Today we have a piece of outsider art to share from an artist whose influence has reached far and wide. The work represented here is an outrageous take on Jimmy Van Heusen's "I Thought About You".
Starting in the late 60s, Legendary Stardust Cowboy found an audience on TV (Laugh In), in NASA scientists, and perhaps his most famous fan: David Bowie. Bowie once said of the artist, "When I first joined Mercury Records in the late 60s, he was one of the only other artists they had. And they gave me his entire catalogue, which at the time was three singles. I immediately fell in love with his music. Well actually, the IDEA of his music. As the music itself wasn't too recognizable as being such." Bowie later performed his own version of this song, and has credited him as inspiration for naming his stage persona Ziggy Stardust. Legendary Stardust Cowboy responded by covering Bowie's "Space Oddity".
We hope you enjoy today's song:
Legendary Stardust Cowboy - I Took A Trip on A Gemini Spaceship
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