LIFE ON MARS
DAVID
BOWIE
SONGWRITER:
DAVID BOWIE
COUNTRY: U.
K.
ALBUM: HUNKY
DORY
LABEL: RCA
VICTOR
GENRE: ROCK
AND ROLL
YEAR: 1971
"Life on Mars?",
also known as "(Is There) Life on Mars?", is a song by David Bowie,
first released in 1971 on the album Hunky Dory and also released as a single.
The song, with cryptic lyrics by Bowie and prominent piano by Rick Wakeman, has
been described by BBC Radio 2 as "a cross between a Broadway musical and a
Salvador Dalí painting." When released as a single in 1973, it reached
number three in the UK Singles Chart and stayed on the chart for thirteen
weeks.
In 2015 Neil McCormick,
chief rock music critic of The Daily Telegraph, ranked it as number one in his
"100 Greatest Songs of All Time" list. In 2016, Pitchfork named it
the best song of the 1970s.
David Robert Jones (8
January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie(/ˈboʊi/), was an English singer-songwriter and actor. He
was a leading figure in popular music for over five decades, acclaimed by
critics and fellow musicians for his innovative work. His career was marked by
reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly
influencing popular music. During his lifetime, his record
sales, estimated at 140 million albums worldwide, made him one of the world's
best-selling music artists. In the UK, he was awarded nine platinum album
certifications, eleven gold and eight silver, releasing eleven number-one
albums. In the US,
he received five platinum and nine gold certifications. He
was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
It's a God awful small affair
To the girl with the mousey hair
But her mummy is yelling: No!
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seats with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen
But the film is sadd'ning bore
For she's lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall.
Oh man!
Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man!
Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a sadd'ning bore
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man!
Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man!
Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
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