Fantastic Voyage (David Bowie song)
| "Fantastic Voyage" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Song by David Bowie | ||||
| from the album Lodger | ||||
| Released | May 18, 1979 | |||
| Recorded | Mountain Studios, Montreux; September 1978; Record Plant Studios, New York City, March 1979 | |||
| Genre | Art rock | |||
| Length | 2:55 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Songwriter(s) | David Bowie, Brian Eno | |||
| Producer(s) | David Bowie and Tony Visconti | |||
| Lodger track listing | ||||
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"Fantastic Voyage" is a song written by David Bowie and Brian Eno for the 1979 album Lodger. It has almost exactly the same chord sequence as "Boys Keep Swinging", from the same album.
Personnel
- David Bowie: Vocals, piano, background vocals
- Dennis Davis: Percussion
- George Murray: Bass
- Sean Mayes: Piano
- Simon House: Mandolin
- Adrian Belew: Mandolin
- Tony Visconti: Mandolin, background vocals
- Brian Eno: Ambient drone
Other releases
The song was released as a picture disc as a part of the Fashions Picture Disc Set.
Live versions
- "Fantastic Voyage" was performed for the first time on stage for the Reality Tour in 2003. According to biographer Nicholas Pegg, "It was a good choice politically as well as aesthetically: in the global climate of the Iraq war and its aftermath, the sentiments expressed in 'Fantastic Voyage' had never seemed more appropriate."[1] A November 2003 live performance is included on the A Reality Tour DVD, released in 2004, as well as the A Reality Tour album, released in 2010.
- It was one of the last songs Bowie performed live on stage before his retirement from live performances in late 2006 (alongside "Changes" and "Wild Is the Wind").[2]
Cover versions
- The song was covered and translated to Hebrew by Israeli singer Noam Rotem on his debut solo album in 2004.
- American indie rock band Shearwater performed a version of the song in May 2016 for The A.V. Club's A.V. Undercover series.[3]
References
- ↑ Nicholas Pegg, The complete David Bowie, Reynolds & Hearn, 2006, p.75.
- ↑ Gilmore, Mikal (2 February 2012), "How Ziggy Stardust Fell to Earth", Rolling Stone magazine (1149): 36–43, 68
- ↑ Meiburg, Jonathan (May 13, 2016). "Shearwater covers the entirety of David Bowie’s Lodger". The A.V. Club. Onion, Inc. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
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