Originally Posted by Screen13

Bowie's Man of Words-Man of Music/Man Who Sold the World era was a time of fine songs that seriously missed the charts with only one big hit in there. In fact, I'm sure many have marked him as a one hit wonder with "Space Oddity" for a long time before Ziggy played guitar. "Starman" was the song that suggested that he was going to be around for a while, although Hunky Dory was a cult hit in it's original Pre-Ziggy run.