Buddha Of Suburbia

The title track of David Bowie's second album of 1993 was a nostalgic look back at growing up in south London in the 1950s. 'Buddha Of Suburbia' containing musical and lyrical references to his early Seventies work.

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"I'm going to be huge, and it's quite frightening in a way. Because I know that when I reach my peak and it's time for me to be brought down it will be with a bump." — David Bowie, 1972

In 1969 David Bowie appeared in a Lyons Maid ice cream advertisement, and unsuccessfully auditioned for another by Kit Kat.

The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1972)

The album with which David Bowie became a fully-fledged star, Ziggy Stardust was a loose concept album about a bisexual, androgynous rocker who became a conduit for alien beings in a dystopian alternate reality.

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