In 1972, David Bowie was a rising singer/songwriter with a few hits to his name — songs that would later become legendary, like "Space Oddity" and "Moonage Daydream" — but he’d been largely absent from the public eye. He’d been releasing albums, to be sure, and found some kind of audience, but he wasn’t the icon we know. He wasn’t Bowie yet.
Then one night that February, in a dance hall called Toby Jug in southwest London, Ziggy Stardust was born.
