Space Oddity (Embedded video version): ©David Bowie, 1969.

"Space Oddity" is a song written and performed by David Bowie and released as a music single in 1969. It is about the launch of Major Tom, a fictional astronaut; its title alludes to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, released the previous year. The lyrics have also been seen to lampoon the failed British space program. The song appears on the album David Bowie (also known as Space Oddity).

The BBC featured the song in its television coverage of the Apollo 11 launch and lunar landing, which took place in the days following the release of the song.

The embedded mini-video is from a David Bowie live performance sometime post 1969, and is in addition to the AI-created images seen in the earlier "Space Oddity" video uploaded by myself.

The original video, minus the AI images can be viewed at this URL:

   • David Bowie - Space Oddity, Live, 1969  

David Kelly.