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"Space Oddity" is a song by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie. ... after years of drug addiction in the 1970s, ...
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."
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.
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 ...
In the summer of 1974, David Bowie developed a cocaine addiction. [2] Over the following two years, his addiction worsened, affecting both his physical and mental state. He recorded both Young Americans (1975) and Station to Station (1976), and filmed The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), while under the influence of the drug. [3]
Kamlet was quiet for a bit, and music could be heard playing loudly in the background. It was David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” – a version from the movie “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ...
In a bid to get ahead of this week’s controversy over Elon Musk’s reported drug abuse, SpaceX published an hour-long video of a 2017 staff meeting in which the influence of narcotics was ...
David Bowie (Space Oddity) track listing; 10 tracks. Side 1 "Space Oddity" "Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed" "Don't Sit Down" "Letter to Hermione" "Cygnet Committee"