I just saw an ad for Lincoln automobiles, which had a cover of Space Oddity emasculated by some random girl singer, the way Target has done with the Beatles' Hello Goodbye. This is different because Bowie still owns the songwriting for his songs, unlike the Beatles' publishing, which are owned by Sony.
So, while I respect the artists' right to do anything they want with their songs, and Bowie is certainly commercially aware, I have to say that it cheapens them to be used in this way.
Anyway, this is the original video & recording of Space Oddity, pre-Angie. And it doesn't have Rick Wakeman's classic mellotron.
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