David Bowie – Star (CD)

Pulled from the sessions that yielded *The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars*, "Star" captures Bowie at the precise moment his ambitions outgrew the planet. Mick Ronson's guitar work with the Spiders remains some of the most visceral rock backing of the early seventies, and the song's narrator, dreaming of being a rock and roll star, reads now as both prophecy and self-portrait.