David Bowie’s supervisor has claimed they “tried and failed” to resurrect Ziggy Stardust for a comeback tour.
The late music icon famously bid farewell to his alien rock star alter ego at his live performance at London’s Hammersmith Odeon in 1973.
Nonetheless, it was at all times his intention to make a comeback as Ziggy, in response to Bowie’s supervisor Tony Defries, who stated they tried to launch a revival tour.
Chatting with MOJO journal, Defries stated: “Mainly, I believe success wasn’t the best scenario for David.
“When [1973 album] ‘Aladdin Sane’ was promoting monumental portions and crowds have been shutting down railway stations, simply to get a look of him, I believe that’s when all of it started to sink in, that he was now not an abnormal individual. The Ziggy impact was taking maintain and he couldn’t deal with it, actually.”
The ‘Life on Mars’ hitmaker was impressed by Frank Sinatra, who had stop music earlier than saying his return after simply two years a couple of years earlier.
He defined: “David was a giant Sinatra fan. Making the comeback is the important thing factor.”
Defries added: “We tried and did not get promoters in America to ebook [a Bowie / Ziggy Stardust comeback tour] into giant arenas as a headliner. So, that was an actual cause for retiring Ziggy, to be sincere with you … nothing to do with music or model or anything.”
Video video games designer Phil Campbell additionally beforehand claimed Bowie needed to relaunch Ziggy in Area.
The pair labored collectively on the 1999 recreation ‘Omikron: The Nomad Soul’, which Bowie scored.
Chatting with The Mirror in 2020, Campbell stated: “We talked about shopping for up a bunch of outdated satellites that have been circling the Earth and he was going to relaunch Ziggy from area.
“The thought was that Ziggy would beam us transmissions – ‘Are you receiving me…?’”
Bowie died in 2016 on the age of 69, following a non-public battle with liver most cancers.
