Space Oddity - The Single
The front and back? of the UK covers.
Songs (Time)
- Space Oddity (Bowie)
- The Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
(Bowie)
- Release Details
- Released by Philips in the UK, July 11 1969
- Released by Mercury in the US, July 1969
- Catalogue number: Philips BF 1801 (UK), Mercury 72949 (US)
- Released in picture sleeve in the US
Space Oddity
- Producer
- Gus Dudgeon
- Musicians
- David Bowie: vocals, guitar and stylogram
- Herbie Flowers: bass
- Terry Cox: drums
- Rick Wakeman: piano
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
- Producer
- Tony Visconti
- Musicians
- David Bowie: vocals and guitar
- Paul Buckmaster: cello
Trivia
- A hit almost before it left David's pen, it aroused
strong emotions. Marc Bolan loved it, Tony Visconti hated it.
After a slow start, it eventually reached Number 5 in the UK and
marked the beginning of the next stage of Bowie's career.
- The version of The Wild Eyed Boy
From Freecloud is a different version to that on the
Space Oddity album. The B-side
on this is a stripped down instrumental version rather than a whole
orchestra.
- Chart Performance:
| Country | Peak # | # of weeks |
| UK | 5 | 14 |
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