That's right! I experienced all this what you wrote! There was nothing comparable! " All you pretty things" and " Starmann" were my favourites! Heroes too as well as the German version " Helden"😎
It’s a passing day today Friday, November 19. The man who shot this video for David Bowie, Mick Rock has died today. Mick Rock has did tons of work for many different artists David Bowie, Queen, Iggy Pop etc. He was known to many as “the man who shot the 70s” but I’m sure he was so much more. It’s good to realize and learn about the people behind such great masterpieces such as this besides the artist who wrote and preformed them.
@@Gina231329 Maybe you have different musical tastes, it isn't a problem. A song can be boring or very interesting to listening, it depends on who listens to it.
My older brother, the family intellectual, was a huge Bowie fan. I remember hearing this and other Bowie songs echoing through out our house over and over again but never had much appreciation for them until now, 50 years later. I regret not paying more attention to the genius my brother was tapping into behind his bedroom door.
Older siblings know. One friend’s older sister turned me on to Pink Floyd. Another’s older brothers introduced us to Steely Dan. I was the older sister listening to Bowie, the Tubes, Sabbath, etc., while my younger sister stole my Hotel California, Breakfast in America, and Foreigner albums (no longer in regular play on my turntable, but still appreciated). She tried to nick The Police’s early albums from me, too. I can’t speak about what she did with my unwrapped (for over 4 decades) second vinyl of Dark Side of the moon- the only gift my dad picked out for me by himself (without mom’s help) while he was in London. 😢
I just turned 16 years old and I’m sure about one thing… Bowie will never die cause there always gonna be some people from every generations, cultures and nationality that will appreciate true art like this amazing song.
Stick with the stuff he did up to and including the album "Scary monsters super creeps." Wouldn't bother with too much in the 90s and 2000s save for a few notable tracks. Funny enough the one song that for me incapsulate Bowie in a bottle was written during this fallow period and is called the "Buddha of Suburbia" - those quintessentially quirky lyrics and driving Mick Ronson guitar. 👍
This makes me wish I was alive in 1973. Can't imagine how cool it must have been to have been part of British youth at that time! Thankfully I was raised with music and gifted with a deep appreciation for a lot of the music that precedes my existence, I will never forget all those wonderful times I sat with my mum and or my grandfather listening to the music of their youths and absolutely loving it. Queen, Bowie, Elton John and so on. All the greats of their day and time as well as all the ones of mine.
Today, january the 8th 2023, David Bowie would have turned 76. It still hurts that he is not around us anymore. A genius, a true artist and a rare soul he was. "Life on Mars?" is my favorite song of all times and I keep going back to this video several times a year, for it is so beautifully made, it fits the overall mood of the song so well. I can't even describe the feelings this majestic song gives me. From first listen, I was hooked instantly. I love this song and I love David Bowie. Hope he's in a better place now, he deserves it truly. May he be a starman waiting in the sky, knowing that he has changed the world for the best. Rest in peace, starman.
Discovered this song 50 years after its creation and it's one of the greatest pieces of music I've ever heard. 34 year old black man from Detroit. This just wasn't played in the household growing up.
@@alaindicatif8066 this song makes me sad but happy at the same time i just remember those memories when i was a little girl crying in the school bathroom and i would play this on repeat. now im almost graduating
You ever come across a tune that makes you tear up? For me this is it. My biggest regret in life is that I never got to see David in concert. A true legend.
To True .... such a Legend .... just had to celebrate by doing my tribute song to the main man on You tube ... "Life on Mars - Space Buoy" .... brilliant Bowie Fans!
My dad met Bowie through working in a recording studio. He claims he was the most polite celebrity/musician he's ever met. Complete eloquence. 🖤 RIP Bowie
Being born in the late fifties enabled me to witness the greatest nostalgic Time Machine ever, The 70's music era. You hear a song from the 70's and you remember where you were, who you was with and had no worries. A much better place to live back in the day.
This song is talking about how during times of extreme personal conflict we tend to look towards escapism, but these fictional stories only hold so much substance that ends up becoming unimportant compared to our own lives. Pretty heavy stuff.
MothmanGhost Funny how that’s exactly what’s going on during David Bowie’s different phases from Ziggy, Diamond Dogs, and The Thin White Duke. He went so heavy on his characters he lost himself and was also dealing with judgement, drug addiction, and general personal confusion.
This song muses on life, the Universe and everything... How does he cram so much into a 4 miunute pop song, whilst seeming to say so little? Genius! :)
There's a part in "Journey to the End of the Night" where the protagonist first arrives in America and gets hooked on going to the movies until he basically reaches the same conclusion you described. Whenever I hear this song I think of that.
No one can imagine how shocking and mesmerizing it was to see someone who looked like this and sounded like this in '72....it was so new, unusual and great!
Well, as it was fifty years ago, there are today people in their sixties and older who, I suppose, could well imagine the shocking and mesmerising novelty of this original pop video. On the other hand, had anyone in their eighties and nineties glimpsed this in 1973, say on one of the only three TV channels available to anyone who possessed a television in Britain, by then most households, then they would not have been so surprised. Why? Because they grew up with music hall acts and vaudeville, then the staple of British popular entertainment, with much dressing-up and buffoonery and mockery. A ninety-year-old in 1973 had been born in 1883! Bowie here, in Life On Mars?, is a pantomime character. As a child in south London, he would have been well aware of music hall legends - under the likes of which a young Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel learned their trade. Indeed, it is said that David Bowie’s idea for the “Major Tom” character in his 1969 hit song “Space Oddity” was sparked by seeing a poster advertising variety show acts as managed by one Tom Major, father of future British prime minister John Major, who was prime minister after Margaret Thatcher in the 1990s. Yes, Bowie here has burnt up the colours to paint himself as a novelty television star. The effect was dampened by the fact that probably more than half of British households in 1973 had still only a black-and-white television in the house. Colour television was so expensive that people frequently rented a television set. But to Bowie’s advantage, as there were only three TV channels available to any Briton, when his pop video was played, on Top Of The Pops only, probably, because it reached the no. 3 spot and stayed there for 3 consecutive weeks, at least one-in-three people watching TV would have watched it. Moreover! Moreover, the family gathered round the television set, the only flickering screen in the house, would have sat there agog at this pantomime character, effeminate in parts but giving way to a determined maleness, strutting very gracefully through his pop routine, such that, as they were in each other’s company, they talked about this wild character and his eccentric, expressive thoughts, however not much different in wildness and eccentricity to so many other household names in film, music or art at that time. The old stage introduction of “for your entertainment and approval” is what is effectively mockingly teased by Bowie here. A low-waist culture that comes with mass entertainment as lifestyle is the target of Bowie’s sardonic routine. Do we really want to say yes to all of it? Puffed up and fluffed up, but full of a weary resignation, Bowie takes pot shots at the exotic bird he is, at himself, the pantomime villain who represents the numbness of all-conquering mass entertainment. Even in 1973! It’s a pose by Bowie, though, too. He’s letting you know that he got there first to tell you so! On TV! And in colour! So in only a limited way did Bowie shock and mesmerise his TV audience in the ‘seventies. There were not enough colour TV sets to go round. Merely getting a colour picture was what was new and unusual, in fact. And it is a little sad to realise that perhaps this pop video was only played twice or three times over the airwaves throughout the Seventies. Hardly a recipe for shocking a nation. But the name of the game back then was to get people to take note. They remembered …. something. And then something of a mystique developed. And that’s what’s missing in the mountain of stuff that is today’s internet world, full of tiny ridiculous screens. What’s shocking is that nobody is shocked or mesmerised by anything anymore. We are lesser people for it. We are not in fact cool and easy about a certain something just because we assume that folk in ‘72 would have been so closeted in their taste and horizons that they would have died from embarrassment in the same boat. Yes, such is the desire for information and tidbits today, that it is no surprise really that no-one can imagine anymore how to be shocked and entertained.
@@g_nn018 >tearing up shit man thats gonna be so wholesome when we bring them home now im about to cry over a piece of hardware coming back to earth lmao
I've had my own battle with cancer. David Bowie was unique. Like millions of others I grieved when you passed😢 You are so deeply missed by us all😔 Rest in peace Starman 🙏🙏🙏
Could you imagine watching this guy write songs in his house. Like, he was a person who paid bills, etc. But to see how he actually put songs together, and his view point on making art, would be really crazy. My mom's first husband in the 70s partied with Bowie, actually danced together with him, and not for a second, but like hours. She said he was super down to earth and fun asf.
Totally Agree ... Mick was ace ... I wish we had never lost any of them ... the Ziggy sound is so hard to copy, I had a go on YT but at least I connected with lots of Bowie Fans.
His first few years, the glam rock era, I think he hunted to be a hit artist and was "trying to pay the bills". Once he finally made it he really did his own thing, you can see his music evolve over the years and he always kept an open ear to different music genres, even new ones. His relationship with Trent Reznor is interesting as well if you want some insight into his industrial music period (I'm afraid of Americans et al).
@@usulnet1386 That's the thing about the top artists, the ones that are always at the top. They always have an open mind, and they always find the best bits and peices of the music they grew up with and found things that the audience loved and the things they didnt and then kept evolving. IKEA does the same thing when they have a product out, they do surveys to see what products do well vs ones that dont. I feel people treat being famous as an identity in it's self rather than being famous for something they created that they loved. They see themselves as world class musicians or entertainers rather than famous people in general.
I’ve said it before but have you ever tried to hit that note when he sings the word, “Mars?” It’s beyond my range. Bowie has a deep range too. Multi talented. I usually watch this song once per day.
Hannah Dowds hi, when I come close to hitting it, then you are right, I can’t keep going and warble the word “Mars” into the other notes he goes to. He always said in interviews that he knew he couldn’t sing. I think he can really sing and had a very wide range. I love his music so much. Been listening since the early ‘70’s. Saw him preform live twice. He didn’t come to my area very often.
i'm still not over your passing. i'm still not over the fact you left us an amazing gift of a secret album you made WHILE YOU WERE DYING. when i was in cancer treatment i could barely function! love you always ~
Actually my favorite song of all time. People get confused when I say that I don't listen to it as much as other songs, but it's because this thing is for special occasions in need of this cathartic masterpiece.
Yes! I never listen to it but it is my favorite also. i tend to like his ballads so Rock N Roll Suicide, Bewley Brothers, Lady Grinning Soul and We Are The Dead are some of my likes by Bowie. Beautiful piano work by Rick Wakeman.
@ we defo gonna make it to Mars before 2060 like? There going to the moon in 2024 and nasa even said once they have landed on the moon they are going to Mars and don’t forget Elon musks main goal is to land on Mars and he said we are expected to in 2034. it’s not a case of will it happen it’s a case of when will it happen
I swear to god, this is the best rock song ever. Unique melody and harmony, modulations, Mick Ronson's guitar intermezzo, countermelody after the refrain, finale, everything perfect.
@@PamelaFigueroa-p6n Happy Heavenly Birthday to your beloved sister. I watched several Bowie concerts on my 64th birthday this year. He was an amazing soul. May they both rest in peace.🦋
A brilliant & Amazing Man ... Totally agree ... Absolutely ... and then I try to cover a few songs as Space Boy . on YT ... hahahaha .... what a laugh.
yes, Rick Wakeman on keys. if you haven't watched him talking about it.. it's worth a watch.. esp. the bit about how bowie's chord progressions are different from the norm :-)
David was an extremely gifted song writer. Self taught- pure talent and force of will. He hammered out this song on the piano (hence the interesting chord changes) but got Rick Wakeman to do the actual recording to sound more polished.
Just watched moonage daydream and had to come back to this. I feel like David Bowie is something I will never quite understand, and yet it doesn’t let me go
Well, it's a little late for that (The rover sings happy birthday) but it could be the first one we hear on Mars. After which, we would finally answer its question
I worship Bowie, have original LPs of everything he released. But Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground was the original prototype of an "art-musician". Bowie constantly gave them praise throughout his career for making him who he was.
To True .... such a Legend .... just had to celebrate by doing my tribute song to the main man on You tube ... "Life on Mars - Space Buoy" .... brilliant Bowie Fans!
Probably one of the best examples of deliberately overexposing the image for an ethereal effect, blending Bowie’s skin into the blank background. Absolutely iconic music video
an asteroid near Mars, you mean. We should get a star named ziggy stardust, the brightest and strongest one that we can't see, that's how far away into the celestial body it should be.
David Bowie's timeless masterpiece of empathy for "the girl with the mousy hair" which tells the story of that mousy haired girl being stood up for her date at the theatre... and deciding to stay for the movie, fails miserably at her attempt to lose herself in the film... a now completely unbelievable love story that she can only find disdain for as she sits alone in a theatre full of date night couples which leaves her reliving the advice given to her by the parents, whom she now dreads having to face at the end of her "night out"... Bravo to David Bowie for all the firsts and many of the only's he created. A true genius... responsible for every ground breaking musical genre to come in the next three decades following his first album release... for all the mousy haired girls like me.
I am crying like if a relative have passed away. This man and his music is such a big part of my life. Even though I was born in 1987. I remember playing with dads record collection as a kid listening to Bowies records. I found comfort in his music and persona through highschool and college. Because.. well.. I also felt like I were an alien from Mars. Fare well, my dear David. The stars will look very different this evening.
+En Person Understandable. One of the last of the greats, We lost Freddy far to early, now David, only Elton is left. They define an era, hell, they created an era. It has not been a good few years, so many greats passing on, Lee, Pratchett, Hoskins, Moore.
2023 wow! When I was a teenager.... this was released! Older friends played this for me me on vinyl... it blew my mind... it still does. Masterclass in majestic pop music made by proper MUSICIANS! Artists
Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the Big Bang effect that allegedly started this universe was actually this song that had somehow travelled back 14 billion years in time to kick the whole thing off.
I am a university student in japan, far from England where David Bowie was born. However, his great music still moves my young Herat even in this day and age. I will study hard to create the world that should exist with his great message.
A brilliant & Amazing Man ... Totally agree ... Absolutely ... and then I try to cover a few songs as Space Boy . on YT ... hahahaha .... what a laugh.
I remember, sitting in my mum´s room, I was about 12, watching music channel, I was about to leave the room when suddenly this song was on. I just sat on the floor in the front of the telly and was hypnotized and I couldn´t understand what is going on. That day I discovered Ziggy and my live has completely changed.. Thank you, David.
There are good songs, there are great songs and then there's this. Seriously. I could study music my entire life and I doubt I'd ever create anything approaching this. Almost 50 years old and still as unique, one of kind and powerful as ever. That's talent that can't be bought or taught. He was 24. 24!!
This song is perfect for every mood you are in, wether you are happy or sad. In my case, it makes me think of my dog. He passed away three weeks ago. I love you dude.
👽 In the afterlife, Mars has spirits for all living things on Earth, but Venus wants to fake it by making us see colors like a butterfly in a dream to think it's the 5th dimension. 👽
I believe it was Chistmas 73 I got this lp as a gift. I was 19. Upstairs in my room listening and gazing at the album cover in amazement. Not at all like anything I'd ever heard and I loved most of his songs immediately. I read that Bowie released the same LP around 1962 and it was so far ahead of it's time it failed miserably. Then about 10 years later we were ready to embrace it. It took us that long to catch up. I respect him for being an ever evolving singer/song writer and musician refusing to glide along then fade from view like so many rock bands.
1962 is too early... he was only 15 and still in school. He did start playing in bands and recording singles soon after, and his first album was released in 1967. None of that early stuff really launched his career, but it's interesting to listen to now and see how he experimented and learned his trade. His first hit (Space Oddity) was in 1969, when he was 22. And this was 1971, when he was 24. So he did get started young, but not THAT young.
My grandad is the biggest David Bowie fan I know, and this is his all time favourite song. When I asked him what he thought the meaning of the song was, he told me he personally believes it’s about a young girl falling pregnant and how the world has turned against her after she reveals this information to her mum and dad. And that her life becomes miserable with everyone doubting her and everything going wrong for her. To the point where she doesn’t want to be on this planet, she just wants to be on an entirely different planet away from everything. Hence the name life on Mars Edit: Been about 6 months since I commented this and I find it interesting how music and art in general can be viewed in so many different lights and interpreted in so many different ways. I feel that maybe my grandad thinks the song is about a young teen girl who falls pregnant is maybe because my mother was 16 when she had me. And it’s most likely he reflected his own experience of feeling with that into his own interpretation of the song. Idk I just find that really interesting. Art and music are amazing and no one should tell you your interpretation is wrong cause that’s how you see it, that is the truth to you as the viewer, and no one should ever be able to take that away.
I view it the first part as a sort of look at the news from the eyes of a teen. People die, politicians/pigs squabble, business as usual. I view the second as a much older version of that same person reliving it through art. I view the "Is there life on mars?" question as a sort of "when will anything ever change?" in general.
@@Forcoy Same. I think the purity of a child's mind in it's naivity would question the mess of human affairs. The lyrics "is there life on Mars?" seems to be an ode to either wanting to escape this reality, transcend it/ change things, live somewhere peaceful or even to possibly start over again.
+@ilikemilk781: It's about a girl going to the movies and being disappointed by how boring the movie is, thus denying her the entertainment and escape she wanted.
He's just observing how the world has been for at least 40 years because it's just as relevant today 2024 as back in the 70s. It's a wish for escape and a chance to start fresh.
Unreal that Hunky Dory came out the year I was born. At 53, I still love that album and of course, I love Life on Mars. It’s timeless; extra impressive for pop/rock/alternative.
Not perfect English. But, I completely understand. Since he died, the whole world has turned to shit. I'm reaevaluting my Catholic status, I'm getting older... 😐
I am very young. And it makes me incredibly sad that I didn’t even know who David Bowie was before he passed. I love this music more than I have loved any music on this planet. And it pains me to know that this legend is gone from all our lives. I’ll never stop listening to his music. RIP David Bowie.
Artists never really die, because their essence and spirit still shine through their works, no matter how much time has passed. David comes back to life every time you and me listen to his music...
The fabulous Davie Bowie!💯😍❤️👍Just another of his magnificent songs! Loved them all. May he be resting in peace, this great man and musical genius.🙏🌹🙏🌹
not so free; he suffered from crippling depression and other neuroses; his brother was similarly plagued by these problems and committed suicide. So not so 'free' as much as 'didn't let those things CONTROL him (mostly)'
@@empath69 well then that would be free. He surmounted those things . And given the time period he started out in he was totally free of social expectations. He was courageous and forward thinking. He wasn't plagued or crippled by these these things at all. It was a source of great sadness for him to be sure but his musicality freed him and inspired others as he too was inspired.
"Life On Mars?' is a quite gloriously no-further-questions masterpiece. Where the combination of stirring, yearning melody and vivid, poetic imagery are at once completely impenetrable and yet resonant with personal meaning.
Totally Agree ... Mick was ace ... I wish we had never lost any of them ... the Ziggy sound is so hard to copy, I had a go on YT but at least I connected with lots of Bowie Fans.
It’s still hard to imagine that he’s not here anymore. Just hearing his voice now I tear up so badly, but in the end he went doing what he wanted to do.
@COOLSAMMYJO CAT I was 11 when he died. I remember going to school and everyone was talking about it and we were all crushed. R.I.P David. You may be gone but your music will live forevermore
I remember getting up and my boyfriend’s mum telling me he’d died. At least the radio in the office was playing lots of great music (thinnest of silver linings)
and arguing with Freddie Mercury lol Love how whoever made this video went to Bowie and said, "EXPOSURE! MAXIMUM VIDEO EXPOSURE!" lol its so over exposed.
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Imagine being a teen when Bowie first came on the scene, it was so mindblowing, there was no one else even remotely like him.
Love David Bowie? You'll love a band called The Doublejumps
still isn't
That's right! I experienced all this what you wrote! There was nothing comparable! " All you pretty
things" and " Starmann" were my favourites! Heroes
too as well as the German
version " Helden"😎
Hes one of my heroes. What a bliss that was for you guys.
Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music ?
It’s a passing day today Friday, November 19. The man who shot this video for David Bowie, Mick Rock has died today. Mick Rock has did tons of work for many different artists David Bowie, Queen, Iggy Pop etc. He was known to many as “the man who shot the 70s” but I’m sure he was so much more. It’s good to realize and learn about the people behind such great masterpieces such as this besides the artist who wrote and preformed them.
:( rest in peace mick...
RIP Mick
RIP Mick
RIP MICK
He’s on mars with David Bowie 💗
In my opinion, this is one of the most beautiful songs of all time.
your opinion is shared by all
I wish I could agree. I think it’s rather boring and unpleasant. Maybe I’m just not deep-thinking enough to appreciate it 🤷🏻♀️
@@Gina231329 Maybe you have different musical tastes, it isn't a problem. A song can be boring or very interesting to listening, it depends on who listens to it.
I agree. One of my all time favourite songs
Space Oddity is.
Happy birthday David Bowie!!! He would've been 77 years old if he was still with us ❤
He died too young. Every person should see 80 years at least.
😊❤
@@jiveassturkey8849hii😊
Reading that breaks my heart :(
the last chance to read tintin, from 7 to 77 years old !
My older brother, the family intellectual, was a huge Bowie fan. I remember hearing this and other Bowie songs echoing through out our house over and over again but never had much appreciation for them until now, 50 years later. I regret not paying more attention to the genius my brother was tapping into behind his bedroom door.
Older brothers always know. I know: I'm an older brother. I was an original Bowie fan and followed him all the way to the end.
Peace
Older siblings know. One friend’s older sister turned me on to Pink Floyd. Another’s older brothers introduced us to Steely Dan.
I was the older sister listening to Bowie, the Tubes, Sabbath, etc., while my younger sister stole my Hotel California, Breakfast in America, and Foreigner albums (no longer in regular play on my turntable, but still appreciated). She tried to nick The Police’s early albums from me, too.
I can’t speak about what she did with my unwrapped (for over 4 decades) second vinyl of Dark Side of the moon- the only gift my dad picked out for me by himself (without mom’s help) while he was in London. 😢
My first concert was David Bowie. 1971, Civic Hall, Wolverhampton
❤️
Older sisters know music too y’all… mine taught me all the best 60s/70s rock
I can't stop getting excited every time I hear this perfect song. Absolute genius.
same here
same! im scared im going to get annoyed of listening to it over and over
Bowie is an occultist who channeled the Devil to write his music, he admitted it. All music stars made a deal
@@megalodonseancasey8429 sheeesh
Couldn’t agree more
Anyone else get obsessed with a song for a week or two and just play the song repeatedly and think about it all day? Yeah, that's this song right now.
Get back to us in ten years...
@@maruka1716 OK I'll get back to you in 10 years (when I'm 26 years old)
@@Void113-OwO Just saying, Bowie songs have a way of sticking with you over time.
Dam i thought it was just me...i put on loop and keep listening like an hour of it straight. At least once a day
This is so me
I just turned 16 years old and I’m sure about one thing… Bowie will never die cause there always gonna be some people from every generations, cultures and nationality that will appreciate true art like this amazing song.
I can’t explain the way this song makes me feel
In these _four_ minutes, this song makes me feel 1001 feelings
neanch'io
@@riverzin666 I see what you did there
@@creativepop8196 hehehe
I feel bad now for give that man terrifying feelings
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I’ve just discovered Bowie. Life will never be the same again
Stick with the stuff he did up to and including the album "Scary monsters super creeps." Wouldn't bother with too much in the 90s and 2000s save for a few notable tracks.
Funny enough the one song that for me incapsulate Bowie in a bottle was written during this fallow period and is called the "Buddha of Suburbia" - those quintessentially quirky lyrics and driving Mick Ronson guitar. 👍
Thanks for the heads up 😌
@@1982PRA
No problem, thank you for getting back to me. 👍
His work in the 70's was immense.
Lucky you, you’re in for an amazing adventure.
Compltely compelling to play and sing Bowie songs on YT as a one man band ... its spiritual and a priviledge.
This should be the first song played on Mars once we reach it.
Yes. Yes I agree.
OMG YES
Absolutely 🎉
They've already done it,there's a rare NASA Bootleg.
@@Name-dv4qu What is? Going to Mars? lol
This makes me wish I was alive in 1973. Can't imagine how cool it must have been to have been part of British youth at that time! Thankfully I was raised with music and gifted with a deep appreciation for a lot of the music that precedes my existence, I will never forget all those wonderful times I sat with my mum and or my grandfather listening to the music of their youths and absolutely loving it. Queen, Bowie, Elton John and so on. All the greats of their day and time as well as all the ones of mine.
One of the greatest songs ever
wow that is sad if you think that
TheDriftingsmoke It's so sad that YOU think that
@@TheDriftingsmoke loser
Understatement to greatest song ever and im gen y millennial do the math of how great it is!
Understatement to being the greatest song ever!
We love David Bowie. Today, 75 years ago, his mother probably gave us the greatest artist of all time.
This dude is dedicated, even his pfp is bowie, I suppose I cant talk mine is led zeppelin on a few of my social media accounts 🙂😂
Completely compelling to play and sing Bowie songs on YT as a one man band ... its spiritual and a priviledge.
Love on ya bro.
Is the grastest artist Of all time. Is true.
Greatest of all time .. you sure ??
Today, january the 8th 2023, David Bowie would have turned 76. It still hurts that he is not around us anymore. A genius, a true artist and a rare soul he was. "Life on Mars?" is my favorite song of all times and I keep going back to this video several times a year, for it is so beautifully made, it fits the overall mood of the song so well. I can't even describe the feelings this majestic song gives me. From first listen, I was hooked instantly. I love this song and I love David Bowie. Hope he's in a better place now, he deserves it truly. May he be a starman waiting in the sky, knowing that he has changed the world for the best. Rest in peace, starman.
Weren't we so lucky to be alive at the same time as David Bowie?!
1971
Been a Bowie fan for 51 years, seem him live numerous times in the UK and in the US! Nothing has ever come close to this guy in my life!
I heard he´s on Mars!
Happy 77th Bowie!
Discovered this song 50 years after its creation and it's one of the greatest pieces of music I've ever heard. 34 year old black man from Detroit. This just wasn't played in the household growing up.
I would panic if that was how i grew up, you could say it’s a Panic in Detroit.
David Bowie is not dead, he lives on Mars
The Final Boss
wait he’s dead!?
@@miroseyy legends never die
@@miroseyy you still does not know?
Bowie ain't dead
Goosebumps. Everytime. We strongly miss you, David Robert Jones.
@Jason Arul He died in 2016
you said his full name, you must be special
@@orsemcore @danklad Thank you for noticing. You take the time to write such a mocking comment, you must be an embittered person.
@@alaindicatif8066 this song makes me sad but happy at the same time i just remember those memories when i was a little girl crying in the school bathroom and i would play this on repeat. now im almost graduating
A fashion icon even then. Flashin' duds for '73.
This should be the first song that’s ever played on Mars. Iconic.
Reach for the Stars by will.I.am is the first song to be played on Mars
@@ste9281 shit, I thought it was happy birthday
@@ste9281 first song ever played by humans then 😂
Shame
stolen
This song is 50 years old in 2023 and here I am still thinking what a masterpiece.
It’s taken me till this year to understand what it means and I remember it being released first time around 🙏🙏🙏
My name is Sam Tyler
Actually Life On Mars? Is 53 the same age as his son the song came out in 1971 but the video was made in 1973
It was rereleased as a single post ziggy , which I did not know for a long time. So sad he is gone. 😢
You ever come across a tune that makes you tear up? For me this is it. My biggest regret in life is that I never got to see David in concert. A true legend.
Goosebumps every time I listen to it
To True .... such a Legend .... just had to celebrate by doing my tribute song to the main man on You tube ... "Life on Mars - Space Buoy" .... brilliant Bowie Fans!
I could not agree more. I wish I had seen him live. Only in my dreams.
Thank you. I was there for you that missed it. The Greek in LA, CA
me too!japanese in japan.
My dad met Bowie through working in a recording studio. He claims he was the most polite celebrity/musician he's ever met. Complete eloquence. 🖤 RIP Bowie
I definitely believe so!!! He wasn't only a great artist, but also a natural and great person ❣❣❣❣❣❣❣
Yes he is a very nice (was) kind funny man .... and musician Ive ever had the pleasure ! I’m so sad this week
It pains me that he passed away I wish he was still alive
@@ednasackeyfio5482 thank you captain obvious rip mr B would be 74
@@ednasackeyfio5482 he died today so sad
HOW CAN SOMEONE BE SO BEAUTIFUL EVEN WITHOUT EYEBROWS
and i don't even have to mention that this song is absolutely perfect and amazing
... and I don't even have to mention that you wrote a great comment. 😍
Only Bowie.
Jeffree star looks fine without them. But bowie looks better
fame
@depressed bisexual I say that because only Bowie it's hot for me hahaha. But I'm sure that there's more hot people without eyebrows.
Being born in the late fifties enabled me to witness the greatest nostalgic Time Machine ever, The 70's music era. You hear a song from the 70's and you remember where you were, who you was with and had no worries. A much better place to live back in the day.
This song is talking about how during times of extreme personal conflict we tend to look towards escapism, but these fictional stories only hold so much substance that ends up becoming unimportant compared to our own lives.
Pretty heavy stuff.
MothmanGhost Funny how that’s exactly what’s going on during David Bowie’s different phases from Ziggy, Diamond Dogs, and The Thin White Duke. He went so heavy on his characters he lost himself and was also dealing with judgement, drug addiction, and general personal confusion.
Just enjoy the songs. Dont need to anylize em
Keith Williams Why can’t you find enjoyment from analyzing a song?
This song muses on life, the Universe and everything... How does he cram so much into a 4 miunute pop song, whilst seeming to say so little? Genius! :)
There's a part in "Journey to the End of the Night" where the protagonist first arrives in America and gets hooked on going to the movies until he basically reaches the same conclusion you described. Whenever I hear this song I think of that.
No one can imagine how shocking and mesmerizing it was to see someone who looked like this and sounded like this in '72....it was so new, unusual and great!
Well, as it was fifty years ago, there are today people in their sixties and older who, I suppose, could well imagine the shocking and mesmerising novelty of this original pop video. On the other hand, had anyone in their eighties and nineties glimpsed this in 1973, say on one of the only three TV channels available to anyone who possessed a television in Britain, by then most households, then they would not have been so surprised. Why? Because they grew up with music hall acts and vaudeville, then the staple of British popular entertainment, with much dressing-up and buffoonery and mockery. A ninety-year-old in 1973 had been born in 1883! Bowie here, in Life On Mars?, is a pantomime character. As a child in south London, he would have been well aware of music hall legends - under the likes of which a young Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel learned their trade. Indeed, it is said that David Bowie’s idea for the “Major Tom” character in his 1969 hit song “Space Oddity” was sparked by seeing a poster advertising variety show acts as managed by one Tom Major, father of future British prime minister John Major, who was prime minister after Margaret Thatcher in the 1990s. Yes, Bowie here has burnt up the colours to paint himself as a novelty television star. The effect was dampened by the fact that probably more than half of British households in 1973 had still only a black-and-white television in the house. Colour television was so expensive that people frequently rented a television set. But to Bowie’s advantage, as there were only three TV channels available to any Briton, when his pop video was played, on Top Of The Pops only, probably, because it reached the no. 3 spot and stayed there for 3 consecutive weeks, at least one-in-three people watching TV would have watched it. Moreover! Moreover, the family gathered round the television set, the only flickering screen in the house, would have sat there agog at this pantomime character, effeminate in parts but giving way to a determined maleness, strutting very gracefully through his pop routine, such that, as they were in each other’s company, they talked about this wild character and his eccentric, expressive thoughts, however not much different in wildness and eccentricity to so many other household names in film, music or art at that time. The old stage introduction of “for your entertainment and approval” is what is effectively mockingly teased by Bowie here. A low-waist culture that comes with mass entertainment as lifestyle is the target of Bowie’s sardonic routine. Do we really want to say yes to all of it? Puffed up and fluffed up, but full of a weary resignation, Bowie takes pot shots at the exotic bird he is, at himself, the pantomime villain who represents the numbness of all-conquering mass entertainment. Even in 1973! It’s a pose by Bowie, though, too. He’s letting you know that he got there first to tell you so! On TV! And in colour! So in only a limited way did Bowie shock and mesmerise his TV audience in the ‘seventies. There were not enough colour TV sets to go round. Merely getting a colour picture was what was new and unusual, in fact. And it is a little sad to realise that perhaps this pop video was only played twice or three times over the airwaves throughout the Seventies. Hardly a recipe for shocking a nation. But the name of the game back then was to get people to take note. They remembered …. something. And then something of a mystique developed. And that’s what’s missing in the mountain of stuff that is today’s internet world, full of tiny ridiculous screens. What’s shocking is that nobody is shocked or mesmerised by anything anymore. We are lesser people for it. We are not in fact cool and easy about a certain something just because we assume that folk in ‘72 would have been so closeted in their taste and horizons that they would have died from embarrassment in the same boat. Yes, such is the desire for information and tidbits today, that it is no surprise really that no-one can imagine anymore how to be shocked and entertained.
We see everything now ten times or more …. and we are just not shocked. Nor even amused.
‘73, not ‘72.
@@rustshoo5068 my god. I wasn't expecting that many words.
I was 8
This song is ahead of its time. Too advanced for 1973. It doesnt sound old. It feels like today's generation can still relate.
That my friend is the art of a great lyric.
That’s the thing about timeless songs. They’ll always be relevant.
this is song way way way ahead of its time !! much like f=ma by newtons ,no gimmicks ,simple simple at its best
Too advanced for 1973? What condescending tripe! Man landed on the moon more than twenty-five years before mobile phones were commonplace.
Dude Elon musk knows how to use this song correctly for his rockets
Contender for best song ever written. It's a full 10/10, no questions.
Rest In Peace, Mars Rover Opportunity. There was certainly life on Mars, and it spoke in one’s and zero’s...
We also actually found life on Mars btw. We found large amounts of methane, which is a by-product of bio orginisms
Lena Oxton no direct observations of life yet, but indeed the methane outgassing has no known origin yet
Hang in there Oppo, help is coming.
What's nice to know is that when we get to Mars, Oppy and Spirit can be recovered along with the rest of the rovers and landers that have been lost.
@@g_nn018 >tearing up
shit man thats gonna be so wholesome when we bring them home
now im about to cry over a piece of hardware coming back to earth lmao
I've had my own battle with cancer.
David Bowie was unique.
Like millions of others
I grieved when you passed😢
You are so deeply missed by us all😔
Rest in peace Starman
🙏🙏🙏
Think about it this way: Humans have been on this planet for roughly 250,000 years. We were just damned lucky to be here at the same time as him.
@@almostfm
You are so right
Love that comment fella
Top man
👍👍
@@almostfm
We are fella
👍
I miss him dearly.
@@system3008
We all do fella
😔
David Bowie hasn’t died
He’s just made it all the way to mars
Is that where we go when we die?
He's a starman
Haha the likes are 69
Sorry not the point...
Pineapple haha Lol, nah don’t be sorry that’s funny!
@@dennisomalley4607 mYbe when we day we can go anywhere we want. Even different galaxys
Here to pay respects. Happy Bday Bowie, forever iconic.
Could you imagine watching this guy write songs in his house. Like, he was a person who paid bills, etc. But to see how he actually put songs together, and his view point on making art, would be really crazy. My mom's first husband in the 70s partied with Bowie, actually danced together with him, and not for a second, but like hours. She said he was super down to earth and fun asf.
Lol copypasta
Totally Agree ... Mick was ace ... I wish we had never lost any of them ... the Ziggy sound is so hard to copy, I had a go on YT but at least I connected with lots of Bowie Fans.
His first few years, the glam rock era, I think he hunted to be a hit artist and was "trying to pay the bills". Once he finally made it he really did his own thing, you can see his music evolve over the years and he always kept an open ear to different music genres, even new ones. His relationship with Trent Reznor is interesting as well if you want some insight into his industrial music period (I'm afraid of Americans et al).
@@usulnet1386 That's the thing about the top artists, the ones that are always at the top. They always have an open mind, and they always find the best bits and peices of the music they grew up with and found things that the audience loved and the things they didnt and then kept evolving. IKEA does the same thing when they have a product out, they do surveys to see what products do well vs ones that dont. I feel people treat being famous as an identity in it's self rather than being famous for something they created that they loved. They see themselves as world class musicians or entertainers rather than famous people in general.
@@dinklebamp4266 David Bowie
I’ve said it before but have you ever tried to hit that note when he sings the word, “Mars?” It’s beyond my range. Bowie has a deep range too. Multi talented. I usually watch this song once per day.
Yeah I try sing this song and the 'mars' bit is the hardest to do, especially when you're baritone.
32-Bit Sam yes, you don’t really appreciate what he has done vocally until you try it.
@@catherinelevison3310 True, not gonna stop me from trying to be like him.
I can hit it but not hold it
Hannah Dowds hi, when I come close to hitting it, then you are right, I can’t keep going and warble the word “Mars” into the other notes he goes to. He always said in interviews that he knew he couldn’t sing. I think he can really sing and had a very wide range. I love his music so much. Been listening since the early ‘70’s. Saw him preform live twice. He didn’t come to my area very often.
David Bowie isn’t dead, he just went to go see if there was life on Mars. He’ll be back one day, they’ll all be back one day.
Someday we'll see the Starman waiting for us in the sky
@@hankweiser5964 damn...
Him and Elvis
☠️
But he is dead doe.
i'm still not over your passing. i'm still not over the fact you left us an amazing gift of a secret album you made WHILE YOU WERE DYING. when i was in cancer treatment i could barely function! love you always ~
Actually my favorite song of all time. People get confused when I say that I don't listen to it as much as other songs, but it's because this thing is for special occasions in need of this cathartic masterpiece.
Yes! I never listen to it but it is my favorite also. i tend to like his ballads so Rock N Roll Suicide, Bewley Brothers, Lady Grinning Soul and We Are The Dead are some of my likes by Bowie. Beautiful piano work by Rick Wakeman.
Yeah, I try not to wear my favourites out too much...
This song will be probably be recommended the day we land a man on Mars.
This will be the Mars national anthem
@ Jesus Christ that’s deep
@ we defo gonna make it to Mars before 2060 like? There going to the moon in 2024 and nasa even said once they have landed on the moon they are going to Mars and don’t forget Elon musks main goal is to land on Mars and he said we are expected to in 2034. it’s not a case of will it happen it’s a case of when will it happen
16/11/2020
yeah
I’ll never forgive myself for not listening to his music before he died
Me too
Better to enjoy his work late, than never at all.
same!
But i am happy i am now. this is powerful he broke so many gender stereotypes and standards
Me too 🙌
I swear to god, this is the best rock song ever. Unique melody and harmony, modulations, Mick Ronson's guitar intermezzo, countermelody after the refrain, finale, everything perfect.
"Sir we're on a low budget all we have is some makeup and a white room"
"Just put Bowie in there and zoom in on his face it'll be fine"
Don’t forget the extra extra bright lighting
@@sophiamarie5498 they're also standing right next to the sun how could I forget
But only he could pull it off with his amazing eyes 😍
+yumi gem: There were a lot of early music videos set in empty white rooms.
They can zoom in on any part of him and I’d be more than okay w it
David Bowie was one of a kind, there will never be anyone like him, period
Facts
@@jayproductions6401 love your pfp ✨
freddie murcury
@@TheWiseCollector your kidding
@@elliehatesyou7393 no y
The next Mars rover needs to be named "Bowie."
Most definitely! 👏
Ziggy!
Better yet, that should be the name of the spaceship that takes the first humans there !
Make it happen please
YES
My sister LOVED David Bowie!!! Today would have been her 65th birthday! Listening to him is our Tribute to her!
@@PamelaFigueroa-p6n Happy Heavenly Birthday to your beloved sister. I watched several Bowie concerts on my 64th birthday this year. He was an amazing soul. May they both rest in peace.🦋
Lo😢 lamento..un abrazo
One of the greatest rock ballads. What an unworldly voice!
You might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like listening to Bowie
@@MassiveFish-hp4pmDavid Bowie
He's got ET DNA aka Hybrid , look at those eyes 💥
Next I ii be there. David and me taking sun bath 0OMNN MAARSSS
Bowie is the therapy and relaxation we all had no idea we needed
@TTFPouyi Bowie’s just amazing
@TTFPouyi my dad showed him to me when I was 10 and I just love the music
Oh so much
A brilliant & Amazing Man ... Totally agree ... Absolutely ... and then I try to cover a few songs as Space Boy . on YT ... hahahaha .... what a laugh.
One of the best songs of all time. If not the best.
+
Best is relative however it’s up there in my opinion
I prefer Absolute Beginners. It is my all time favourite song.
Imagine, wonderful world and space oddity are the best 3 songs of all time.
The first one
Absolutely stunning and timeless. Mick Ronson's string arrangement and guitar work is beyond sublime. An utter masterpiece.
Can we just appreciate that piano for a second
pretty sure thats what everyones doing
For a second? How about the rest of my life
yes, Rick Wakeman on keys. if you haven't watched him talking about it.. it's worth a watch.. esp. the bit about how bowie's chord progressions are different from the norm :-)
DEFINITELY..
David was an extremely gifted song writer. Self taught- pure talent and force of will. He hammered out this song on the piano (hence the interesting chord changes) but got Rick Wakeman to do the actual recording to sound more polished.
Just watched moonage daydream and had to come back to this. I feel like David Bowie is something I will never quite understand, and yet it doesn’t let me go
Me too 😄🥰
I saw Moonage Daydream tonight.
Same with me ❤
me too......hmmmm....not entirely impressed with the visuals,but footage of the young fans was interesting
@@christinemcateer1401 David Bowie
Should be the first song played on Mars
Edit: close enough
I really hope so.
volume 1000 so that we can hear it
@@alonelyz1981 volume 2^ side 8
And the trip starman
Well, it's a little late for that (The rover sings happy birthday) but it could be the first one we hear on Mars. After which, we would finally answer its question
This world was such a better place with David Bowie in it
Agree. It's no coincidence how the world has gone to shit since Jan 2016!
How did he write those songs? They were all over the place, but just perfectly together at the same time.
Drugs
@@billrowell2919 yep 😆
@@waynenorthspacebuoy3529 David Bowie
It's simple he's just David Bowie
He would write the song then he would cut the lines and mixed them so he would get a different perspective on the song true story
Mr. Bowie is a prototype of a pure "art-musician". You just can't compare him to anyone else. So rare and so sad he's already gone...
Unless, of course, you compare him to other great and iconic musical greats like the Beatles or Bob Dylan ! 😂😂😃
But he was intending to be an actor and had some small bit roles before he wrote great music. So he was an amazing art-musician-actor
I worship Bowie, have original LPs of everything he released. But Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground was the original prototype of an "art-musician". Bowie constantly gave them praise throughout his career for making him who he was.
Dont ever forget Peter Gabriel, the early genesis
I think the Residents were kicking around by then.
1971: 'Wow... this song is amazing!'
2022: 'Wow... this song is amazing!'
3143: 'Wow... this song is amazing!'
20123: "The hell's a song?"
"I dunno but this one's amazing!"
@@alansmithee419 😃
That’s if humanity still exists after global warming but Ik what u mean
Yeah forever
Siempre lo sera!
One of best vocal performances in modern music!
Astonishing vocal performance.
It’s a pity that the World will never see these beautiful eyes again.
Video: Am I a *freaking joke* to you?
For real tho
Which one?
ok
His eye colour was the result of him and one of his friends fighting over a girl they both liked. True fact. R.I.P. David.
I love the way the camera focuses on David's otherworldly face.
if you like this you might like my brothers music. his name is stu morris
True but not to me
Yeah
@@brandonstephens5057 ??
This song has one of the most iconic openings. That single piano note is like the man who wrote this, legendary
piano by Rick Wakeman, just found out today
To True .... such a Legend .... just had to celebrate by doing my tribute song to the main man on You tube ... "Life on Mars - Space Buoy" .... brilliant Bowie Fans!
@@fiammaviva9442Jul 9, 2015
@@waynenorthspacebuoy3529David Bowie
Rick Wakeman was like hold my beer 🍺 🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎶🎶. 👨🏻🎤
Probably one of the best examples of deliberately overexposing the image for an ethereal effect, blending Bowie’s skin into the blank background. Absolutely iconic music video
If anyone deserves a star in the sky named after him its this man. RIP.
He deserves a galaxy, RIP the legend.
is there maybe yet?
There is
Ahhem, there is! Google it please
an asteroid near Mars, you mean. We should get a star named ziggy stardust, the brightest and strongest one that we can't see, that's how far away into the celestial body it should be.
David Bowie's timeless masterpiece of empathy for "the girl with the mousy hair" which tells the story of that mousy haired girl being stood up for her date at the theatre... and deciding to stay for the movie, fails miserably at her attempt to lose herself in the film... a now completely unbelievable love story that she can only find disdain for as she sits alone in a theatre full of date night couples which leaves her reliving the advice given to her by the parents, whom she now dreads having to face at the end of her "night out"... Bravo to David Bowie for all the firsts and many of the only's he created. A true genius... responsible for every ground breaking musical genre to come in the next three decades following his first album release... for all the mousy haired girls like me.
If I remember correctly this was about the same girlfriend ‘Letter To Hermione’ was based on
@Jipwell thank you for that insight... Very interesting to know she really existed.
@@Jipwell ....a girl who, amazingly, was named Hermione.
this is what happens when you study film and industry
Peace on you, mousy haired girl
I am crying like if a relative have passed away.
This man and his music is such a big part of my life.
Even though I was born in 1987.
I remember playing with dads record collection as a kid listening to Bowies records.
I found comfort in his music and persona through highschool and college. Because.. well.. I also felt like I were an alien from Mars.
Fare well, my dear David. The stars will look very different this evening.
+En Person Me too , been crying all day ,.I am gutted
+En Person Understandable. One of the last of the greats, We lost Freddy far to early, now David, only Elton is left. They define an era, hell, they created an era.
It has not been a good few years, so many greats passing on, Lee, Pratchett, Hoskins, Moore.
same here..I was born in 85
my dad had ALL his albums..I've been so torn up. Scott Wieland now this
I agree with everything you said my friend... Bowie was more than just an artist. he was like a musical therapist for a generation.
2023 wow! When I was a teenager.... this was released!
Older friends played this for me me on vinyl... it blew my mind... it still does. Masterclass in majestic pop music made by proper MUSICIANS!
Artists
David Bowie
Fun Fact: You love this song.
Fun Fact: That’s true .
How did you know ???????
How did you frikin know?!
Nope... I’ve never heard it before😅 but I found it after Ilon Musks flying to Mars Tesla soundtrack)))
nope, i have a music project about this.
Bowie isn’t dead, he’s just solving crimes back in the 70’s
Nice reference...
Great show great reference
And he’s driving in a cortina
Wrong, he's in the 80s and he's driving a Quattro and his radio's playing Ashes to Ash - oh wait, wrong video
@@rafaelsantos7673 haha lol
When this song plays I begin to ascend into another universe
Yes I agree
Real
How many? Like 4 parallels ahead?
Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the Big Bang effect that allegedly started this universe was actually this song that had somehow travelled back 14 billion years in time to kick the whole thing off.
Same
Happy Birthday, Life on Mars!
david bowie was without any doubt the most stylish man ever
aaakc. Icon of style 💙
But his make up was in bits.
@@geraldstafford2240 no
@@allstr8peopledeservetodie10 rotten fish...because were worth it !.
Nah eltohn John probably is
I am a university student in japan, far from England where David Bowie was born.
However, his great music still moves my young Herat even in this day and age.
I will study hard to create the world that should exist with his great message.
A brilliant & Amazing Man ... Totally agree ... Absolutely ... and then I try to cover a few songs as Space Boy . on YT ... hahahaha .... what a laugh.
heart* learn to spell properly kid
@@soundwhisperer1058 Theyre literally from Japan??? 😭
Me when I try to show off people with my 3 IQ brain:
LeArN tO sPeLl Kid 🤓
Bowiés quite popular in Japan I’ve heard… particularly his Ziggy era… very cool Bowie was an absolute treasure and I completely agree
Rest in paradise you crazy starfish
Word
Starfish? Why a starfish?
BABBY BOBABS
Why? More like why the flippity flip-flop not? 💫
I mean star man
this comment just made me so happy idk y
this masterpiece could be listed as one of the best 15 rock songs of all time easily, criminally underrated
why call it rock.
Rest in peace, Mr. Rock. A true genius who will never be forgotten for his legendary contributions to rock and roll. 💔
It’s addicting listening to these song, unfortunately, artists today have no inspiration and no talent for music. Is this your favorite song?
Honestly when you put it like that it's no wonder David Bowie became such an a list name
Compltely compelling to play and sing Bowie songs on YT as a one man band ... its spiritual and a priviledge.
Life on Mars. I'm a one man band on youtube.
I remember, sitting in my mum´s room, I was about 12, watching music channel, I was about to leave the room when suddenly this song was on. I just sat on the floor in the front of the telly and was hypnotized and I couldn´t understand what is going on. That day I discovered Ziggy and my live has completely changed.. Thank you, David.
Would you like some tea with that
he's not Ziggy here
he's not Ziggy here, Ziggy didn't exist yet. Though obviously elements of the look are present.
There are good songs, there are great songs and then there's this.
Seriously. I could study music my entire life and I doubt I'd ever create anything approaching this. Almost 50 years old and still as unique, one of kind and powerful as ever. That's talent that can't be bought or taught. He was 24. 24!!
beautiful addition to his creativity
Chances are you weren't in the proximity of a monolith pulse. Many such cases.
Give props to Mick Ronson, who probably scored it, playing guitar and piano. Props to Captain Bowie singing and lyrics
Dude was gardening/landscaping when Bowie recruited him! Talk about an unsung rock hero!
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This song is perfect for every mood you are in, wether you are happy or sad. In my case, it makes me think of my dog. He passed away three weeks ago.
I love you dude.
It's illegal to dislike this song.
Hey you might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like David Bowie. Similar songwriting styles but unique as well
@@andrewmarcellis2007 ty 👍
71
Probably -- the way listen probably is. Hahah
FATCS
This is what i would call a perfect song.
@Ballyliffin Bros Hold up
@Griffith Williams Yap
@Ballyliffin Bros My guy types like how John Mulaney speaks
we did it boys, perseverance is safe and sound
Yeeeeeeeeeaaass
:)
Girl stop 💀
Say hello to Dr. Manhattan.
YES, WENT STRAIGHT TO WATCH THIS AFTER
Happy Birthday David Bowie! ❤❤❤ Gone but will NEVER be forgotten! An absolute genius and legend.
Guys David Bowie didn’t die he made it to Mars.
👽 In the afterlife, Mars has spirits for all living things on Earth, but Venus wants to fake it by making us see colors like a butterfly in a dream to think it's the 5th dimension. 👽
He will die there though.....
Bro yes
OnixTV your profile picture destroyed your whole comment
Exacly 😢
I believe it was Chistmas 73 I got this lp as a gift. I was 19. Upstairs in my room listening and gazing at the album cover in amazement. Not at all like anything I'd ever heard and I loved most of his songs immediately. I read that Bowie released the same LP around 1962 and it was so far ahead of it's time it failed miserably. Then about 10 years later we were ready to embrace it. It took us that long to catch up. I respect him for being an ever evolving singer/song writer and musician refusing to glide along then fade from view like so many rock bands.
1962 is too early... he was only 15 and still in school. He did start playing in bands and recording singles soon after, and his first album was released in 1967. None of that early stuff really launched his career, but it's interesting to listen to now and see how he experimented and learned his trade. His first hit (Space Oddity) was in 1969, when he was 22. And this was 1971, when he was 24. So he did get started young, but not THAT young.
My grandad is the biggest David Bowie fan I know, and this is his all time favourite song. When I asked him what he thought the meaning of the song was, he told me he personally believes it’s about a young girl falling pregnant and how the world has turned against her after she reveals this information to her mum and dad. And that her life becomes miserable with everyone doubting her and everything going wrong for her. To the point where she doesn’t want to be on this planet, she just wants to be on an entirely different planet away from everything. Hence the name life on Mars
Edit:
Been about 6 months since I commented this and I find it interesting how music and art in general can be viewed in so many different lights and interpreted in so many different ways. I feel that maybe my grandad thinks the song is about a young teen girl who falls pregnant is maybe because my mother was 16 when she had me. And it’s most likely he reflected his own experience of feeling with that into his own interpretation of the song. Idk I just find that really interesting. Art and music are amazing and no one should tell you your interpretation is wrong cause that’s how you see it, that is the truth to you as the viewer, and no one should ever be able to take that away.
I view it the first part as a sort of look at the news from the eyes of a teen. People die, politicians/pigs squabble, business as usual. I view the second as a much older version of that same person reliving it through art.
I view the "Is there life on mars?" question as a sort of "when will anything ever change?" in general.
@@ForcoyDavid Bowie
@@Forcoy Same. I think the purity of a child's mind in it's naivity would question the mess of human affairs. The lyrics "is there life on Mars?" seems to be an ode to either wanting to escape this reality, transcend it/ change things, live somewhere peaceful or even to possibly start over again.
+@ilikemilk781: It's about a girl going to the movies and being disappointed by how boring the movie is, thus denying her the entertainment and escape she wanted.
He's just observing how the world has been for at least 40 years because it's just as relevant today 2024 as back in the 70s. It's a wish for escape and a chance to start fresh.
Unreal that Hunky Dory came out the year I was born. At 53, I still love that album and of course, I love Life on Mars. It’s timeless; extra impressive for pop/rock/alternative.
We’re had the most beautiful soul in the world. This song makes me cry.
Me as well
Da fuck you talking bout? Y'all make no sense
Mee too
I’m crying right now & I can’t stop.
Not perfect English. But, I completely understand. Since he died, the whole world has turned to shit. I'm reaevaluting my Catholic status, I'm getting older... 😐
absolutely adored this since 1973 when i was 13 years old, now at 60 years old it is still amazing
... it will still be when we are 100 years old, John ❤
Huzzah!! A Boomer Of Quality!!
@@gamingledgens2112 cringe
@@yuzat what is cringe?
Mee tu
I am very young. And it makes me incredibly sad that I didn’t even know who David Bowie was before he passed. I love this music more than I have loved any music on this planet. And it pains me to know that this legend is gone from all our lives. I’ll never stop listening to his music. RIP David Bowie.
Artists never really die, because their essence and spirit still shine through their works, no matter how much time has passed. David comes back to life every time you and me listen to his music...
+Harrison wynn Me too I love Bowie's songs !!!!!
Thats good. Youd be even sadder when u knew him and he dies
harrison wynn stfu
David Bowie didn't really die, he just went home
The fabulous Davie Bowie!💯😍❤️👍Just another of his magnificent songs! Loved them all. May he be resting in peace, this great man and musical genius.🙏🌹🙏🌹
A person full of talent, art and beauty. A being free of social stigma and expectation. A free sole. R.I.P David Bowie
not so free; he suffered from crippling depression and other neuroses; his brother was similarly plagued by these problems and committed suicide.
So not so 'free' as much as 'didn't let those things CONTROL him (mostly)'
@@empath69 well then that would be free. He surmounted those things . And given the time period he started out in he was totally free of social expectations. He was courageous and forward thinking. He wasn't plagued or crippled by these these things at all. It was a source of great sadness for him to be sure but his musicality freed him and inspired others as he too was inspired.
aye, his feet were rather flightly
I cannot BELIEVE this only has 22 million views. Should have a billion.
should be 20 million
*20 billion
Should be in a bottle.
2200 trazillion gadzillion.
Wait... WHAT!?!?!?! I HAVENT REGOGNISED THAT IT HAS ONLY 22 MILLION VIEWS!!!
"Life On Mars?' is a quite gloriously no-further-questions masterpiece.
Where the combination of stirring, yearning melody and vivid, poetic imagery are at once completely impenetrable and yet resonant with personal meaning.
Totally Agree ... Mick was ace ... I wish we had never lost any of them ... the Ziggy sound is so hard to copy, I had a go on YT but at least I connected with lots of Bowie Fans.
It gives me chills, lyrics, Bowie's voice and music, evrything seems perfect 🥰🥰🥰
Yesterday this song turned 46 years old, and i still miss him. After 3 years his death...
We love you starman! I hope you're better on Mars
Man he’s almost been dead for 4 years. Time has really passed :(
I know. But the legend lives on.
Still remember that morning like yesterday .. Couldn't believe it
It’s still hard to imagine that he’s not here anymore. Just hearing his voice now I tear up so badly, but in the end he went doing what he wanted to do.
@COOLSAMMYJO CAT I was 11 when he died. I remember going to school and everyone was talking about it and we were all crushed. R.I.P David. You may be gone but your music will live forevermore
I remember getting up and my boyfriend’s mum telling me he’d died. At least the radio in the office was playing lots of great music (thinnest of silver linings)
DAVID BOWIE
1947 - ETERNAL
I was just thinking the same thing
Bowie is top three of the big brain in rock music business:Bob Dylan 2-Bowie 3-??
oh come on now
He’s 70?? I had no idea!
@@brinley9629 he was 69 when he died, he would be 72 now
Verge of tears. What a voice!
If you're ever sad, realize that you got to be alive in the same time as David Bowie.
That really helps thanks.
Uhhh...
Almost..
5 year olds:
Not me. I was born about 2 1/2 minutes ago.
@@nukirisame5298 OHMYGOD I just realised it's been 5 years since he died! What a surprise!
Did you guys know the guy who directed this also made the Bohemian Rhapsody music video and took some of Queens most iconic pictures?
I didn't, but now I do. Thank you.
What's his name?
@@sakunonc Mick Rock
Wow he really likes zooming in on people’s faces
That's pretty cool!
David Bowie isn't really gone, y'know...he's on Mars and surfing the stars.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
He’s a space oddity
and arguing with Freddie Mercury lol
Love how whoever made this video went to Bowie and said, "EXPOSURE! MAXIMUM VIDEO EXPOSURE!" lol its so over exposed.
Ye he’s chilling with major tom on mars
he's not dead he's just waiting in the sky he'd like to come meet us but he'd thinks he'd blow our minds
Will always remain my fave Bowie song ever, how can you possibly top that.