B y March 1970, Major Tom was becoming something of an albatross to his 23-year old earthly counterpart David Bowie. The success of his single Space Oddity, which reached No.5 in the UK and sold ...

While David Bowie was bound to be an acquired taste for some, it only took the right album for everything to click with the ...

Tony Visconti enjoyed a long and fruitful partnership with David Bowie, producing 13 of the singer’s 26 studio albums. Still, the producer made the surprising choice to turn down Bowie’s classic song ...

David Bowie's estate has prepped a special reissue of the late legend's breakthrough single "Space Oddity" in honor of its 50th anniversary. The record will be issued as part of a box set on July 12, ...

As the follow-up to David Bowie’s first hit “Space Oddity,” the album known as “The Man Who Sold the World” is itself an oddity in the David Bowie canon. With dark, surreal lyrical themes and music ...

Mountain Stage recently announced the release of a compilation album due out April 19 from Old Boy Records, with “Space Oddity” as the first single. Live On Mountain Stage: Outlaws and Outliers is in ...

Not every rock legend had the meteoric rise to fame of Jimi Hendrix or Led Zeppelin. In the case of David Bowie, the great songwriter-performer started so young he was bound to need more time find his ...

David Bowie's single 'Space Oddity' has been turned into a children's book. The lyrics from the 1969 track have been illustrated by Canadian graphic designer Andrew Kolb and a digital copy of the book ...

A Stanley Kubrick sci-fi classic inspired David Bowie to create one of his greatest hits, showing how film shaped the sound ...

As the follow-up to David Bowie’s first hit “Space Oddity,” the album known as “The Man Who Sold the World” is itself an oddity in the David Bowie canon. With dark, surreal lyrical themes and music ...

David Bowie’s third album — the follow-up to his breakout hit “Space Oddity” — was a commercial failure when it arrived in 1970. Its gothic, Nietzchean themes eluded the mainstream. But The Man Who ...