After a three-year period of experimentation he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, spearheaded by the hit single " Starman " and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

" The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ( 1972 ), combining the hard rock elements of The Man Who Sold the World with the lighter experimental rock and pop of Hunky Dory, was released in June.

is an American punk rock / new wave band formed in 1972 consisting of members from Kent and Akron, Ohio.

Other rock fanzines of this period include Flash, 1972, edited by Mark Shipper, Eurock Magazine ( 1973 – 1993 ) edited by Archie Patterson and Bam Balam, written and published by Brian Hogg in East Lothian, Scotland, beginning in 1974, and in the mid-1970s, Back Door Man and denim delinquent.

In 1972 Torrence won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover for the psychedelic rock band Pollution's first eponymous 1971 album, and was nominated three other times in the same category for albums of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

She photographed the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and rock star Mick Jagger and his wife Bianca for the Sunday Times.

Italy's symphonic rock boomed in 1972, after the successes of New Trolls ' Concerto Grosso, No. 2 and Van der Graaf Generator's Pawn Hearts.

) Another strong influence on the band's final sound was Zolar X, a theatrical glitter rock band popular in the Los Angeles area circa 1972 – 1980.

In 1972, Isao Tomita's first electronic music album Electric Samurai: Switched on Rock was an early attempt at applying speech synthesis technique in electronic rock and pop music.

Bowie in a 1972 interview while noting that other artists described as glam rock was doing different work said " I think glam rock is a lovely way to categorize me and it's even nicer to be one of the leaders of it ".

In the UK the term glitter rock was most often used to refer to the extreme version of glam pursued by Gary Glitter and his support musicians the Glitter Band, who between them achieved eighteen top ten singles in the UK between 1972 and 1976.

Another notable film in this period was the short rock music performance film Three Directions In Australian Pop Music ( 1972 ), which featured in-concert colour footage of three of the most significant Melbourne rock acts of the period, Spectrum, The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band and Wendy Saddington.

This part of the culture was initiated by Kool DJ Herc in 1972 using breaks from James Brown, The Incredible Bongo Band and English rock group Babe Ruth in his block parties.

Billie Joe Armstrong ( born February 17, 1972 ) is an American rock musician and occasional actor, best known as the lead vocalist, main songwriter, and guitarist for the American punk rock band Green Day, which he co-founded with Mike Dirnt.

* 1972: Bikinis y rock

* Ikhnaton is referenced in the title of a section of the epic progressive rock song " Supper's Ready " by the English rock band Genesis on their album Foxtrot ( 1972 ).

" Norman analyzed its poor reception in a 1972 interview: " It was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.

In June 1972 Norman was one of the featured performers at " probably the high-water mark of the Jesus Movement ", Explo ' 72, the " Jesus Woodstock ", " Godapalooza ", or " Godstock ", which attracted 80, 000 young people to the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, On June 17, the final night of Explo ' 72, with " the thousands who showed up included everything from short-hairs out of conservative Bible colleges to hair-to-your-waist devotees of Larry Norman, Christian rock, and the Jesus People ".

Although his first single, " Gypsy "/" Misty Mountain " was released in 1972, Otway shot to fame on the back of punk rock and a gymnastic performance on The Old Grey Whistle Test.

* 1972 – Sebnem Ferah, Turkish singer and musician

* 1972 – JR Richards, American singer-songwriter, and musician ( Dishwalla )

* 1972 – Nicke Andersson, Swedish singer-songwriter, musician, and composer ( The Hellacopters The Solution, The Hydromatics, and Imperial State Electric )

* 1972 – Giannis Papaioannou, Turkish-Greek musician and composer ( b. 1913 )

Göran Bror Benny Andersson () ( born 16 December 1946 ), known professionally as Benny Andersson, is a Swedish musician, composer, former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA ( 1972 – 1983 ), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia !.

* 1972 – Matt Slocum, American musician ( Sixpence None the Richer )

* 1972 – Steven Wiig, American actor and musician

* 1972 – Anders Odden, Norwegian musician

* 1972 – Rob Thomas, American musician ( Matchbox Twenty )

* 1972 – Lee Morgan, American jazz musician ( b. 1938 )

* 1972 – Seo Taiji, Korean musician ( Sinawe )

* 1972 – Amon Tobin, Brazilian musician

* 1972 – Craig Jones, American musician ( Slipknot )

* 1972 – Rodney MacDonald, Canadian politician and musician

* 1972 – Mindy Smith, American singer-songwriter and musician

* 1919 – Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American musician ( d. 1972 )

* 1972 – Greg Page, Australian musician and actor ( The Wiggles )

* 1972 – Devin Townsend, Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Strapping Young Lad and Front Line Assembly )

* 1972 – Közi, Japanese singer-songwriter and musician ( Malice Mizer and Eve of Destiny )

* 1972 – Simon Jones, English singer and musician ( The Verve and The Shining )

* 1972 – Jaret Reddick, American musician ( Bowling For Soup and People on Vacation )

* 1972 – Melissa Auf der Maur, Canadian musician ( Hole )

* 1972 – Marc Gunn, poet, podcaster, and musician ( Brobdingnagian Bards )

* 1972 – Sharkey Bonano, American jazz musician ( b. 1904 )

* 1972 – Corin Tucker, American musician ( Sleater-Kinney )