David Bowie Space Oddity

Original music video for the david bowie song space oddity from bowie s promotional film love you till tuesday originally released in 1969 and re release.

David bowie space oddity. David bowie the space oddity 2019 mix map. Major tom is a fictional character created by david bowie for this song in 1969. This was a year after stanley kubrick. His first ever hit single the super topical space oddity had scored on the back of the moon landing that summer and so distinctive an air did it possess that for a moment its maker really did seem capable of soaring as high as major tom.

It is about the launch of major tom a fictional astronaut who becomes depressed during an outer space mission. Supposedly released to coincide with the apollo 11 moon landing it appears on the album space oddity. When david bowie s second album appeared in late 1969 he was riding high. Official video for space oddity by david bowie.

That same year marked the first moon landing so space was in. Http bit ly 2lo9yqo on 2 february 1969 david bowie went in to willesden s morgan studios to. It was first released as a 7 inch single on 11 july 1969 before appearing as the opening track of his second studio album david bowie it became one of bowie s signature songs and one of four of his songs to be included in the rock and roll hall of fame s 500 songs that shaped rock and roll.