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Rise and Fall
David Bowie's seminal The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars was a concept album released in 1972. Photographer Brian Ward helped conceptualize Bowie's notion of the alien pop star for the cover image, which became this painting on Heddon Street in London's West End.
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