6. Life On Mars? - David Bowie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v--IqqusnNQ In David Bowie's abstract lyrics we make out the story of a young girl who is enamoured by the wonder of cinema, and earning for a better world. "I think she finds herself disappointed with reality... that although she's living in the doldrums of reality, she's being told that there's a far greater life somewhere, and she's bitterly disappointed that she doesn't have access to it", said Bowie about his composition. Although it famously uses the same chord progression as My Way, Life On Mars? has a tone that substitutes the triumph of Sinatra's recording with bitter disenchantment. A very young Rick Wakeman, at that time just a session musician, played the memorably adorned piano part in this classic. This song has been used extensively in television and film, most famously in the homonymous TV show and its American remake.
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