--- title: David Bowie's Isolated Vocal Track for "Ziggy Stardust": Listen description: Hear the iconic artist's vocal take canonical: https://time.com/3024625/david-bowies-isolated-vocal-track-for-ziggy-stardust-will-give-you-chills/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-23T18:21:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:18:16.015Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: David Bowie's Isolated Vocal Track for "Ziggy Stardust": Listen og:description: Hear the iconic artist's vocal take og:url: https://time.com/3024625/david-bowies-isolated-vocal-track-for-ziggy-stardust-will-give-you-chills/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: David Bowie's Isolated Vocal Track for "Ziggy Stardust": Listen twitter:description: Hear the iconic artist's vocal take twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # David Bowie’s Isolated Vocal Track For 'Ziggy Stardust' Will Give You Chills by [NME](https://time.com/author/nme/) ## NME Jul 23, 2014 6:21 PM UTC by [NME](https://time.com/author/nme/) ## NME Jul 23, 2014 6:21 PM UTC _This post is in partnership with_ [NME](www.nme.com). Thanks to [Brain Pickings ](http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/07/16/david-bowie-vocal-track-ziggy-stardust/)for posting the isolated vocal for David Bowie’s ‘Ziggy Stardust.’ It’ll give you goosebumps… and make you even more excited for the upcoming [“new music”](http://www.nme.com/news/david-bowie/78577) announced this week. **More from NME:** [Courtney Love says production on Kurt Cobain biopic will begin in ‘next 12 months’ ](http://www.nme.com/news/nirvana/78736#TzzjTMd8Uv4cKP7S.99) **More from NME:** [Metallica’s Lars Ulrich says Noel Gallagher inspired him to quit cocaine ](http://www.nme.com/news/metallica/78732#HqPovTKXtxlDJsKQ.99) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3024625/david-bowies-isolated-vocal-track-for-ziggy-stardust-will-give-you-chills/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3024625/david-bowies-isolated-vocal-track-for-ziggy-stardust-will-give-you-chills/"},"headline":"David Bowie’s Isolated Vocal Track For 'Ziggy Stardust' Will Give You Chills","datePublished":"2014-07-23T18:21:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:18:16.015Z","description":"Hear the iconic artist's vocal take","url":"https://time.com/3024625/david-bowies-isolated-vocal-track-for-ziggy-stardust-will-give-you-chills/","keywords":["Music","David Bowie topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NME","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nme/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3024625/david-bowies-isolated-vocal-track-for-ziggy-stardust-will-give-you-chills/","name":"David Bowie’s Isolated Vocal Track For 'Ziggy Stardust' Will Give You Chills"}}]}] ```