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David Bowie was a British artist, that acted on stage, film and tv, but is best known for his singing career. In the early 1970s (This video) David is dressed up as his alter ego "Ziggy Stardust." This was a character he created and transformed himself into in his concert tours for a few years in the early 70s. He recorded an album as Ziggy Stardust, that was a huge success. Then David transformed himself back into a soul/Funk singer in the mid to late 70s. This guy was an unbelievable talent on so many levels. Singer, writer, actor, he did it all.

"The Stars Look Very Different Today" ..R.I.P. David 🙏 ❤

David Bowie is British born in London. Iman is from Mogadishu, Somalia. This song was inspired in part by the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. What I love about Bowie was his diversity and creativity. You should react to Golden Years next. TOTALLY different sound because Bowie brings the funk!

Bowie reinvented himself, musically and his style every few years.

Yes, David had a fascination for the idea of a spaceman who is an outsider... someone who doesn't fit in or a stranger in a strange land. The character in this song, Major Tom, shows up in two more Bowie songs throughout his career. The second arrival of Major Tom comes in the song Ashes To Ashes on the Scary Monsters album. The final appearance isn't heard in the lyrics but you see him in the official video for the song Blackstar from the album of the same name. That album by the way was released just days before he died in 2016 so that video along with the video for the song Lazarus are the last times we saw him alive and he knew he was dying when he made them.

David Bowie did sooo many different styles of music. This was his Ziggy Stardust era style and yes, this song is perfect for space movies!!

When I think of cool? I think of David Bowie. His passing impacted me more than any other artist. Talent beyond space. :-)

Great performance at Freddie Mercurie's Tribute Concert. At the end, he knelt down and recited the Lord's Prayer. Surprised everybody from Queen, very touching.☮

David was British and Iman is from Mogadishu. I really enjoy your reactions!

David Bowie is super diverse. Check out songs like "Fame", "OH, You Pretty Things", and "Suffragette City" or if you really want to blow your mind, watch him and Bing Crosby perform "Little Drummer Boy"

I lost a young friend fellow heroin addict 25yrs ago. He got clean and his family sent him to Nepal for spiritual healing. He simply found cheap good heroin there and over doses. His family held a memorial in a small.park downtown built in the 1860's. Pictures on tables and other things of Eddy's. We played the 12 inch single of Space Odysee, his favourite song at the end of the service as we all prayed hugged and cried. I miss Eddy. Thanks for reacting to this LFR FAMILY

On your own time go to KZfaq and enter, lady grinning soul... One of David Bowie's most beautiful songs.

Poor Major Toms tin can took off without him when he stepped out the door. 'Tell my wife I love her very much' always gets to me! Sure, we find out more about Major Tom in later songs....but that line still kills me.

David Bowie was British. He was born David Jones, but had to change it because of Davy Jones from the Monkees. The surname was inspired from the Bowie knife which is a distinctive knife. I was only a young child when this was released but I immediately fell in love with it and always followed his music right up to his death.

Love me some Bowie! Suffragette City..Rebel Rebel..Youngs Americans next please!

This is my favorite Bowie song. He is so diverse and just a very unique guy. He collaborated with Freddie Mercury on Under Pressure

Astronaut Chris Hadfield did a cover of this on the International Space Station. 100% worth checking it out. He’s really floating in a tin can. Also, Iman was in Michael Jackson’s video for “Remember the Time”

David did have a trend of directly space themed songs in the 70's and would come back to it now and again as every couple of albums he would recreate himself into a character, and even after he was past characters, he would still revisit them. Honestly Ziggy Stardust and Moon Age Daydream are my top two space songs from him, Black Star, a combo calling out his soon to end life and the end of Ziggy, is a very close third, it's at least 3 songs in one, and that last touch of the retro Bowie that we knew and loved.

Ooooeeee Bowie! He's a supernova! One of a kind revolutionary!!! An amazing artist, musician, singer, songwriter, actor (Labyrinth one of my favs too 😉) with one hell of back catalogue spanning over six decades... Just wow! So many songs and styles to explore. Yes, he married Iman and he was from England. Enjoy the Bowie trip, get stuck in ✌️🎶🙏

Wow, this is such a damn classic. Truly one of those "how have you not heard?" songs. From a time when astronauts were minor celebrities, when science still inspired awe and represented progress. This came out about a week before Apollo 11 landed on the moon, so the Space Race between US and USSR had been going on for quite a while. Imagination of what being in space was like, was running rampant. 2001: A Space Odyssey just came out the year prior too.

I was 5 in 1969, and one Thursday, while my mother was working (cleaning a pub) the man came to empty the old records from the jukebox to put the new releases in, and this was one of the 7" singles I had in my grubby hands as we went home. I think it was on the turntable for a solid week. Then the b-side, "Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud" did the same. Blew this little boy's mind, especially with all the Apollo stuff on the TV

This was sung in space with a guitar by Commander Hadfield of International Space Station.

Like me, he comes from SE London. I saw him play this track (actually, the whole album) at a gig at the local concert hall in Croydon. Also heard him reciting poetry in a pub (The Three Fishes, Beckenham) before he was famous. Shame he's gone.

I was 9 years old in 1972. This was the music I listened to back then and still now

Great choice. He was living art

David Bowie was born David Robert Jones in London, England. He thought his real name was too similar to Davy Jones of The Monkees so he changed it to Bowie, which he took from the Bowie knife which was featured in a lot of American westerns. He was married to supermodel Iman, who was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, in East Africa.

He is from Brixton London England ....He makes all kinds a shit ,not just space stuff and he went to funk also later on in the mid 70s with the song FAME and John Lennon sings backup on that... Golden Years is good also .. Heroes ,that is a big one and Lets Dance from the 80s with Stevie Ray Vaughn on guitar. Those are 4 good popular songs

YES he loved outerspace!!! 'LIFE ON MARS' is my favorite, you will love it!! 🚀✨

Wow - you're the first person I know to pick out he was singing in octaves with himself. David does it quite often and is a great effect. I met him back in the 70's and he was so polite. Thank you for your listening.

Many Bowie fans truly feel he was an alien sent here to make music.

Oh man, this is a treasure. One of my favorites, but you have to follow with Ashes to Ashes and then Lazarus. I think it’s Bowie pushing his imagination and ours. He was a brilliant artist. He was born in the UK.

I love Van's reactions. He tries to dissect what the singer is saying, and that isn't something a lot of other reactors do. It can't be understated: that's what makes these reaction videos so good.

Same album, Ziggy Stardust. That's why there's several songs about space. Bowie was from England. Please checkout "Suffragette City" thanks.

You have to check out Bowie with Queen doing Under Pressure. Great song. You'll also see why Vanilla Ice is doing home improvement shows now.

Bowie is a genre of its own!

My absolute favourite from my youth 1973.. . He us amazing

Everything Changed in 1960s … social changes, crowded schools/colleges; technology (color TV; stereo FM radio); and almost 500K people working to fulfill JFK’s Moon Challenge. Space themes featured in 1968 with Planet of the Apes and 2001 started a 2nd expansion (music, film, books) that peaked with Close Encounters & Star Wars (1977).

Bowie, RIP, went through many incarnations. Right up to commercial hits, like "Let's Dance". So original. Pushed the boundaries... fearless, gender bending artist.

The sound of you're wondering about is the sound of the mellotron.it was a keyboard instrument used to simulate strings and other sounds..on this particular recording it was played by Rick wakeman.

He's an astronaut, that goes into space, and just like in real life, it's a dangerous job. In the song, during his spacewalk, outside the capsule, something goes wrong, and everyone realizes, he isn't able to get back into the space capsule, and he's going to float around alone in space, until he eventually dies. In real life, I believe they (astronauts) are given a cyanide capsule to kill themselves, rather than go through the nightmare of floating around in space until you die.

Ziggy stardust was his very best . David live is one of the best live albums ever released

Been a huge Bowie fan even though I first got turned on in the 90s. I knew it was all weird when I was recounting a similar experience online and Space Oddity came on the radio at work. Cheers.

David Bowie was reinventing himself back when Madonna was in catechism. Love him so much!

He had so many personas. A true genius. So ahead of his time.

Love Changes too! Interesting his eyes were two completely different colors

Great Reaction, My Friend, David was born and raised in Brixton, South East London, and is English, just 2 miles from me, and like most Londoners, we moved out to The Outer London Suburbs. His family moved to Beckenham, just 10 miles away as we, also, did.. He attended Art College with Peter Frampton who you MUST watch LIVE and Peter's Dad taught him:). This song came out when the USA reached the moon in 1969.! ! DAVID BOWIE-LIVE IN BERLIN: HEROES" is for you so ENJOY..

David was born in London England. His 2nd wife, Iman, is Somanlian. I love David Bowie. So many great songs. And he has been in 30 films. Unfortunately, he died of liver cancer Jan. 10, 2016, 2 days after his 69th birthday.

There is such a catalog with Bowie, but I would love to see you jump to “Let’s Dance “ with Nile Rogers collab and Stevie Ray Vaughan on guitar. Damn but “China girl” is great on that album as well.

'Where is David Bowie from?' - Mars (popped into my head) :D You gotta check out his 'sequel' song to this: Ashes To Ashes

England. Yes iman she is from Somalia originally but they lived in new York. She was a fashion model and actress she was in a star trek movie in the 90s. Oh this song originally came put in 1969 and was used on British television coverage of the apollo 11 moon landing

David Bowie was from Leeds in England. This song was released 1 year before we put men on the moon.

David Bowie is from another place. LOL And so was his music

The first Brirish “Space” Record was the instrumental “Telstar” which was a US Billboard No. 1 in early 1960s.

David Bowie is the astronaut Major Tom. He’s also singing for Ground Control that’s monitoring his spaceship. Very sad ending. But OMG, as classic as Bowie you can get. Anything, Everything on his Ziggy Stardust album is phenomenal. This is an early Bowie most don’t know existed.

David Bowie was such an asset to the music world.. very creative! Did you know he even sang with Bing Crosby.. Little Drummer Boy.

England had so much great music and musicians. What is it? The water? (Lord, knows they have enough of that) This is so wonderfully between folk and rock.

Just a piece of history, David Bowie, and Peter Frampton, went to the same high school, Peter Framptons dad was a teacher, and was one of David's teachers.

Such an iconic song for my generation! 💖

When music took you on a journey. Bowie was a music genius and legend. Check out Golden Years and and Suffagette City.

Hi Van :) Years later he made a sequel song called Ashes to Ashes, which follows Major Tom after the events of this one. If you listen to both of them back to back, the result is like an acid trip in your head.

Iman was one of the most beautiful super models of all time and married to David Bowie, the original power couple... ♡♡♡

David Bowie definitely was not from planet Earth and we were blessed to have him here for a short time on our planet.

He played an alien in the 70's movie The Man Who Fell to Earth

Bowie is undoubtally one of the most original artists to step on Earth ! One of a kind. A very gentle, clever and creative dude! An artist to be forever missed

Ya gotta remember, this was 4 or 5 years after the moon landing and sci fis like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Trek were in full swing. America, Russia, most of Europe -- space was the grand adventure, humanity's final frontier. It's only natural that our music, books and movies reflected that exploratory enthusiasm.

Bowie was British . This song has two sequels with Major Tom, Ashes to ashes and the video for Blackstar where you see the final fate of Maj. tom. Bowie also did a re-recording of this song in 1980 done in the style of John Lennon as a tribute to him. Worth checking out, the video is on KZfaq

"Produced in 1972" refers to the video, not the song. It was already a hit in 1969. Produced by Gus Dudgeon, later of the Elton John's albums fame...

This a song that still gives me chills every time I hear it. Columbia, Challenger, Gemini, Apollo.... chills man. Every time.

It's a classic for a reason. And David Bowie made LOTS of them. Anyway, this was recorded in 1969 and the young and still fairly unknown Rick Wakeman played the mellotrone and got paid like four pence because he was a student at the Royal Academy and for some reason not allowed to take session jobs of any kind. You can hear him playing for Bowie two years later on the album "Hunky Dory" - which is a fantastic album.

Again young man another great Artist from our very small Island called Great Britain Drop back on how many Brits you have reacted to and loved

David Bowie, born in London, England, January 8, 1947, named David Robert Jones. Died January 10, 2016. RIP, Mr. Newton.

It was just the time.The era of moon landing. The commander of space station Chris Hadfield did a tribute version from space 😃

Nice reaction to a classic, timeless song❗️Bro you need to react to the audio of Moonage Day Dream (1972. )It's is on the same album as Starman. I believe you would enjoy it, and he continues the theme of outer worldly space experiences. It wasn't a single, but it's loved by Bowie fans and is considered another classic💙

Life On Mars and Moonage Daydream are a couple more Bowie classics from that era

When I consider the lyrics as an adult, my shortest interpretation is: the song brings up images of external, superficial perceptions of success by others, versus your own internal struggles. Major Tom disconnects himself in the end...

This was David's Ziggy Stardust phrase. The Man Who Fell to Earth. As you mentioned, many space themed songs. The whole feel was about using drugs to expand your perspective.

Born in Brixton, London as David Jones. A legend.

David was born in the UK Brixton in Southwest London in 1947. He was born David Jones but changed his name to David Bowie.

It’s his alter ego…ZIGGY STARDUST….who’s performing now!! David Bowie is from London UK….he was married to IMAN ..a African Somalis Uber Super model….they had a daughter….listen to YOUNG AMERICAN…read the performers..it will freak you out….everyone has to start some place!! Even John Lennon from the BEATLES helps David out as a vocalist/guitarist…look up LITTLE DRUMMER BOY….he performs as ZIGGY a little bit…impressed Bing Crosby

Now listen to it thinking of Major Tom as a someone struggling and deciding to succumb to addiction. There are several interpretations of it but Bowie mentioned addiction. Bowie was incredible and reinvented himself over and over as fully embraced characters. He was way ahead of his time.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars was about an alien who came to Earth.

Keep going!!! You can't go wrong with Bowie.

Bowie's Ashes to Ashes revisits the Major Tom character as does his song Hallo Spaceboy. Both are great songs. I'd still love to see you react to Bowie's Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing. ✌🏽

I grew up hearing Bowie songs, and enjoying them....but, I never REALLY heard many of them, like this one. It takes quite a creative genius to make me actually contemplate the angst of astronauts as they leave their families & loved ones...all the while making the song so pleasant to hear in every way !! There are still many of his songs that I am discovering at 57 yrs old...lol. Rock on Van....Great reaction !!!

Next must be Life on Mars. My husband's and mine favourite. Space Oddity came out with the lunar landing in 1969. David was in 8 groups and also did mime shows between 1965 and 1969. Imagine that? Trying to get a break. This was his first hit! He found once he got into the character of Ziggy Stardust, he became recognised. David Robert Jones, is born in Brixton UK. He has lived in the US around the time of The Young Americans

Yes he did make a lot of space songs 🎵 Rip David 🙏 😢

One of my favorite songs of all time !!!

When I was a young man I wanted to be David Bowie hahaha

I’m a huge Bowie lover and watching you enjoy this made me smile 😃

That sound you mentioned was from an instrument called The Mellotron and was so new then that only 1 or2 people knew the secret of how to play it including Rick Wakeman who would NOT tell The Engineers so he could keep earning the £6 or $8 Recording Fee, I bought my first record in London in 1960 and 62 years later that is STILL my favourite note of all time:)

Not a lot about going into space... but he did a whole "theme" album about a space man (Ziggy Stardust) who comes to earth. This song was actually from a different album. But I don't think he did a lot of other space theme stuff.

I think he was inspired to write about what was big at the time - think about 1972 when this was released - man had not long been to the moon and the space race was on - You should check out a short interview with MTV - he called them out in his own unique way - why black singers were not played in the main on MTV.

Iman was born in Somalia and you can see her in Michael Jackson’s video ‘Remember the Time’, where she plays the pharaoh’s wife (played by Eddy Murphy).

I love the random shots of the sound board with the poorly configured oscilloscope. But the song still rocks socks.

DAVID BOWIE, "SPACE ODDITY". FROM ENGLAND, HE SAID HE WAS INSPIRED TO WRITE THIS AFTER SEE 2001 SPACE ODISSEY MOVIE.. THIS song reflected the times, and the so called SPACE RACE with USSR..

That cymbal smash

David Bowie was always reinventing himself. A great performer!!

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David Bowie was a British citizen and married to a very beautiful Somali born supermodel named Iman. David was also heterochromia meaning he was born with two different colored eyes.