Glam rock history will repeat itself in Hammersmith tonight, note for note, as David Bowie’s fabled farewell to his outlandish alter ego Ziggy Stardust receives a special big-screen encore. Fifty years to the day since Bowie shocked the world by staging his own rock’n’roll suicide, a newly restored and extended cut of director DA Pennebaker’s concert film, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, is premiering in the same landmark venue where it was shot back in 1973, the Eventim Apollo, formerly known as the Hammersmith Odeon.
This all-star launch event will be introduced by Bowie’s ex-bandmates Mike Garson and Michael “Woody” Woodmansey, plus famous fans including Suggs, Don Letts and Richard E Grant (the film will also screen in selected cinemas across the UK at the same time).
