Key facts
- B side
- Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud
- Released
- 11 July 1969 ( 1969-07-11 )
- Recorded
- 20 June 1969
- Studio
- Trident , London
- Genre
- Psychedelic folk folk rock space rock
- Length
- 5 : 15 (album version) 4 : 33 (UK single edit) 3 : 26 (US single edit)
- Label
- Philips (1969 UK release) Mercury (1969 US release) RCA (1972 US reissue & 1975 UK reissue)
- Songwriter
- David Bowie
- Producer
- Gus Dudgeon
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- song
- Named after
- Space Odyssey
- Genre
- space rock
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Followed by
- Ragazzo solo, ragazza sola
- Follows
- Love You till Tuesday
- Creator
- David Bowie
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Composer
- David Bowie
- Producer
- Gus Dudgeon
- Duration
- 206
- Performer
- David Bowie
- Record label
- Mercury Records
- Tonality
- F major
- Lyrics by
- David Bowie
- Distribution format
- vinyl record
Show 8 more facts
- recorded at studio or venue
- Trident Studios
- publication date
- 1969-07-11
- inception
- 1969-06-20
- charted in
- Canadian Hot 100
- language of work or name
- English language
- title
- Space Oddity
- recording date
- 1969-06-20
- single taken from the album or EP
- David Bowie
via Wikidata · CC0
~39 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Music video "Space Oddity" on YouTube
"Space Oddity" is a song by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was first released on 11 July 1969 by Philips and Mercury Records as a 7-inch single, then as the opening track of his second studio album, David Bowie. Produced by Gus Dudgeon and recorded at Trident Studios in London, it is a tale about a fictional astronaut named Major Tom; its title and subject matter were partly inspired by the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Bowie's feelings of alienation at that point in his career. Its sound departed from the music hall of his debut album to psychedelic folk inspired by the Bee Gees; it was one of the most musically complex compositions he had written up to that point.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Space Oddity” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.