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David Bowie played a huge role in Chris Hadfield's 'Space Oddity' cover from orbit being re-uploaded to YouTube after it was removed by the site for copyright reasons
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A revised version of David Bowie's Space Oddity was recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station. It is the first known music video recording done in space.
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David Bowie released the album Space Oddity nine days before the Apollo moon-landing. It became the unofficial theme of that historic event.
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Chris Hadfield (the first Canadian to walk in space and one time commander of the ISS) recorded the first music video in space. Before he handed over command of the ISS in May 2013, he paid tribute to David Bowie by recording his version of Space Oddity.
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David Bowie's "Space Oddity" has been made into a childrens book
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BBC delayed the release of David Bowie's song Space Oddity due to the Moon Landing
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that after Chris Hadfield's cover of "Space Oddity" from the ISS was removed from Youtube, David Bowie signed the rights to the song over to him so the video would stay up.
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Actor William Shatner has put out three albums of spoken-word music in the past ten years, with covers of Space Oddity, Bohemian Rhapsody, and Iron Man, as well as his own original prose-poetry.
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During the Falcon Heavy Launch, David Bowies "Space Oddity" and "Life on Mars?" were looping on the sound system of Tesla Roadster who carried Starman, who was also named after one of Bowies songs.
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William Shatner has 5 albums of him covering songs like Bohemia Rhapsody, Space Oddity, and Iron Man, using just his spoken voice. It's..well. Very Shatner.
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In the original music video of the late David Bowie's "Space Oddity", Major Tom doesn't die, but instead is undressed by angels who he then proceeds to have a three-way with.
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Chris Hadfield didn't only record one song(Space Oddity), but a whole album aboard the ISS, Space Sessions : Songs from a Tin Can.
I learned that David Bowie's "Space Oddity" was released as a single ten days *before* Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon on July 21, 1969. - source
In addition to his solo work and as a member of Yes, Rick Wakeman was also a prolific session musician, performing by his estimate on 2,000 songs, including David Bowie's "Space Oddity" and "Life on Mars". - source
Space Oddity" is the first music video filmed in space
Most of the songs on David Bowie's second album, re-released as Space Oddity were written in the kitchen of an early girlfriends house in Beckenham, London, where he briefly lived. - source
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The character of Major Tom in David Bowie's "Space Oddity" had his story told over several decades by multiple artists, and ended in Bowie's last music video, "Blackstar".
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David Bowie made an italian version of Space Oddity to compete in the italian market.
In 1969 future Yes member Rick Wakeman played a Mellotron keyboard on David Bowie's "Space Oddity," being paid only £9.
David Bowie's 1969 single “Space Oddity,”was broadcast by the BBC during its coverage of the Apollo 11 launch and lunar landing.
The BBC used David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' for its Apollo 11 moon landing coverage
Peter Schilling's song Major Tom is the continuation of the story of David Bowie's character Major Tom, who he sang about in three songs including Space Oddity.
