#40 David Bowie, 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars' (1972)

David Bowie’s magnum opus, his fifth studio album is also his fifth entry into the list. It’s a rock opera about the titular Ziggy Stardust, an androgynous, bisexual rock star who is sent to Earth as a saviour. Kinda sounds like Bowie himself, doesn’t it? Unlike its piano-driven predecessor, ‘Hunky Dory’ (#88), this record is very much guitar-driven.