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1. The pianist is Mike Garson.

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2. Jul 22,  · On July 22nd, , David Bowie finally released his new single, what is arguably his magnum opus, the brilliant ‘Life On Mars’. Despite the track featuring on the album Hunk Dory almost two years prior, the world was happy to receive the new release for one of the greatest songs that Bowie ever masterminded.

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3. The last line in the chorus, “Is there life on Mars,” can be seen as a very clever reference to Orson Welles’s broadcast of War of the Worlds. The show was made famous for causing an actual public panic because of its realistic newscasts describing an alien invasion.4/5(64).

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4. "Life on Mars?" is a song by David Bowie first released in on the album Hunky Dory. The song—which BBC Radio 2 later called "a cross between a Broadway.

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5. The BBC television series, Life On Mars, was named after this song, while its sequel, Ashes to Ashes, was also named after the Bowie song of the same name. Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong has said he would like this song to be played at his funeral.

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6. David Bowie Lyrics. "Life On Mars?" It's a god-awful small affair. To the girl with the mousy hair. But her mummy is yelling, "No!" And her daddy has told her to go. But her friend is nowhere to be seen.

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7. David appears to be orchestrating a symphony right on my hi fi. when David bowie came out with his new sound no one had ever heard anything like it. To this day his sound is distinct and different. David bowie has been a constant chameleon of sound never shy of matching the part with his costumes/5(74).

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8. Jan 10,  · “Life on Mars?” is an enigmatic song with its origins in chanson —the lengthy, lyric-driven and often melancholy songs of France—and a definite eye on both middle-of-the-road balladry and the latest developments in music in the early s.

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9. Mar 20,  · The same happens for David Bowie songs, and in particular for Life on Mars: one of the most “cryptic” songs written by the Thin White Duke. It’s on America’s tortured brow That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow Now the workers have struck for fame.

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