A New Mix Of Bowie’s “Space Oddity” Just Released Along With A Video.

A video set to a new mix of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” was just unveiled during NASA’s 50th Anniversary of the Moon landing. 

The clip attached to the video says:

“The video features footage of David Bowie performing ‘Space Oddity’ at his 50th-birthday concert at Madison Square Garden in 1997 (directed by Tim Pope), married to footage shot and directed by Édouard Lock (the founder and choreographer of the Montreal dance troupe La La La Human Steps), for the onscreen back drop of Bowie’s 1990 Sound & Vision tour.”

The new version of “Space Oddity” dropped on July 12, one day after the 50th anniversary of the original’s release. You can pick it up as part of a set that not only contains the 1969 mixes of both “Space Oddity” and its B-side, “Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud,” it also comes with a poster and a photo. It was mixed by Bowie’s longtime collaborator Tony Visconti, who oversaw the sessions for 1969’s David Bowie, but thought “Space Oddity” was a novelty song because of its timing with the Apollo 11 launch. He was wrong! Gus Dudgeon ended up producing the track which went all the way to #5 in the U.K. and ended up being Bowie’s breakthrough single!

Check out the video set to the new mix here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptVbk7r4IcA&feature=youtu.be

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This post was written by Kate Wright