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David Bowie (commonly known as Space Oddity) [a] is the second studio album by the English musician David Bowie, originally released in the United Kingdom on 14 November 1969 through Mercury affiliate Philips Records. Financed by Mercury on the strength of "Space Oddity", the album was recorded from June to October 1969 at Trident Studios in ...
"Space Oddity" has appeared on numerous best-of lists. In a 2000 list compiling the 100 greatest rock songs, VH1 placed "Space Oddity" at number 60. [119] In 2012, Consequence of Sound included it in their list of the 100 greatest top songs of all time, ranking it number 43. [120] In lists ranking the greatest songs of the 1960s, NME ranked ...
The song opens with acoustic Asus2 and D9 chords. This repeats until the song enters the main structure, a new beat with guitars and harmonica. [4] This part of the song mainly switches between C and F, but occasionally uses other chords as well. [5]
In "Space Oddity", from the album David Bowie (1969, later retitled Space Oddity), Major Tom's departure from Earth is successful and everything goes according to plan.At a certain point during the travel ('past one hundred thousand miles'), he claims that "he feels very still" and thinks that "my spaceship knows which way to go" and proceeds to say: "Tell my wife I love her very much."
Five Years (1969–1973) is a box set by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, released in September 2015.The period of Bowie's career from 1969 to 1973 is summarised over twelve discs and thirteen LPs.
An art rock, art pop and new wave song led by a flanged piano riff, the lyrics act as a sequel to Bowie's 1969 hit "Space Oddity": the astronaut Major Tom has succumbed to drug addiction and floats isolated in space. Bowie partially based the lyrics on his own experiences with drug addiction throughout the 1970s.
It was David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” – a version from the movie “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” the 2013 film about an ordinary man, played by Ben Stiller, who harbors delusions of ...
For its release as the third and final single from Outside in February 1996, "Hallo Spaceboy" was remixed by the duo Pet Shop Boys, who added a disco edge and lyrics referencing the Major Tom character from Bowie's "Space Oddity". The single reached number 12 in the UK and charted elsewhere across Europe.