The single was rushed out to coincide with the Apollo 11 moon landing nine days later, on July 20, and, as Parade has noted, it drew inspiration from the sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey. At first it sold poorly. Then it slowly climbed the British charts through the fall, finally reaching No. 5 and giving Bowie his first hit.
Here is the strange part. "Space Oddity" would be Bowie's only chart hit for the next three years. Even as he became a superstar in the early 1970s with "Starman," "The Jean Genie" and "Life on Mars?," none of those songs reached the top of the UK chart.
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