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Life on Mars?
Life on Mars? es una canción del artista británico David Bowie publicada en diciembre de 1971 en el álbum Hunky Dory. La canción, que posteriormente sería definida por BBC Radio 2 como "un cruce entre un musical de Broadway y un cuadro de Salvador Dalí", contó con participación del pianista Rick Wakeman. Después de ser lanzada como single en 1973, alcanzó el 3º puesto en la lista de éxitos del Reino Unido en la cual se mantuvo durante 13 semanas. La canción volvió a entrar en el ranking 30 años después al ser utilizada en la serie de televisión Life on Mars.
Neil McCormick, crítico musical del Telegraph, la situó como la primera de las 100 mejores canciones de todos los tiempos.También comento sobre la canción:
Un glorioso y extraño himno, donde la combinación de agitación, melodía, anhelo de vida e imágenes poéticas logra un efecto muy particular al arte de la canción: ser a la vez completamente impenetrable y sin embargo resonante con significado personal. Quieres levantar la voz y cantar, pero las frases abstractas de la letra de Bowie te obligan a completar la canción con algo de ti mismo sólo para dar sentido a la experiencia musical. Y, como todas las grandes canciones, tiene una melodía preciosa.
Origenes
En 1968 Bowie escribió la letra "Even a Fool Learns to Love", con la música de una canción francesa de 1967 " Comme d'habitude ", compuesta por Claude François y Jacques Revaux . La versión de Bowie nunca fue publicada, pero Paul Anka compró los derechos de la versión original en francés, y lo volvió a escribir en " My Way " ("A mi manera"), popularizada por Frank Sinatra en una grabación de 1969 en su álbum del mismo nombre . El éxito de la versión Anka llevó a Bowie a escribir "Life on Mars?" como una parodia de la grabación de Sinatra.
La letra
Life on Mars?
It's a God-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling no
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen
But the film is a saddening bore
For she's lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
David Bowie
It's a God-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling no
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen
But the film is a saddening bore
For she's lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
David Bowie
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