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"Space Oddity" tells the story of an astronaut named Major Tom, the first of Bowie's famous characters. [17] Major Tom is informed by Ground Control that a malfunction has occurred in his spacecraft; but the astronaut does not get the message. [17] He remains in space "sitting in a tin can, far above the world", [18] preparing for his lonely ...
Actor William Shatner released a cover in 2011 on the space-themed album Seeking Major Tom. Apoptygma Berzerk released an EP in 2013 titled Major Tom that contains a cover and several remixes. [30] The outsider artist The Space Lady also covered the song on the 2013 release "Major Tom/Radar Love". [31]
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."
The album was released in the UK under the same eponymous title as Bowie's 1967 debut, a move Trynka calls "bizarre". [26] [27] The original UK cover artwork featured a facial portrait of Bowie taken by British photographer Vernon Dewhurst, exposed on top of a work by Hungarian artist Victor Vasarely with blue and violet spots on a green ...
Tom Petty’s been gone for seven years, but he seems as ubiquitous as ever in 2024. The concert film Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party, directed by Cameron Crowe and aired on MTV just once in ...
It was released on vinyl and CD in 1995, ... "Major Tom 2000" (Ground Control vs. Major Tom) [No. 83 Germany] "Terra Titanic 2003", 2003 "Raumnot", 2003
Waits’ then-unknown girlfriend Rickie Lee Jones appears on the back cover of Blue Valentine, a year before the release of her debut album and its improbable pop hit “Chuck E’s in Love.” 1 ...
Updating a story first posted here on Aug. 7, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder has contributed a newly recorded cover of Tom Petty‘s “Room at the Top” to the TV show Bad Monkey, which ...