Hermanos Calatrava - Curiosidad Del Espacio (Space Oddity in Spanish, David Bowie)

Описание: From '' Gigi L'Amoroso / Space Oddity ''
Label: Belter – 08.462, 08-462
Format: Vinyl, 7", Single, 45 RPM
Country: Spain
Released: 1974

Tracklist
A Gigi L'Amoroso
Adapted By – Gefingal
Written-By – Michaele, Lana & Paul Sebastian
B Space Oddity / Curiosidad Del Espacio
Written-By – David Bowie

Illustration – García Lorente

© 2001 K Industria Cultural, S.L.
℗ 2001 K Industria Cultural, S.L.


🎵 [SONG INFO]

"Space Oddity" is a song written and performed by David Bowie and released as a music single in 1969.
It is about the launch of Major Tom, a fictional astronaut; its title alludes to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The lyrics have also been seen to lampoon the British space programme.
The song appears on the album David Bowie (also known as Space Oddity).

The song was awarded the 1969 Ivor Novello Award, together with Peter Sarstedt's "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?".
"Space Oddity" became so well known that Bowie's second album, originally released as David Bowie in the UK (like his first album), was renamed after the track for its 1972 reissue by RCA Records, and has since become known by this name.
It was used by U2 during their 360° Tour (2009-2011).
It was played over the public address system preceding the band's arrival on stage.
In 2013, the song gained renewed popularity after it was covered by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who performed the song while aboard the International Space Station, and therefore became the first music video shot in space.

Bowie would later revisit his Major Tom character in the songs "Ashes to Ashes" and "Hallo Spaceboy".
German singer Peter Schilling's 1983 hit "Major Tom (Coming Home)" is written as a retelling of the song.

Recording and release

After Bowie's split from record label Deram, his manager, Kenneth Pitt, negotiated a one-album deal (with options for a further one or two albums) with Mercury Records and its UK subsidiary, Philips, in 1969.

An early version of the song, recorded in February 1969, had appeared in Bowie's 1969 promotional film Love You Till Tuesday.

Next he tried to find a producer. George Martin turned the project down, while Tony Visconti liked the album demo-tracks, but considered the planned lead-off single, "Space Oddity", a 'cheap shot' at the impending Space mission but because Mercury Records had already liked and agreed to the track he decided to delegate its production to Gus Dudgeon.
The track was recorded at Trident Studios in June 1969 and used the in-house session player on the song Rick Wakeman (mellotron) also of progressive rock band Yes fame, as well as Mick Wayne (guitar), Herbie Flowers (bass), and Terry Cox (drums).

It was promoted in advertisements for the Stylophone, played by Bowie on the record.
The single was not played by the BBC until after the Apollo 11 crew had safely returned; after this slow start, the song reached No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart. In the U.S, it stalled at 124.

Mogol wrote Italian lyrics, and Bowie recorded a new vocal in December 1969, releasing the single "Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola" ("Lonely Boy, Lonely Girl") in Italy, reportedly to take attention away from covers by the Italian bands Equipe 84 and The Computers.

Upon its re-release as a single in 1973, the song reached No. 15 on the Billboard Chart and became Bowie's first hit single in America; in Canada, it reached No. 16.
This was then used to support RCA's 1975 UK reissue, which gave Bowie his first No. 1 single in the UK Singles Chart in November that year.
It spent two weeks at the top of that chart.

Bowie recorded a stripped-down, acoustic version in late 1979, which was issued in February 1980 as the B-side of "Alabama Song".
The promotional video of this version debuted in the UK on Kenny Everett's New Year's Eve Show.
The 1979 recording was rereleased in 1992 on the Rykodisc reissue of Bowie's Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) album.

The B-side of the original single, "Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud", first appeared on CD on 1989's Sound + Vision.

On 20 July 2009, the single was reissued on a digital EP that featured four previously released versions of the song and stems that allow listeners to remix the song.
This release coincided with the 40th anniversary of the song and the Apollo 11 moon landing.

"Space Oddity" was featured as one of the on-disc songs in the videogame Rock Band 3 and as downloadable content in Rocksmith.
"Space Oddity" is also the credits song in the psychological thriller video game Alan Wake.

A version of the song was recorded with vocals from actress Kristen Wiig for the film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013).


🔗 [LINKS]

Available on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/3JBi7S...
Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/spac...
and Deezer:
https://www.deezer.com/us/track/68357755

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