Happy National Science Fiction Day! Released in 1969, David Bowie's "Space Oddity" was inspired by Stanley Kubrick's film 2001.
Space Oddity; Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
- Description (Brief)
- David Bowie. side 1: Space Oddity; side 2: Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud (Mercury 72949)
- 45 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- recording artist; composer
- Bowie, David
- manufacturer
- Mercury
- date made
- 1969
- Credit Line
- The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music
- Physical Description
- vinyl (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 in; 17.78 cm
- Object Name
- sound recording
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