Astronaut covers David Bowie IN SPACE!: If any living
artist were an airlock to be the first musician whose music is covered in outer
space, it would have to be David Bowie, and indeed, he was. WENN reported this
week that Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, commander of the ... moreInternational
Space Station, made a video of himself performing a (lyrically modified)
rendition of Bowie’s “Space Oddity” — a song about a catastrophic space mission
originally recorded in the wake of the 1969 moon landing — strumming an acoustic
guitar, floating effortlessly around the craft and gazing out of a window into
space on the final day of his five-month assignment on the station. "With
deference to the genius of David Bowie,” Hadfield tweeted, “here's Space Oddity,
recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World." The commander’s efforts were
not lost on Bowie, who responded to Hadfield’s tweets with a reference to
another space-centric song of his own. "Hallo spaceboy," Bowie
tweeted. Close
