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Fantastic Voyage (David Bowie song)

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Released
  
May 18, 1979

Length
  
2:55

Writer(s)
  
David Bowie, Brian Eno

Genre
  
Art rock

Label
  
RCA

Recorded
  
Mountain Studios, Montreux; September 1978; Record Plant Studios, New York City, March 1979

"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.

Contents

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." 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").

    • 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.

    • References

    Fantastic Voyage (David Bowie song) Wikipedia
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