“Just turn on with me and you're not alone...”
Saturday 1st July 1972 saw the arrival of David Bowie’s The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars in the UK top 20 album chart at #15, while in the same week Starman was enjoying a second week in the top 50 at #41 on its way to a peak of #10.
Ziggy Stardust was the first Bowie album to chart in the UK, though it had already hit the American BILLBOARD Top 200 (albeit at #196) having been issued there ahead of the UK 16th June release.
Following album releases on Deram, Philips and Mercury, having his first top 20 album must have been of some relief to Bowie and RCA with Ziggy being his fifth long player.
The album peaked at #5 in February 1973, and eventually reached Double Platinum status in the UK.
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