Space Oddity

My first review of a song that’s older than me!
I have to admit, shamefully, that I heard this song for the first time on October 12th, 2009, the day I went to U2 360 concert…and it was their opening song, the most unheard one of the concert, because it’s the one that is playing when lights are turned off, and everyone is just shouting and eager to see Bono and Co. step onstage…
But the verse “THIS IS GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR TOM, YOU’VE REALLY MADE THE GRADE” was so loud, that I started thinking that it was one of the greatest pieces I had ever listened.
Once out of the concert, I asked one of my friends about it, and he told me it was some tune from David Bowie. I turned on my ipod, seek David Bowie, and guess what? The song was already there!!!!
It is a weird story about spaceships and astronauts, and as long as I have read, there is a part two of this song…was Major Tom able to re-communicate with ground control? Perhaps we’ll never know!
But these amazing 5 minutes of heaven, always make me wonder how the Earth would look from outer space, how would your life be while living in that kind of “tin cans”, how different would the stars look, what I’d do if I, out of the sudden, would lose touch with ground control…
Anyway, aside from being of the greatest songs from yore, this song is another proof that no bad thing or feeling can come from being a U2 fan…