“Dave…stop…stop, will you…stop, Dave…will you stop, Dave…stop, Dave…I’m afraid…”Welcome to the year of the film that inspired David Bowie to pen the song that gave him his first taste of commercial success, (phew). As everybody reading this knows, the film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, was the trigger for some of the ideas contained within what is possibly David’s most famous song, the punningly entitled ‘Space Oddity’ (“…Oooh yes I don’t really like David Bowie, but I do like that Major Tom one..”).Released in July 1969 the single eventually reached #5 in the UK, and was the first reissued single ever to reach #1 on its second issue when it “really made the grade” in 1975. Space Oddity continues to be one of Bowie’s most enduring and endearing songs, and it wasn’t too many years after this initial flush of success that another Stanley Kubrick film would leave a huge impression on David, helping flavour the look of his next success, Ziggy Stardust. But that’s a story we’ll go into in considerably more detail next year. Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)
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