David Bowie Lyrics

    ------ About the song Major Tom performed by David Bowie

The 10-20-12 comment by Kevin wrongly said, "the reason why you never see hardly any stars in those moon photos is because the moon lacks ... an atmosphere. The reason that we can see ... stars from Earth as well as make out features of the moon with the naked eye is the fact that Earth's atmosphere acts like the lens of a telescope, therefore magnifying things. This does not happen on the Moon, so hardly any stars can be seen from the moon." X No, no, the stars in space can be seen by the astronauts in space as well as the 12 men who walked on the moon. But if its night and you walk into your front yard and have your photo taken, you cannot see stars in the background. It doesn't matter that we have an atmosphere! The camera exposes for the normal thing you photograph, the person close up who is lit, at night, by artificial lights. In order to get a picture of the stars you have to expose for that much dimmer and spread out subject. The astronauts can see the stars when they are in space just fine! Yes, the stars are more like unchanging pinpoints of light when you're viewing them from space, because our atmosphere makes them twinkle and seem slightly larger.

    ------ About the song Major Tom performed by David Bowie

In 1967 (2 years BEFORE David Bowie's Major Tom song) Apollo 1's space capsule caught on fire before it could go up into space and 3 astronauts died in the fire. The song could be about that.

Or it could be about this one that happened the same year as the Apollo 1 fire:

April 23–24, Soyuz 1: Vladimir M. Komarov was killed when his craft crashed after its parachute lines, released at 23,000 ft for reentry, became snarled.

    ------ About the song Big Brother performed by David Bowie

I bought this album new as a teenager. Now in my fifities I have come back to it after seeing Society for what it is. Hero worship, at the sake of our own lives given away. The cadence of the whole album is melancholy but rebellious, like the book 1984 it was based largely on. To think the book was written in 1948 (65 years ago), the time period of the book has past us by almost thirty years ago and still Big Brother creeps into our lives, controlling our innermost wants and desires, traded away for personal gain and material wants. Meanwhile Kanye is the illiterate king. King of the Dead.

    ------ About the song Within YOu performed by David Bowie

Every time I watch this part of the film or hear this song i cry. It is beautiful. I'm 14 and a massive fan of David Bowie (Fangirl would be a more accurate description actually) and watching him sing this, with that sadness in his eyes makes me blab like a baby.

    ------ About the song Station To Station performed by David Bowie

Station To Station. Favorite Bowie song. It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up the first time I heard it when the album came out and all these years later it still does. Just a stunningly gorgeous song with some of the best lyrics ever-"It's not the side effects of the cocaine. I'm thinkin that it must be love." And "Oh, what will I be believing and who will connect me with love?" Just thinking about this song gives me an adrenaline rush. A pivotal album in the life of this fan who has lived and breathed David Bowie's music for 40 plus years.

    ------ About the song Young Americans performed by David Bowie

now i know why i never bought one of his records!~ it would be nice if it had been recorded in a way that the lyrics could be understood. American Bandstand would rate this at about 2!

    ------ About the song Life On Mars? performed by David Bowie

I am amrican and I am the biggest fan of david guetta, and I like the good music. That's why I wanted take a look at the song. This song is obviously a catastrophy I waist 3 minutes of my life (3min 'cause I couldn't listen longer) David bowie is a whimp and I am disappointed of his behavious. He is dressed like a bird.
kiss my ass bunch of loser

    ------ About the song Cracked Actor performed by David Bowie

One of David Bowie's best unrecognized hit songs. Not as popular or as well known as "Let's Dance" or "Young Americans," Cracked Actor is Bowie's shining example of commentary, double entendre, and simple poetic brilliance. Plus, Mick Ronson's growling, wailing, and haunting guitar work on this song in particular is second to none.

    ------ About the song Underground [long version] performed by David Bowie

Yes I agree as well. Nothing can beat Labyrinth as it is one of the greatest movies ever to be made. I first saw this movie when I was three, I'm now fourteen and as a complete bowie fan, nothing can beat bowie in any song or movie he does. Go David! You rule!

    ------ About the song Pablo Picasso performed by David Bowie

Pablo Picasso, legendary ladies man and a pretty good painter to boot. Bowie's covers have always been of the love em or leave em variety. This take on the Modern Lovers classic is no exception. Listen to that instead.