Chords for David Bowie Hunky Dory 54, Ziggy Stardust 42 VH1 Top 100 albums 1995.

_ _ _ _ [B] [F] In _ 1972 David Bowie [D] explored the [F#m] singer-songwriter genre with [F] his unique approach to album making with [D] Hunky Dory.
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_ [G] _ _ [F] David Bowie [C] Hunky Dory has [D] to be one of his most [G] important [F] albums.
The two [C] singles that really [F#] strive within this album were [Am] obviously Changes, a [G] brilliant single,
[Em] but Life on Mars, [D] and when you just [C] listen to that [Gm] chorus, it [Cm] sticks with you forever.
It's so [D#m] haunting. _ _ _ _
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[Gm] _ It _ _ [F#] was all about attitude [A#] and it was all about the fabrication [Gm] of life, the [D] artifice [F] of it,
which completely was running against the grain of what was happening in [F#] rock.
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[D#] My crowd, we just wanted to tart it [F#] all up.
Oh, _ [Fm] _ _ anything, [D#] _ _ _
[C#] don't you know, _ _ [B] _ _ _
lives on [E] top as [F#] you say.
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_ [F] _ [C] Within the year, Bowie would delve into his [G] Ziggy Stardust persona,
[C] but Hunky Dory [F] still remains the album that [G#] established him as a [C] songwriter of great promise and _ [G] originality.
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_ _ _ David Bowie is probably the [D] single most influential _ [G] songwriter.
[F] His ability [C] to write [D] lyrics,
including all the elements of danger and [C] intrigue and sexual ambiguity. _ _
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_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G#] 1972, _ excited fans filled an auditorium at the _ Lanchester Arts Festival in Coventry
to witness a performance by one of the biggest rock stars on earth.
But they got more than they bargained for, a free pie.
[G] Also, because they were about to be introduced to a strange new character and his extraordinary backing band,
they make it in at number 42 in VH1's 100 Greatest _ Albums. _ _
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_ _ The [C] Rise and Fall of Ziggy [G] Stardust was actually the [A] first album I ever [G] bought when I was 10 [D] years old.
_ _ [C] In 1972, _ [B]
David Bowie followed up the [G] success of Hunky Dory
[D] by delivering one of rock and roll's [C] most memorable [B] characters.
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_ _ _ _ [G] In my mind, there was something of a high priest in the [E] Ziggy character as well. _
I tried to cram [A] in every piece of information that I had at my [C] fingertips at that particular time.
[Gm] _ _ _ [G] Bowie confounded critics and fans with his [Fm] transgender Ziggy creation,
but not John Lennon, who decided the glam [C] rocker as simply rock and roll with lipstick. _
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[Am] _ Dave [C] Bowie was _ _ _ magnificent, I think, through [F] that period.
Managed to offend [Dm] everyone without doing anything specifically offensive,
[Am] but [C] somehow kept an element of class about it all, [F] rather than [A#] just being trashy.
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_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [F] No sooner had Bowie introduced the world to Ziggy Stardust than Ziggy was [E] gone,
soon to be [G] replaced by Bowie's next creation, Aladdin [E] Sane.
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Not only is it the last show of the tour, it's the last [G] show that we'll ever do. _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [C] Rather than be [Bm] pinned down, my [D] _ _ _ _ _
momentum _ _ [C] worked in [Bm] wanting to hit and run very [G] fast.
And once _ I'd done something and [Bm] said it the way I felt it should be said, _ drop it and move on.
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_ _ [A] _ [G] still number one. _ _
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