![]() The tale is as old as time it would seem, as Bowie draws comparisons with false prophets and the destruction of a hero.”Now Ziggy starts to believe in all this himself and thinks himself a prophet of the future starman. Their whole life is travelling from universe to universe.” ![]() They just happened to stumble into our universe by black-hole jumping. “They don’t have a care in the world and are of no possible use to us. The starmen that he is talking about are called the infinites, and they are black-hole jumpers. They really are a black hole, but I’ve made them people because it would be very hard to explain a black hole onstage.”īowie continues to go into depth about the conception of the persona, allegedly based on the acclaimed rocker Vince Taylor: “Ziggy is advised in a dream by the infinites to write the coming of a starman, so he writes ‘Starman,’ which is the first news of hope that the people have heard. “This does not cause the end of the world for Ziggy,” the singer continues, “The end comes when the infinites arrive. It is no hymn to the youth as people thought. ‘All the Young Dudes’ is a song about this news. So Ziggy does this and there is terrible news. Ziggy’s adviser tells him to collect news and sing it, ’cause there is no news. “Ziggy was in a rock & roll band and the kids no longer want rock and roll.
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