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Subject: Major Tom (Coming home)
In this song by Peter Schilling, did David Bowie sing any part of it ??? My husband and I both thought so but are now unsure.
Subject: Re: Major Tom (Coming home)
> In this song by Peter Schilling, did David Bowie sing any part of it ???
> My husband and I both thought so but are now unsure.
Don't believe so.. I've heard the song many many times and I don't recall hearing Bowie's voice. The "connection" between Bowie and the song involves Bowie's song "Space Oddity" (about Major Tom)
Jack
Hopefully this message doesn't get posted twice... recognized an error in the text as I was trying to send it.
Subject: Re: Major Tom (Coming home)
> In this song by Peter Schilling, did David Bowie sing any part of it ???
> My husband and I both thought so but are now unsure.
Don't believe so.. I've heard the song many many times and I recall hearing Bowie's voice. The "connection" between Bowie and the song involves Bowie's song "Space Oddity" (about Major Tom)
Jack
Subject: Not David...
David Bowie wasn't featured on this track. Peter Schilling wrote it as a "sequel" to Bowie's "A Space Oddity."
Subject: Re: Not David...
> David Bowie wasn't featured on this track. Peter Schilling wrote it as a
> "sequel" to Bowie's "A Space Oddity."
Not to be picky, but this song is not really a "sequel" to Space Oddity. It's really a remake--different music and lyrics, but telling the same story. I know the lyrics to both songs well and they describe basically the same events: being on the launch pad, launching into space, going beyond the moon, something goes wrong, the "tell my wife I love her" vs. "give my wife my love" and then silence from the lost astronaut. Major Tom does have a somewhat more upbeat-sounding ending, although I suspect the "coming home" lyric could be a reference to death and "coming home" to heaven.
Subject: Fun to Funky, We know Major Tom's not a sequel
> Not to be picky, but this song is not really a "sequel" to Space
> Oddity.
I guess you're right! But I think we know what they're REALLY talking about, as evidenced by the true sequel to "A Space Oddity," "Ashes to Ashes" "Ashes to Ashes, fun to funky, we know Major Tom's a junkie...."
Subject: Re: Not David...
, although I suspect the "coming home" lyric could be a
> reference to death and "coming home" to heaven.
I always thought that "coming home" was a reference to the idea that we all come from the cosmos, and return therein. Sort of an "ashes to ashes" for the universe.
Subject: Re: Not David...
> I always thought that "coming home" was a reference to the idea
> that we all come from the cosmos, and return therein. Sort of an
> "ashes to ashes" for the universe.
oooh, I really like that...ties it right back in to the other Bowie "Major Tom" reference. Are you an English major? :-)
Subject: Bowie / Schilling
> oooh, I really like that...ties it right back in to the other Bowie
> "Major Tom" reference. Are you an English major? :-)
No, just a happy 80s nut with Bowie and Schilling on vinyl. Sigh!
Subject: Re: Bowie / Schilling
If you're really interested in analyzing Schilling's music you should get a hold of A Different Story (which is a mix of various Schilling songs with an addition track "The Different Story"). The whole album pretty much plays like a continuous story (though "Berlin" seems like a flashback)
Jack