Rock’n Roll Suicide David Bowie live

performed in Japan ’n’ Roll Suicide“ is a song by David Bowie, originally released as the closing track on the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars in June 1972. Although Bowie has suggested Baudelaire as his source, the lyrics “Time takes a cigarette...“ originate with the poem “Chants Andalous“ by Manuel Machado: “Life is a cigarette / Cinder, ash and fire / Some smoke it in a hurry / Others savour it“.[1] The exhortation “Oh no, love, you’re not alone“ references the Jacques Brel song “You’re Not Alone“ (“Jef“) that appeared in the musical Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.