David Bowie was on a roll when he recorded “Suffragette City”, he was writing enough songs for his own catalog and for others to record. He’d already given Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits “Oh! You Pretty Things”, which was quite a move for the toothsome pop star but, as rock writer Charles Shaar Murray noted, Noone’s version was “one of Rock and Roll’s most outstanding examples of a singer failing to achieve any degree of empathy whatsoever with the mood and content of a lyric.” Noone was…

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Spiders from Mars

Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders from Mars at the Town Hall in Torquay, June 16 1972.

"The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" (fifth studio album) Glam rock, proto-punk