David Bowie introduced the Rock World to Ziggy Stardust during a concert on this night in 1972 in Aylesbury, UK. The album featuring the character and title song, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,  would get its UK release five months later, but Bowie had been working on material for the release since November of '71.

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on January 29 include...

 

1944 Early Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham born.

1947 Uriah Heep founding lead singer David Byron is born David Garrick.

1948 Bill Kirchen (aka Commander Cody of the Lost Planet Airmen) is born in Bridgeport, CT..

1952 Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone (Erdelyi) is born in Hungary.

1961 Queensryche bassist Eddie Jackson is born.

1961 Bob Dylan meets Woody Guthrie.

1964 Beatles record German vocals for I Want to Hold Your Hand, She Loves You and Can't Buy Me Love in s Paris studio.

1967 Jimi Hendrix and the Who play the Seville Theatre in London. Future Queen guitarist Brian May attends the concert.

1968 Jim Morrison gets into an altercation with a security guard after a Doors set at a Las Vega club and is charged with public intoxication and trespassing.

1969 Steve Winwood leaves Traffic, forming Blind Faith with Eric Clapton a week later.

1979 Emerson, Lake and Palmer break-up.

1979 A 16 year-old kills two and wounds nine outside a school in San Diego and tells authorities she did if because 'I Don't like Mondays', inspiring the song of that title from the Boomtown Rats.

1983 Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks marries Kim Anderson in LA home.

1989 Billy Joel sings the National Anthem before Super Bowl XXIII

1992 Blues legend Willie Dixon dies of heart failure at 76.

1998 Paul Simon musical The Capeman opens on Broadway.

2010 Neil Young receives MusiCares Person Of The Year honor in LA.

2010 Peter Frampton joins Gov’t Mule on three songs at Taft Theater in Cincinnati…