irrational solutions
In: Musica
27 apr 2009La canzone fù pubblicata nel 1971 da David Bowie nell'album Hunky Dory che fù però un disastro commerciale, tanto che l'uscita del singolo di "Life On Mars" tardò ad arrivare fino al 1973, quando Bowie era diventato una vera e propria star con l'album "concept" The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
La canzone assomiglia fortemente a "My Way" di Frank Sinatra ed infatti ha gli stessi accordi. Ma non solo...
Nel 1968 infatti Bowie scrisse il testo per una canzone francese "Comme, D'Habitude", chiamando la versione inglese "Even a fool learns to love". Non fù mai pubblicata, ma poco dopo il canadese Paul Anka ascoltò la canzone, decise di acquistarne i diritti e la riscrisse come "My Way" (come poi ha portato al successo Sinatra dovreste saperlo
).
Stà di fatto che, irritato per il mancato successo, Bowie decise di riscrivere "Life On Mars" come parodia di "My Way" (ed infatti nelle annotazione sull'album Hunky Dory c'era scritto "inspired by Frankie"...).
Non poteva essere altrimenti visto com'è strampalato il testo...
It's a God awful small affair
To the girl with the mousey hair
But her mummy is yelling, "No!"
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is no where 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 sadd'ning bore
For she's lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus onSailors
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 sadd'ning bore
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus onSailors
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?
Work in progress...
1 commento to Life on Mars
maso
aprile 27th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Manca l’ultimo verso:
“A little bit, on saturday night”