Tonight’s mystery artist wrote a song intended to be used in a musical that was scrapped. Regardless the song was released and became quite a hit for the artist. Think you know who he might be??

There has been many a rocker who has participated in writing music for the stage and cinema. In this case our artist would also star in the production as his well know persona Ziggy Stardust.  However, David Bowie changed his mind abandoning the idea back in 1973. The song written for it they decided to give a shot on its own was  "Rebel Rebel" – completed in January 1974 and released the following month, The song was Bowie's last single in the Glam Rock style that he had been known for. According to Wikipedia, Rebel Rebel was also Bowie’s first hit since 1969 not to feature lead guitarist Mick Ronson. It goes on to say that Bowie himself played guitar on this and almost all other tracks from Diamond Dogs.

Here is tonight’s featured song with a glam David Bowie

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