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"Starman" is a song by the English musician David Bowie. It was released on 28 April 1972 by RCA Records as the lead single of his fifth studio album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars .
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"Star Guitar" is 127 beats per minute and in the key of F major. [2] It contains a four measure-long acoustic guitar sample from the beginning of the David Bowie song, "Starman", [3] hence the name, "Star Guitar".
David Bowie wrote "The Prettiest Star" as a love song for Angie Barnett, reputedly playing it down the telephone as part of his proposal to her on Christmas 1969. [1] [2] [3] Following the release of his second studio album David Bowie (Space Oddity), it was the only new song he wrote over the winter of 1969. [4]
Bowie composed the song with multi-instrumentalist Brian Eno (pictured in 2008), who had the word heroes in mind for the initial chord sequence.. After completing his work co-producing Iggy Pop's Lust for Life (1977) and various promotional events, David Bowie spent a few weeks devising ideas and concepts with multi-instrumentalist Brian Eno for his next studio album. [1]
David Bowie’s handwritten lyrics to pop classic Starman have gone under the hammer for more than £200,000 at auction. ... In 2019 the first demo of Bowie singing Starman sold for £51,000 after ...
"Heroes" [a] is the twelfth studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 14 October 1977 through RCA Records.Recorded in collaboration with the musician Brian Eno and the producer Tony Visconti, it was the second release of his Berlin Trilogy, following Low, released in January the same year, and the only one wholly recorded in Berlin.
David Bowie: Finding Fame, also known as David Bowie: The First Five Years, is a 2019 British documentary written and directed by Francis Whately. [3] The film explores a period of David Bowie's career starting in 1965, around the time he dropped his stage name of Davie Jones in favor of Bowie, to 1973, when he dropped the Ziggy Stardust persona.