David Bowie landed from Mars". The "Stardust" surname was a tribute to the "Legendary Stardust Cowboy", whose record he was given during the tour. Bowie would later cover "I Took a Trip on a Gemini Space Ship" on 2002's "Heathen". "Hunky Dory" (1971) found Visconti, Bowie's producer and bassist, supplanted in both roles by Ken Scott and Trevor Bolder respectively. The album saw the partial return of the fey pop singer of "Space Oddity", with light fare such as "Kooks", a song written for his son, Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones, born on 30 May. (His parents chose "his kooky name"—he was known
David Bowie discography to the UK Albums Chart with "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" (1972), which peaked at number five. Following the success of "Ziggy Stardust", sales of "Hunky Dory" improved and it eventually peaked at number three in the UK. RCA re-released the 1969" David Bowie" under the title Space Oddity (with an updated Ziggy Stardust-era photo) and "The Man Who Sold the World", which reached numbers 17 and 26 in the UK respectively. Bowie released nine more studio albums with RCA, all of which reached the top five of the UK Albums Chart, of