{"id":2446572,"date":"2019-07-21T09:31:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T15:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=861654"},"modified":"2019-07-21T09:31:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T15:31:40","slug":"david-bowies-space-oddity-marks-50th-anniversary-with-new-video-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/david-bowies-space-oddity-marks-50th-anniversary-with-new-video-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bowie\u2019s \u2018Space Oddity\u2019 Marks 50th Anniversary With New Video, Mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-21-at-7.15.01-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>A new official music video for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/david-bowie\/\" id=\"auto-tag_david-bowie\" data-tag=\"david-bowie\">David Bowie<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/space-oddity\/\" id=\"auto-tag_space-oddity\" data-tag=\"space-oddity\">Space Oddity<\/a>\u201d premiered Saturday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of both the 1969 single and the Apollo 11 moon landing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe video features never before released footage of David Bowie performing \u2018Space Oddity\u2019 at his 50th birthday concert at Madison Square Garden in 1997,\u201d Bowie\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbowie.com\/blog\/2019\/7\/20\/space-oddity-video-in-washington-and-times-square-tonight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">official website<\/a> said of the new visual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is directed by Tim Pope, and includes footage shot and directed by Eduaord Lock, the founder and choreographer of the Montreal dance troupe La La La Human Steps, for the on screen back drop of Bowie\u2019s 1990 Sound &amp; Vision tour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 1990 footage was initially projected behind Bowie while he performed \u201cSpace Oddity\u201d during that trek; Bowie revived that live rendition of the 1969 track during his 50th birthday celebration. The new video also features longtime Bowie producer Tony Visconti\u2019s new 2019 mix of \u201cSpace Oddity,\u201d which features in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bandstores.co.uk\/shop\/davidbowie\/proddetail.php?prod=PS_DBOW_0196\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a 7\u2033 box set<\/a> tethered to the song\u2019s 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>The new \u201cSpace Oddity\u201d video premiered Saturday at a NASA event at Washington, D.C.\u2019s Kennedy Center commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing; a planned Times Square video screen premiere Saturday was ultimately called off due to high temperatures in the region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/david-bowie-space-oddity-50th-anniversary-new-video-mix-apollo-11-861654\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new official music video for David Bowie\u2019s \u201cSpace Oddity\u201d premiered Saturday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of both the 1969 single and the Apollo 11 moon landing. \u201cThe video features never before released footage of David Bowie performing \u2018Space Oddity\u2019 at his 50th birthday concert at Madison Square Garden in 1997,\u201d Bowie\u2019s official website [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 22:25:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}