Rock 'n' Roll Star!

The box set chronicles the time period from David Bowie recording The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars to a BBC performance from late 1972 that features songs from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars to Hunky Dory.^[2] Many of the album's tracks had already been bootlegged or officially released on official and unofficial Bowie compilations.^[3]

The Blu-ray disc includes the 2003 5.1 mix.^[4] It also includes reproductions of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust era notebooks.^[5]

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Metacritic	84/100[6]
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The box set has been viewed favorably by various music magazines and websites such as Rolling Stone.^[11] Record Collector stated that it "underscores just what a remarkable thing Bowie achieved: this is the mortal man behind the extraterrestrial dressing, and it’s no less compelling for that."^[10] Goldmine Magazine critic Dave Thompson said in his review summary of the box set that is an "immaculately packaged five CDs-plus-Blu ray box that reaches back to early 1971 in search of the demos and doodles that would become Ziggy Stardust."^[12] The staff of Rock Cellar Magazine gave it a positive review.^[13]