'Life On Mars?' is revenge on Frank Sinatra

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Bowie wrote 'Life On Mars' as a revenge on the song 'My Way'. I look at the similarities between the two songs to show how Bowie took the Sinatra classic and ventured off into new harmonic realms!

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After decades of knowing Life On Mars, and being familiar with My Way, I never put two and two together. Huh.

Lwize
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Hearing Bowie completely trash his own writing is somehow so funny when you think how he's written some of the most influential music of the last 50 years

tylerphillips
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Life On Mars is a masterpiece. It really is something else.

tonybates
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Just David Bowie's speaking voice alone is amazing

kcfreeman
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That is some 60s tea sis

Edit: Lol it's so funny how people fighting over a 3 letter word. I wrote my comment out of boredom and English not even my first language.
Edit no.2: Just got a notification 5 years after writing the original comment. Still find it funny how so many people were pressed at the comment I made as a 15 year old.

pavelpavel
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It's interesting to know too that David Bowie was a great fan of Frank Sinatra. When news of a movie based on Sinatra's life reached him, Bowie wanted to play the main role, but Frank said he didn't want someone queer (I'm using this term becaue I dont remember what he actually said, I only remember it being offensive) like Bowie to play him. David was devastated when he heard that.

EspaALSC
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There's actually a great lesson to learn from that! Bowie wrote a not-so-great song. One of his heroes at the time turned it down and he got really upset by it, believing that his song was good. So what did the man do? He turned it into the energy that fueled him in writing one of his greatest songs, lyrically and musically, a song that to this day is considered one of his most ambitious works and a song that massively boosted his popularity. It's not about turning lemons into lemonade-it's about replacing the rotten lemons you picked and were stolen from you with a freaking gourmet mango smoothie!!! That's just awesome

arielyemini
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As a Bowie fan, let's be honest here, Paul Anka's lyrics were much better suited to the song than Bowies (by his own admittance) terrible effort.

fridgemagnet
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Isn't it rather revenge on Paul Anka then?

gustavgnoettgen
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How ever highly you might think of Sinatra, he was not a songwriter.

Alsatiagent
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1:54 a singer called Paul Anka??? Everyone should know Paul Anka already, he's the guy who did "Put Your Head on My Shoulder"

rattyeely
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"I hate these lyrics. They're so awful. I'm embarrassed I even wrote them. What? Sinatra's not singing my amazing lyrics!?"

ndenz
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I wonder if "spit in the eyes of fools" from Life on Mars is a reference to When a Fool Learns to Love

WilliamAndrea
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My dad wants "my way" played at his funeral, but the version by sid vicious of the sex pistols.

slank
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As a big Bowie fan (and love Paul Anka) this was a super interesting video! Awesome to watch.

jolana_
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Worth watching all the way through just to see Tom Hanks stare in amazement at David

plunketgab
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Life on Mars is absolutely beautiful. I feel it in my soul. The Paris 1999 live version is truly everything!

CA-tzsg
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Just so you know, Claud François the one that did "comme d'habitude" that inspired "my way" was a true rock star in France when, he wasn't an obscure musician nobody knew he was the french first Rockstar along Johnny Hallyday those two were the equivalent of the Elvis "the king" Presley in France

michaelkeaton
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I honestly don't think too many people know that My Way is actually a cover.

erich
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Another fun fact. When Paul Anka covered Bon Jovi’s “It’s My Life”, which has the lyrics “like Frankie said I did it my way”, Anka sings “like Frankie said HE DID IT my way”. Like, ambiguously saying that Frankie dang my way AND that the song was Paul’s.

celocarvalho