

That bit of advice led to not only Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke, but also, the Goblin King. “Be someone else,” the publicist tells Bowie. IFC Films biopic Stardust follows Bowie ( Lovesick‘s Johnny Flynn) as he’s sent to America to promote his third album, 1970’s The Man Who Sold the World, with help from a music publicist played by pre- Joker beard Marc Maron. His self-titled debut barely made a commercial dent, while the follow-up, also named David Bowie (later re-titled Space Oddity), had a hit, but sold poorly as well. I mean, technically before he was David Bowie or DAVID BOWIE, he was David Robert Jones, but you get the idea. David Bowie wasn’t DAVID BOWIE, internationally-known rock god, until his fifth album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
