The Government contended that trustees of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Central States Pension Fund, influenced by members of organized crime, enabled Allen Glick to borrow $87.75 million to buy and remodel the Stardust and Fremont casinos in 1974.
Warner, who influences five of the committee's 24 votes, said the FA's bid lacked "stardust" and had "lightweight" representatives.
And, of course, we know Ziggy Stardust was an immense influence on rock music.
And the Stardust needed considerable work.
"I wanted to de-violence the look of Clockwork Orange and evoke the mystery of Japanese kabuki and Noh theatre," David Bowie later said of the stylistic influences behind Ziggy Stardust, his first alter-ego.
Bowie later acknowledges Kemp as an influence on the creation of Ziggy Stardust.
More recently, Willie Nelson recorded a crystalline version for 1976's "The Sound in Your Mind" (included now as a bonus track to Willie's "Stardust," which Dylan told AARP was a direct influence on "Shadows in the Night") and in 2007 became the centerpiece of a song cycle about California by none other than Brian Wilson.
Apes and Androids are from New York, and they're like Ziggy Stardust meets Queen, but there are so many other influences throughout the record: plastic soul, Arabian - anything goes.
Additionally, Pink Floyd's The Wall and David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972) are noted as major influences for the album, which is especially evident when comparing the album's opening track, "The End"., to the first tracks on The Wall, "In the Flesh?", and on Ziggy Stardust, "Five Years".
Nothing new opened on the Strip in 1985, for example, but the Boyd Group's purchase of the Stardust can be said to mark the end of organized crime's direct influence in casino ownership in Las Vegas a major milestone, to be sure.
