'Ziggy Stardust' to return to the Eventim Apollo for one night only
50 years on from David Bowie’s last performance as Ziggy
Last updated 23rd Jun 2023
Fifty years to the day since David Bowie’s last performance as his famous alter-ego, Ziggy Stardust returns to Eventim Apollo (formerly the Odeon) and in cinemas nationwide for one night only on Monday 3rd July.
'Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture’ is digitally restored (now in 4K and with 5.1 sound) with never-before-seen footage. The film is to be unveiled at a red carpet global premiere at the Eventim Apollo to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of Ziggy.
The screening will be preceded by a Q&A with Richard E Grant, Don Letts, Danielle Perry, Ken Scott and Suggs, plus a performance by Bowie pianist Mike Garson.
Suggs said: “David Bowie changed how I thought about music and how I viewed the world. He’d been around a bit but the persona he created with Ziggy allowed me to dream bigger and the music that the Spiders from Mars made added to that. They seemed like a gang from another planet – a gang you wanted to be in."
Garson will also open the show as he did in 1973, with a live solo piano arrangement of some of Bowie’s best-known tracks.
The Q&A at Eventim Apollo will be hosted by award-winning editor, Mercury Music Prize judge and Echo Velvet’s Creative Director Phil Alexander.
"The idea of Ziggy and the band returning to that same stage, 50 years to the day, allows Bowie fans to unite and enjoy a once in lifetime experience. It will be the closest anyone has come to being there back in ’73, and we intend to make sure we celebrate the events of that fateful night with a good few surprises.”
The premiere will allow fans to relive that iconic night in music history in the venue where it all happened exactly fifty years ago. The film features the complete set, including a performance by late guitarist Jeff Beck, which was cut from D A Pennebaker’s original version.
This 50th anniversary event is produced by The Makers Of and Echo Velvet alongside the David Bowie estate and in conjunction with Warner Music.
Tickets to the Ziggy Stardust Eventim Apollo event and nationwide cinema screenings are on sale NOW!