Oh man! Wonder if he’ll ever know…
Neil McCormick, the UK Telegraph’s rock critic, has chosen his 100 greatest songs of all time.
In the year of its 40th anniversary, he starts with Space Oddity at #100 and kind of reveals the fact that Bowie is also #1 in the list with his accompanying text for Space Oddity: “I shall start as I intend to finish, with sci-fi strangeness from pop?s resident alien.”.
And indeed he does finish with David Bowie at #1 with Life On Mars?, as you no doubt worked out from the headline and scan from today’s Culture section of the Telegraph, above.
Whether Life On Mars? can be accurately described as “sci-fi strangeness” is debatable…in fact, no it’s not debatable…it isn’t a sci-fi song.
Either way, McCormick’s conclusion is accurate…Life On Mars?, probably is the greatest song of all time…That or Teenage Wildlife, or The Bewlay Brothers….or, or, or…
You can view the full top 100