World Environment Day: David Bowie and the birth of environmentalism

Bowie’s obsession with outer space and the impacts of technology on the earth predated the creation of Ziggy Stardust, says the writer. – Agencies

Fifty years on, how Ziggy Stardust and the first UN climate summit changed our vision of the future.

DAVID Bowie released his seminal album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars 50 years ago, on June 16, 1972. It was an artsy and ambitious rock album which captured the time’s sense of being on the cusp of new technological and cultural frontiers.