David Bowie- Life On Mars?

他的身分多重，他的聲音變化多端。他的行為無法意料，他是流行樂界性別運動先鋒，影響無數娛樂、大眾觀感，無論1970年代你喜不喜歡他，你絕對認識他，因為他在全英觀眾收視率最高的綜藝節目上歌唱直播，而且是用妖媚的形象，搭上同性的樂手的肩。那是對保守社會的宣戰嗎？不，那是意味：我在這，我與你們同在。
奇裝異服的大衛鮑伊，他是任「性」而活的自由人，是所有社會邊緣人及徬徨少年、失志青年的偶像，做出他們最想做的事，在一般社會大眾的眼光下，自然地展現真我，無畏懼任何壓力。
他也是「某些組織」不認可的「異端」。
儘管從未宣教。卻是普世教會的眼中釘、肉中刺，因為他的影響力無遠弗屆。但教會、保守派詆毀他的人可曾想過：大衛鮑伊以一種象徵拯救、啟發無數的人，而那些之後開始「做自己」的人，也如他們的偶像一樣，開始幫助別人「找自己」，幫助更多需要幫助的人。
遠比某些「偽神」入世得多。那些「偽神」只顧自己，不顧別人。
忙著樹敵，區分彼此。
曲解經典，所以神都不神了。
信徒逐漸式微，投向更為高尚、理想且符合人性的另一方。

David Bowie- 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?
作詞/作曲：David Bowie

這首歌在搖滾樂史上非常重要，2015年每日電訊報的Neil McCormick選的''100 Greatest Songs of All Time''，評為第一名。音樂媒體Pitchfork則評為the best song of the 1970s。70年代最好的歌。有趣的是這手跟法蘭克辛納屈的<<My Way>>頗有淵源，是戲仿，但風味完完全全不一樣。
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<Life On Mars?>收錄於1971年的<<Hunky Dory>>專輯，B面"The Man Who Sold the World"，並在1973年發行單曲。