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"Ziggy Stardust" is a song written by David Bowie in 1972 for the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

• Bowie recorded the song for the BBC radio program "Sounds of the 70s: Bob Harris" January 1st, 1972. This was broadcast February 7th, 1972. May 16th, 1972 Bowie again played the song at "Sounds of the 70s: John Peel", and this was broadcast May 23rd, 1972. Both these versions was released on the Bowie at the Beeb album in 2000.
• A live version recorded at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 20 October 1972 was released on Santa Monica '72. This version also appeared on the Japanese release of RarestOneBowie.
• The version played at the famous concert at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, July 3 1973 was released on Ziggy Stardust - The Motion Picture.
• A recording from the 1978 Heroes tour recorded at the Philadelphia Spectrum, April 28-29. 1978, was released on Stage. This live version was released as the B-side of the live single "Breaking Glass" in 1978.

• AFI - (Ziggy Stardust Acoustic) "AOL Sessions Under Cover" and a couple of live versions including a performance for Live Earth.
• Balzac - (Ziggy Stardust) DEEP BLUE: Chaos from Darkism II [1]
• Ars Moriensis - Shots & Cuts
• Bauhaus - Single and David Bowie Songbook (Bowie reportedly said that Bauhaus played the song "the way [he] should")
• Bloodstone - Valley of the Machines
• Ken Clinger - KCX 1'7/KCX 18
• Def Leppard – Single (1996)
• Exploding Boy - New Generation
• Fox – Single
• Glabis - Live: At Luciano's
• Hootie and the Blowfish - Live Recording and on the album Blow Fish Blow (1995).
• Seu Jorge recorded a Portuguese version for the film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. (2004)
• Max Lorentz & Friends - Live Recording
• Recently, Guns N' Roses keyboardist Dizzy Reed has played Ziggy Stardust for his piano solo.
• The Moog Cookbook - Ye Olde Space Bande (1997)
• Nuit d'Óctobre - The Dark Side Of David Bowie: A Tribute To David Bowie (1997)
• The Pozers - Cover This (1998)
• Shamrock - Live Recording
• Toad The Wet Sprocket - Live Recording: Scranton, PA 4/5/95
• White Buffalo - Essential Interpretations (1997)
• Data Bank A – Single
• Redd Kross - Teen Babes From Monsanto (1984)
• Vice Squad - The BBC Sessions (1998)
• A cover version of the song is playable in the Playstation 2 game Guitar Hero.
• The Gourds - Starman: Rare and Exclusive Versions of 18 Classic David Bowie Songs, CD premium from the March 2003 issue of Uncut magazine; this version also appears on BowieMania: Mania, une collection obsessionelle de Beatrice Ardisson (2007)
• The Spiders from Mars - The Mick Ronson Memorial Concert (2001); the Spiders here consisting of Joe Elliott (vocals, acoustic guitar), Bill Nelson (guitar), Trevor Bolder (bass), Woody Woodmansey, (drums), Billy Rankin (guitar), and Phil Lanzon (keyboards)
• Nina Hagen