PUTNEY — Next Stage Arts Project will honor the late David Bowie on Friday, Feb. 5, by showing the 1973 film, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, at 7 p.m.
Assorted Bowie music videos are also on the bill. Costumes are welcome.
Documentarian D.A. Pennebaker focuses his lens on a 1973 concert by David Bowie, who performs under the moniker Ziggy Stardust with his glam-rock backing band, the Spiders From Mars.
While some backstage footage of the theatrical singer-songwriter is featured, the majority of the film is devoted to the music played onstage, which includes hits, album cuts, and covers of Rolling Stones and Velvet Underground songs. Bowie also shocks fans by announcing his intention to drop the Stardust persona.
David Bowie, born David Robert Jones, was an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, painter, and actor. He was a figure in popular music for more than five decades and was considered by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, and his music and stagecraft significantly impacted popular music.
During his lifetime, he sold an estimated 140 million records worldwide. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. He died Jan. 10, 2016.