“And I think my spaceship knows which way to go”
The week before Space Oddity reached its final destination of #5 on the UK singles chart (it was at #6 fifty years ago today), Dubreq made the most of the record’s success by placing Stylophone adverts featuring Bowie in the music weeklies and trade magazines.
Bowie himself was keen enough on the handy little ‘pocket synthesizer’ to resurrect it for Slip Away on 2002’s Heathen album, and he even played it live right up until his final tour in 2004. The live picture here was taken during Slip Away by Total Blam Blam in Dublin on 3rd November, 2003.
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