But Bowie doesn’t say that Ziggy broke up the band, he said “I” had to. I honestly don’t understand why this doesn’t seem obvious to people, but oh well.“I have also posted this theory on the internet before, to the same type of dismissive responses you are getting. Posted: May 16th, 2015 ˑ Filled under: © 2015 Hey Dullblog, the Beatles fan blog. Thanks for reading!J.R., I think you’re right that the very public and recent implosion of the Beatles likely fed into the overall concept of “Ziggy Stardust.” But I can’t follow you in seeing Ziggy Stardust as a character Bowie focused on McCartney.I think J.R. has completely missed the point of Bowie’s song. Paul by John.Hah, I think random people find this post via SEO also, when they search for “is Ziggy Stardust about Paul McCartney.” Because that’s what I did a few months ago when I first ran across this post and wondered “do people REALLY think that?” I really did enjoy your analysis. Why? Again, adults (and certainly great artists) don’t write allegory — allegory is for children. I believe that the historical context in which Bowie wrote and recorded the song, a critical reading of the lyrics to “Ziggy Stardust”, and some clues from The Beatles’ history, will reveal McCartney to be one of Bowie’s inspirations for the character of Ziggy Stardust.Bowie wrote and recorded “Ziggy” between September 1971 and January 1972, a time when the most important story in rock ‘n’ roll was the very bitter public feud between John Lennon and Paul McCartney following the breakup of The Beatles.
Great website.“Not that I buy J.R.’s theory as gospel. Grant us that it’s an interesting, amusing theory — it has certainly made me look at the song and its lyrics anew, which is no small accomplishment for a classic. And even then, after 40 years, people can’t tell exactly who he’s talking about in places, and to his credit he won’t say. It’s very obvious who the song is about and who wrote it. When somebody asked him what American Pie means he replied “it means I never have to work again.” Good on him.Jeez, David. Please, I hope everybody will express his or herself fully.
He ends up retiring Ziggy and goes to find other sources of inspiration, especially from american musicians. McCartney had publicly taken credit for breaking up the band and he had recently sued the other three Beatles to dissolve their business relationship. Just as one of us here might base a song on our neighbor, Bowie and Lennon and McCartney were all peers working in the same field, a small field. He combined it all in his mind and came up with Ziggy, and also prophesied Ziggy’s doom, which more or less is what happened to Bowie in ensuing years as his drug use and other excesses nearly killed him.In contrast, McCartney was always such a cheerful and level guy, down to earth, mother nature’s son. I think it’s absolutely essential to remember that great artists, in addition to their awesome greatness, have peers and work-friends and people they hang out with. The feud began when McCartney released the album Ram in May 1971; Lennon took offense to the lyrics of several songs that he interpreted as personal slights. I am the biggest Beatles fan there is, and I’ve always known that Ziggy was indeed Paul. He is an artist that takes his personal excesses and turns them into art. I have long believed this song to be about Paul. So if this is Paul, Weird is Lennon, Gilley is George, that makes Ringo the entire Spiders from Mars? You want to have it both ways.I haven’t spent any time on this, because really there are other things to do, but this jejune analysis is of a piece with what people claim on songfacts: for example, in “Tiny Dancer” that the line “piano man, he takes his stand/in the auditorium” must refer to Billy Joel, because he had a song called “Piano Man”.
Maybe his persona is some kind of opposite to Ziggy, but I just don’t see the inspiration part. As a child, before real Beatle-consciousness, when wandering in the record section of the department store, I always associated the cover of In the field of literary criticism, this is what’s known as overreading.
Every time I read this theory, I find it sillier and sillier.Sounds plausible, except for the “snow white tan” thing. After we figure out who Ziggy is, we can move on to Paul’s “Rockshow,” tongue firmly in cheek.Far be it from me to claim an understanding of the staggering genius of any of those guys. Paul’s contributions on guitar on Beatles songs weren’t even known at the time Bowie write this song.And sorry but it makes no sense at all that Bowie — a Lennon fan — would craft an entire character around McCartney and assume his identity on stage.
So he wasn’t mimicking Linda or her haircut since HE had it cut this way before SHE did.J.R., on rereading your post I see that you acknowledge that it’s “probably most likely that Bowie made Ziggy Stardust a composite figure of many rock musicians,” and that DOES make good sense.
Bowie allegedly played John and Paul an acetate of his forthcoming album, Very canny, this. This version was accompanied by a video compiled from live footage sh… It’s just a theory.
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