This song is a cover of the Ziggy-inspiring "Legendary Stardust Cowboy (the Ledge)". Bowie covered it after reading on the Ledge's homepage that he was rather insulted by Bowie stealing a part of his name and making it so succesfull. He was never paid any royalties (for inspiration!??!) and he hated that. "At least he could cover one of my songs," he wrote on his webside. So Bowie did, the strange thing is just that it isn't mentioned on the CDcover (Heathen) that the song's not written by Bowie himself. But maybe he believes that by giving the song another name ("i took a trip in a gemini spaceship" - which it is called in Bowie version, although he sings 'spacecraft') he has rewritten it. Who knows?
This song is a cover of the Ziggy-inspiring "Legendary Stardust Cowboy (the Ledge)". Bowie covered it after reading on the Ledge's homepage that he was rather insulted by Bowie stealing a part of his name and making it so succesfull. He was never paid any royalties (for inspiration!??!) and he hated that. "At least he could cover one of my songs," he wrote on his webside. So Bowie did, the strange thing is just that it isn't mentioned on the CDcover (Heathen) that the song's not written by Bowie himself. But maybe he believes that by giving the song another name ("i took a trip in a gemini spaceship" - which it is called in Bowie version, although he sings 'spacecraft') he has rewritten it. Who knows?