In a 2003 interview, Bowie spoke about the Stanley Kubrick film that inspired the hit song. “It was the sense of isolation I related to,” he said. “I found the whole thing amazing. 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 got the song flowing.”
“It was picked up by British television and used as the background music for the landing itself in Britain,” the singer said. “Though I’m sure they really weren’t listening to the lyric at all. It wasn’t a pleasant thing to juxtapose against a moon landing. Of course, I was overjoyed that they did. Obviously, some BBC official said, ‘Oh, right then, that space song, Major Tom, blah blah blah, that’ll be great.’ Nobody had the heart to tell the producer, ‘Um, but he gets stranded in space, sir!’”
Bowie continued, “When I originally wrote about Major Tom, I thought I knew all about the great American dream and where it started and where it should stop. Here was the great blast of American technological know-how shoving this guy up into space, but once he gets there, he’s not quite sure why he’s there. And that’s where I left him.”
Bowie, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, released several more iconic songs throughout his career. They included “Heroes,” "Ziggy Stardust,” and “Life on Mars?” He was also an actor who appeared in hit films like Labyrinth and The Prestige. He died in 2016 at the age of 69 after a battle with liver cancer.
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