But the song that lyric comes from also tells us that Ziggy is 'the Naz', whatever that means, and furthermore has 'god-given ass'. In this context you could say, 'Ziggy: play guitar' – the opening line (almost) of the (almost) title song Ziggy Stardust, and probably you will get some guitar-based songs from Amazon Prime Music. Ziggy Stardust was a persona Bowie adopted during the sexy glam rock phase of his early career and also the name of his most successful album (deep breath): The Rise And fall of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars. He was a hologram, if memory serves.Īl would receive information about Beckett’s predicament of the week from a super computer called Ziggy, who he consulted via a kind of proto tablet device – this show was so ahead of its time!ĭespite it being perfectly obvious that Ziggy has been chosen as a wake word by a cabal of Quantum Leap nerds in deep cover in their development team, Amazon denies this and claims the word has been chosen based on, “identifying acoustic patterns that match the wake word,“ and that they picked “‘Ziggy’ not only because it performed well in testing, but because it’s fun and reflects Alexa’s wealth of knowledge on everything from A to Z.“Īmazon further goes on to reference David Bowie, which is a perfectly valid alternative explanation.

Aiding him in this was David Lynch and Wim Wenders regular Dean Stockwell, as Al Calavicci. That probably seemed a more inviting prospect in the early 90s than it would today. In the show, Scott Bakula – later of Enterprise and NOT a vampire as his name suggests – travelled through time as Dr Sam Beckett, righting wrongs and trying to get back to the present. Then it unfortunately got shit-canned without any element of the overarching story being resolved to any kind of satisfactory degree. Life's like that. Recently picked up for a remake/reboot/sequel which may or may not turn out to suck, Quantum Leap was an extremely good-natured sci-fi show which ran from 1989 to 1993.

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