David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' turns 50 today. Read how the surprise success of his '2001'-inspired hit led to his disjointed LP of the same name
Read how the surprise success of David Bowie's '2001'-inspired 1969 hit "Space Oddity" led to his disjointed LP of the same name.spent a couple of years regrouping. He sang Velvet Underground covers and rip-offs with a rock band called the Riot Squad; he started a folk trio called Feathers with his then-girlfriend Hermione Farthingale. And, inspired in part by Stanley Kubrick’s, he wrote a five-minute mini-musical about an astronaut floating off into space.
“Space Oddity” was recorded in June 1969, and it was released a month later to cash in on the imminent moon landing. A few months after that, the song became a hit, and a second album – titled, like his debut, – was recorded to showcase it. “I didn’t like the idea of capitalizing on the man on the moon,” producer Tony Visconti said years later. “I thought it was a cheap shot.”, mostly backed up by members of a band called Junior’s Eyes, is Bowie in full-on hippie-folkie mode: waving farewell to Farthingale ; waxing messianic about an outdoor concert he’d played the same weekend as Woodstock ; noticing that girls would like him better if he got a haircut .
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