11. Michael GiraThe Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
That’s just a brilliant work of art.
He’s one of the only living people to have a blue plaque up in London, where the cover photo was taken.
He deserves it. He had ten really good years. The rest has been really dismal, unfortunately, in my opinion. But that album is a masterpiece in terms of arrangements and songwriting, everything. It manages to sort of rock, but at that same time it has this sort of cabaret song aspect to it, and from a producer’s point of view, which I suppose you could call me, it’s impeccable: no sound gets in the way of another sound, it’s always changing with every four to eight bars. It’s to me as good as, if not better than, Sgt Pepper’s. One of the best rock albums ever made.
