Starman

Album: Ziggy Stardust (1972)
Charted: 10 65
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  • On February 6, 2018, Elon Musk's company SpaceX launched the Falcon Heavy rocket with his Tesla Roadster on board. At the wheel was a mannequin in a space suit that Musk named "Starman" in honor of Bowie. Once in space, the car was released from the rocket on a trajectory toward Mars.
    Courtesy: SpaceX

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  • Peter Josevski from Somewhere In The Universestarmannnnn love this song!
  • Seth from Somewhere In The UniverseOur glorious old friend David is now the Starman.
  • Mike from ScrantonThis song was featured in the movie "The Martian" starring Matt Damon. Great fit to a fantastic movie.
  • Nina from Brandon, MsMick Ronson, guitarist of the Spiders from Mars, was hugely instrumental in arranging and musically shaping Bowie's songs from the Ziggy Stardust era. Mick was a classically trained musician and incredibly talented, though extremely underated at the time.
  • Allie from A Little Ol' Town In, Mi0
  • Sara Mackenzie from Middle Of Nowhere, Fldude, this is SUCH a great song!! go ziggy!! =^_^=
  • Mark from London, EnglandThe full title of the LP is "The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars", although the first UK CD releases, on the RCA label, credited just "Ziggy Stardust". Shortly after his RCA back catalogue was released on CD for the first time, Bowie jumped ship to another label which bought the rights and reissued the CDs, thus creating possibly the first general release (i.e. non-promo) CD rarities in the world!
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