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Song · 1969 · Psychedelic folk

Space Oddity

1969

★ 8.2 editorial score

Released five days before Apollo 11 launched, with a children's Stylophone buzzing under an astronaut who never comes home.

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David Bowie (Space Oddity)

Genre

Psychedelic folk Space rock Progressive rock Rock

Subject

Space travel Isolation

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“It is useful to distinguish among four factors which give importance, urgency, and inevitability to the advancement of space technology. The first of these factors is the compelling urge of man to explore and to discover, the thrust of curiosity that leads men to try to go where no one has gone before.”

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