Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

At London's Hammersmith Odeon on July 3, 1973, British singer David Bowie embodies his Ziggy Stardust persona for the final time. The performance unfolds as a decadent spectacle—a hallucinogenic collage of kitsch, pop irony, and flamboyant excess—constituting a musical fusion of feminine ardor and masculine authority that came to define Bowie's artistry and the glam rock movement.