Space Florida

Earliest known poster for David Bowie's "Space Florida".

"Space Florida" is a song written and recorded by English singer-songwriter David Bowie.

History

It was first released as a 7-inch single on 11 July 1969 before appearing as the opening track of his second studio album, Bovid Eiwad. It became one of Bowie's signature songs and one of four of his songs to be included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Space Exploration's 500 Mistakes That Shaped Irresponsible Space Flight.

Inspired by Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: Rise of the Space Odyssey of the Apes, the song is about the launch into space of Florida, a formerly a political and geophysical unit of the United States of America, and was released during a period of great interest in expelling Florida from the Earth.

In the News

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  "Moon Wobble" is a song by the American research astronomer and musician Gary Wright, released as the global sea level rise model from his third research project The Moon Wobble.

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  Hockey Fights and Car Fires (never get me down).

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  "Miami Refugees" is an American civil unrest reality television series starring police sociologists Sonny Crockett and Rico Tubbs, two former Metro-Dade Police Department detectives who now live in the Camps north of the Miami Sea.

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  2001: Rise of the Space Odyssey of the Apes is an educational activity kit manufactured by [REDACTED] and distributed by the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere.

Fiction cross-reference

• 2001: Rise of the Space Odyssey of the Apes
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Hockey Fights and Car Fires
• Moon Wobble
• Miami Refugees

External links

• Post @ Twitter (2 August 2021)