![]() The BBC played "Space Oddity" during the Moon landing. Tony Visconti, who produced Bowie’s self-titled 1969 album, thought the song was a cheap attempt to cash in on the Apollo 11 mission, and he tapped someone else to produce that particular single. ![]() But the song failed to win over one producer. That tape featured an early iteration of “Space Oddity,” and based on the demo, Mercury signed him for a one-album deal. In 1969, a few years into David Bowie’s career, the musician recorded a demo tape with plans to use it to land a deal with Mercury Records. "Space Oddity" helped him sign a record deal. The break inspired several songs, including “ Letter to Hermione” and “ Life on Mars,” and in “Space Oddity,” Bowie’s post-breakup loneliness and melancholy is especially apparent. Bowie wrote the song after ending his relationship with actress Hermione Farthingale. The track was also partly inspired by the more universal experience of heartbreak. ![]() "Space Oddity" was also inspired by heartbreak. I was out of my gourd, very stoned when I went to see it-several times-and it was really a revelation to me. ![]() “It was the sense of isolation I related to,” Bowie told Classic Rock in 2012. Bowie watched 2001: A Space Odyssey multiple times when it premiered in theaters in 1968. Many listeners assumed that "Space Oddity" was riffing on the Apollo 11 Moon landing of 1969, but it was actually inspired by a Stanley Kubrick film released a year earlier. ![]()
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