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Life On Mars? by David Bowie
Genre: Glam Rock
Year: 1971
Year: 1971
"Life on Mars?" is a song by David Bowie first released in 1971 on the album Hunky Dory. The song—which BBC Radio 2 later called "a cross between a Broadway musical and a Salvador Dalí painting"Sold on Song: "Life on Mars" from the BBC Radio 2 website—featured guest piano work by keyboardist Rick Wakeman. When released as a single in 1973, it reached #3 in the UK and stayed on the chart for 13 weeks. The song re-entered the UK charts at #55 over 30 years later, largely because of a TV show by the same name that used the song.
In February 1999, Q magazine listed the single as one of the 100 greatest of all time, as voted by the readers. It has continued to chart in the Q best of polls, featuring most recently in 2006 at #45. A BBC Radio 2 poll in Read full article at wikipedia.org
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More songs by David Bowie: Watch That Man, Jump They Say, Where Have All the Good Times Gone, I'm Afraid of Americans, The Heart's Filthy Lesson.
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