David Robert Jones (8 de enero de 1947 y fallecido el 10 de enero de 2016), más conocido como David Bowie, era un cantante polifacético, inclasificable dentro de un solo género, ya que su música involucra diversos estilos musicales como el rock, el pop y la música electrónica. Fue también compositor, multiinstrumentista, productor, artista plástico y actor británico, fuertemente influyente en varias generaciones. Fue un ícono de la música y uno de los músicos más influyentes de la música contemporánea.
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
Song: Life On Mars? Artist: David Bowie Album: Hunky Dory, 1971 URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v--IqqusnNQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_%28song%29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kPDJQBtHaY (Live) Tempo: 4|4 Style: Weimar & French Cabaret Style Tuning: Standard
Capo 3
Chords EADGBe D XX0232 F#m/C X44222 F#dim7/C X34242 B X24442 Em 022000 G/D XX0002 A7 X02020 F/C X33211 C#aug XX3221 (I/F) or Fret 9 (IX) Dm XX0231 Eb XX1343 Bb X13331 Bbaug X10332 Gm 355333 Bb7/F XX3334 G 320003 C X32010 Ebaug XX1003 Em7 020000 Am7 X02010 Cm7 X35353 C#m7b5 X4545X Ebdim7 XX1212 Bdim X2343X F#m 244222 Cm X35543
INTRO:(Piano over) |D |
VERSE 1: DF#m/C#F#dim7/C It's a god-awful small affair, BEm To the girl with the mousy hair. G/DA7 But her mummy is yelling "No!”, D And her daddy has told her to go. F#m/CF#dim7/C But her friend is nowhere to be seen. BEm Now she walks, through her sunken dream. G/DA7 To the seat with the clearest view, F/C And she's hooked to the silver screen. C#augDm But the film is a saddening bore. EbBb For she's lived it ten times or more. BbaugGm She could spit in the eyes of fools, Bb7/F As they ask her to focus on…
CHORUS 1: GC Sailors fighting in the dance hall. Em7 Oh man! EbaugD Look at those cavemen go, DmAm7 It's the freakiest show. Cm7G Take a look at the Lawman, CEm7 Beating up the wrong guy. EbaugD Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know, DmAm7 He's in the best selling show. Cm7Em7 Is there life on Mars?
VERSE 2: DF#m/C#F#dim7/C It's on Amerika's tortured brow. BEm That Mickey Mouse, has grown up a cow. G/DA7 Now the workers, have struck for fame. D 'Cause Lennon's on sale again, F#m/CF#dim7/C See the mice in their million hordes. BEm From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads, G/DA7 Rule Britannia is out-of-bounds. F/C To my mother, my dog and clowns. C#augDm But the film is a saddening bore, EbBb 'Cause I wrote it, ten times or more. BbaugGm It's about to be writ again, Bb7/F As I ask you to focus on…
CHORUS 2: GC Sailors fighting in the dance hall. Em7 Oh man! EbaugD Look at those cavemen go, DmAm7 It's the freakiest show. Cm7G Take a look at the Lawman, CEm7 Beating up the wrong guy. EbaugD Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know, DmAm7 He's in the best selling show. Cm7Em7 Is there life on Mars?
Very low frequency, Reprise of the INTRO Piano (Fade Out) |(D) |
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NOTES: 1. “…In 1967 Claude Francois recorded Comme d’habitude, a song that became pretty fast famous in the USA. At that time a young David Bowie was commissioned to rewrite and sing the lyrics in English, hoping to give a larger diffusion to his debut record and earn popularity across the States. Even a Fool learns to Love, as the song was retitled, was unfortunately never released. Paul Anka, with a huge sense of business, bought the rights of that French song and rewrote it into the famous My Way. In a short time that version reached a huge popularity thanks to Sinatra’s interpretation. … 2. “…But what’s the point of quoting Mickey Mouse, John Lennon and a bunch of workers in the lyrics? To clear this point is to remind a huge Disney’s animators strike during the 40s. That fact (“a god-awful small affair” as Bowie sing) showed how the company turned arts and entertainment into factories and products. The “girl with the mousy hair” is quite bored of the repetitive work is doing (“she’s lived it ten times or more”) but it seems like there’s no way out: the revolution became a product itself, the idealism is ready to be sold on silver screens and dance halls. Even the 60s student protests turned into a brand. That’s the reason why Lenin-Lennon was once again up for sale. Life on Mars itself became a best seller from being an anti-showbusiness hymn. …” https://musicblob.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/david-bowie-life-on-mars/ 3. “…Bowie noted that Wakeman "embellished the piano part" of his original melody and guitarist Mick Ronson "created one of his first and best string parts" for the song.[1] The liner notes for Hunky Dory indicate that the song was 'inspired by Frankie'. …” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_%28song%29 4. This is simply ‘my take’ on how this might have been accompanied. By using the Capo on the third fret, (with deference to v.11, post my submission) it reduces the CHORUS to simple open chords. This version captures Mick Ronson's textured arrangements of the BRIDGE and the CODA. Feel free to transpose or simplify to suit your playing style. I believe that it comes very close to the spirit of the original. :-R