Artists

Peter Murphy – lead vocals
Daniel Ash – guitar, backing vocals
David J – bass guitar, backing vocals
Kevin Haskins – drums, percussion

Written by David Bowie. Produced by John Sparrow (BBC session producer), engineered by Mike Robinson; the members of Bauhaus are also credited as producers. Recorded for the BBC Radio 1 David Jensen Show, first broadcast on 22 July 1982, and released as a single on 5 October 1982 (Beggars Banquet), backed with “Third Uncle.”

A cover of the title track from David Bowie’s 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, taken from a live BBC radio session rather than a studio recording. The late John Peel was lukewarm about the cover, saying he never fully understood its appeal, yet it still reached No. 14 in his 1982 Festive Fifty listeners’ poll. The single later appeared on the compilations The Singles 1981-1983 and Bauhaus 1979-1983, and an earlier rough demo was included on the 1998 reissue of the album Mask.

Bauhaus – Ziggy Stardust Lyrics

Ziggy played guitar
Jamming good with Weird and Gilly
And the Spiders From Mars
He played it left hand
But made it too far
Became the special man
Then we were Ziggy’s band

Ziggy really sang
Screwed up eyes and screwed down hair-do
Like some cat from Japan
He could lick ’em by smiling
He could leave them to hang
Came on so loaded man
Well hung and snow-white tan

So where were the Spiders
While the flies tried to break our balls
Just the beer light to guide us
So we bitch about his fans and should we crush his sweet hands

Ziggy played for time
Jiving us that we were voodoo
But the kids were just crass
He was the nazz, with God-given ass
He took it all too far
But boy, could he play guitar

Making love with his ego
Ziggy sucked up into his mind
Like a leper messiah
When the kids had killed the man
We had to break up the band

Now Ziggy played guitar

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Artists

Peter Murphy – lead vocals, keyboards
Paul Statham – keyboards

Written by Peter Murphy & Paul Statham. Produced by Simon Rogers. The opening track (6:47) on Love Hysteria (Beggars Banquet, March 1988).

A long, brooding opener for Peter Murphy’s second solo album, recorded with his band The Hundred Men and with a mystical streak: Last.fm tags its lyrics with references to J.G. Bennett, Gurdjieff, and Jesus. Paul Statham, formerly of B-Movie, became Murphy’s key songwriting partner on this album and several that followed. Murphy later said that some listeners were confused by the album’s lyrics.

Peter Murphy – Socrates the Python Lyrics

Today …
Your problems are not
Of blind belief
That is or means
Belief ain’t enough, belief ain’t enough
The oracle of your age
Point towards the word
Psychological

You may freeze
You may fear
You may wince
And not hear
You can sick at the heart
When I say
“God is one”
Does God the word
Make you reel
And I mean, real

But it isn’t God the father son or holy one,
But the key to your age
Get it together, and listen
With all the books
On the shelf
All the wisdom
With all the books
On the shelf
All the wisdom

Socrates Pythagorus
Yin and bloody Yang
Hatha Yoga, Omm
Bennett, Gurdjieff, Jesus
Old Testament and New
Libraries full of keys
Libraries full of keys
Where’s your lock?

Socrates Pythagorus
Yin and bloody Yang
Hatha Yoga, Omm
Bennett, Gurdjieff, Jesus
Old Testament and New
Libraries full of keys
Libraries full of keys

Bennett, Gurdjieff, Jesus
Bennett, Gurdjieff, Jesus
Bennett, Gurdjieff, Jesus …

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Artists

Peter Murphy – lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, rhythm programming
Howard Hughes – guitar, keyboards, piano, rhythm programming, backing vocals
Peter Bonas – guitar

Written by Craig Bell, Tom Herman, Scott Krauss, Peter Laughner, Dave Taylor, David Thomas & Tim Wright (of Pere Ubu). Produced by Ivo Watts-Russell, Peter Murphy, Howard Hughes & Gerry Kitchingham.

A cover of the debut single by Cleveland band Pere Ubu, recorded in 1976 and mostly remembered today as a punk-era cult classic. AllMusic singled out Peter Murphy’s version as a “fierce rip” and the most noteworthy track on his solo debut, and a user review called it the album’s standout. The album also features his cover of Magazine’s “The Light Pours Out of Me.”

Peter Murphy – Final Solution Lyrics

The girls won’t touch me
‘Cause I’ve got a misdirection
Living at night isn’t helping my complexion
The signs all saying it’s a social infection
A little bit of fun’s never been an insurrection

Mama threw me out till I get some pants that fit
She just won’t approve of my strange kind of wit
I get so excited, always gotta lose
Man that send me off
Let them take the cure

Don’t need a cure
Need a final solution

Buy me a ticket to a sonic reduction
Guitars gonna sound like a nuclear destruction
Seems I’m a victim of natural selection
Meet me on the other side, another direction

Don’t need a cure
Need a final solution

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