On this day in 1982, Bauhaus released their cover version of David Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust”. The single peaked at number 15 on the UK Singles Chart, earning the band an appearance on the television programme Top of the Pops.
Critical reaction at the time was mixed but loud. Mat Snow, writing in NME, framed Murphy as “David Bowie imitating Jacques Brel declaiming a pastiche of Lautréamont backed by the early Banshees”—a sentence that reads more like a dare than a compliment, but captures the aesthetic tightrope Bauhaus were walking. Others were more direct. Melody Maker praised the single’s intensity, while later reviewers have been clearer. Ned Raggett at AllMusic called the “Ziggy” cover “nuclear-strength,” arguing that it made Bowie’s version sound almost restrained.
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