Posted on 08/28/2011 2:23:57 PM PDT by Shalmaneser
David Bowie's "Space Oddity": The Children's Book [PDF]
(Excerpt) Read more at kolbisneat.com ...
Sniff. Now I’m going to be humming that song all day. Not sure I’d call it a children’s book...
Very nice find, thanks.
Did you catch the Notice of Legalness?
One of my favorite songs!
But geesh! way to make a kid go to sleep depressed!
Dont make Ziggy Stardust into a book too!
Original 1969 Video: complete with cheap production values (Brit style), and pre-fixed Brit teeth on David Jones/Bowie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o
And VERY 1969.
>Dont make Ziggy Stardust into a book too!
Don’t you want to see the spiders’ from Mars? ;)
The sequel;
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x11svu_david-bowie-ashes-to-ashes_music
At the time it was the most expensive video ever produced.
Even the Germans get in on it;
Major Tom (Coming Home) Peter Schilling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG7OzvSMBA
This thread doesn’t have everything Major Tom related but all you’ll ever need.
What I'd really like to see is "Suffragette City".
Yeah, my second time through. That was really funny.
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