-painters have been trying to catch up since.