Life On Mars? (Live At A Bowie Celebration 2021)

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## Life On Mars? (Live At A Bowie Celebration 2021)

### Label

Locomotion, Interscope, Rolling Live Studios

### Producers

Kerry Brown
Mike Garson

"**Life On Mars? (Live At A Bowie Celebration 2021)**", released 18 March 2021, is YUNGBLUD's fifth Non-album single. The song is a cover of "*Life On Mars?*" by David Bowie, YUNGBLUD sung it as a tribute to Bowie during a tribute stream called *A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day!*

## Background

In January 2021, for a tribute stream called *A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day!*, YUNGBLUD joined Rick Wakeman and the Bowie alumni band to cover classic hit *Life On Mars?*, with YUNGBLUD uploading an Instagram story after the stream enthusing: *"Doing that Bowie concert last night was one of the best fucking experiences in me life. I think it's really rare when you kind of feel your fucking idols and someone you have literally based everything and your whole existence around. I felt like I met him somehow last night and it was the best night of my life. It felt like I was on a different planet and he was fucking there with me. I know it sounds mental as fuck. I will post it later today. I can't wait for you all to see it, I sang Life On Mars? and it was mental."*.

In February 2021, the cover was chosen as the song to play when NASA's Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars. A month after that, the cover was released as a single.

## Lyrics

\*Lyrics obtained from Genius\*

[Verse 1]

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 on the silver screen

[Pre-Chorus]

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

[Chorus]

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?

[Verse 2]

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

For 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

[Pre-Chorus]

But the film is a saddening bore

Because I wrote it ten times or more

It's about to be writ again

All I ask you to focus on

[Chorus]

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?

## Credits

*Credits adapted from TIDAL.*

* Dominic Harrison — vocalist
* David Bowie — lyricist, composer
* Kerry Brown — engineer, producer, mixer
* Mike Garson — producer, piano
* Mark Plati — acoustic guitar, bass guitar
* Catherine Russell — background vocalist
* Richard Dodd — cello
* Sterling Campbell — drums
* Will Taylor — engineer
* Earl Slick — guitar
* Gerry Leonard — guitar
* Leah Katz — viola
* Daphne Chen — violin
* Eric Gorfain — violin

## References

1. ↑ Kerrang! — "YUNGBLUD pays tribute to David Bowie with emotional Life On Mars? cover". Published 11 January 2021. Written by Emily Carter. Retrieved 22 May 2022. Archived
2. ↑ NME — "Yungblud’s cover of ‘Life On Mars’ played during NASA Mars landing". Published 18 Feburary 2021. Written by Rhian Daly. Retrieved 22 May 2022. Archived
3. ↑ BBC — "Yungblud 'honoured' to have David Bowie cover played on Mars". Published 19 February 2021. Retrieved 22 May 2022. Archived
4. ↑ Rolling Stone — "Yungblud Releases Cover of David Bowie’s ‘Life on Mars?’". Published 18 March 2021. Written by Claire Shaffer. Retrieved 10 June 2022. Archived
5. ↑ TIDAL — "Credits / Life On Mars? (Live At A Bowie Celebration 2021) / YUNGBLUD - TIDAL". Published 17 March 2021. Retrieved 22 May 2022.