Star

Like so many have said before, this album is A-C-E. There isn't a bad or even mediocre tune on it - consistent, well-ordered and above all designed to inspire.

"I could fall in love alright as a Rock'n'roll Star..."

The song, alone, is a pretty straight forward song about people becoming rock stars to try to make a difference in the world. However, when brought together with Ziggy, I think that it's no surprise that a song called "Star" among an album full of space and star imagery is actually about becoming a rock star, rather than stars in general. Kind of showing the connection between being a rock star and traveling the final frontier.

I think it's Ziggy seeing what a few people on earth are doing to try and make the world a better place, failing, and then saying that he could do a better job through music. He also just dreams about how much fun it would be and how cool it'd feel all the time, doing regular things as a rock 'n' roll star...

I could fall asleep at night as a rock & roll star I could fall in love all right as a rock & roll star

"Rudie stayed at home to starve"Rudie is Jamaican slang for Rude boy or Punk,Rudies often tried to rebel from the system in any way they could

this song is an anthem for glam rock. david bowie talks about rock stars and what they've done and what he could do if he was on..it's a great song all in all.

I love at the end. "Watch me now..." Good stuff. Another fun song to dance too.

I actually tooko this kind of on face value - as if he was talking about his "friends" (i originally though roomates - perhaps at college, before he got famous), and what happened when, basically, they'd blown all their money, probably on drugs. They all seem to have ambitions, and he thinks his if the only one vaguely sensible one - like, "yeahh, i'll become a rock star to pay for our daily baked beans on toast!".

he's also laughing at them, in a friendly way - "well, he can tell you that he tried,".

Nai Bevan did change the nation - but who is Sonny? Nai Bevan set up the NHS in the UK

Doesn't he sing "I'd send my money back to my honey"?

It doesn't sound at all like "photograph."

There's a pretty direct reference to T-Rex ('Get it on'). Also Marc Bolan before he became famous was always boasting and talking about how he would become a famous star. There's a lot of Bolan in Ziggy and Bolan was a bigger influence on Bowie than he gets credits for.