David Bowie and Virgin/EMI Celebrate 40th Anniversary of 'Space Oddity' With Commemorative Digital EP & App With Remix Features

David Bowie and Virgin/EMI Celebrate 40th Anniversary of 'Space Oddity' With Commemorative Digital EP & App With Remix Features

'Space Oddity' Digital EP and iPhone/iPod touch App Available Now for Download Purchase; Both Offer Unique Opportunity For Fans To Create Their Own Mixes of Song

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- David Bowie and Virgin/EMI are celebrating the 40th anniversary of Bowie's "Space Oddity" with the release of a commemorative digital EP and a new app for the iPhone and iPod touch. The digital EP, available now for download purchase from all major digital service providers, features four versions of "Space Oddity" plus its original eight multi-track stems, enabling fans to remix the song as they please using their own software or with iKlax software. iKlax's "Remix David Bowie - Space Oddity" app, available now on the iTunes App Store, also allows fans to become 'Ground Control' to remix the track their way.

Originally released on July 11, 1969 to coincide with the Apollo 11 moon landings, "Space Oddity" was featured by the BBC in its television coverage of the lunar event, and the song later won an Ivor Novello award. The song's enigmatic protagonist, Major Tom, has become a recurrent theme throughout Bowie's work and career, and was revisited in the song "Ashes To Ashes."

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DAVID BOWIE: "Space Oddity (40th Anniversary EP)" (digital)
1. Space Oddity (original U.K. mono single edit)
2. Space Oddity (U.S. mono single edit)
3. Space Oddity (U.S. stereo single edit)

4. Space Oddity (1979 re-record)

Notes to editors:

iKlax multitrack software for Mac or PC (www.iklaxmusic.com/davidbowie) allows fans to use the original eight multi-track stems from the EP without complicated home studio software. Users simply download the iKlax "Creator" software and follow the simple steps to remix and make the iKlax song file.

The iKlax 'Remix David Bowie - Space Oddity' app for iPhone and iPod Touch, sold on the iTunes App Store, provides fans with a unique and exciting opportunity to remix the individual tracks, including vocals, acoustic 12-string guitar, drums and bass, mellotron, organ and guitars, guitar solo, strings and other orchestration. Fans can "shake" the phone for random mixes and save their mix versions, all on the go - anytime, anywhere.

Source: Virgin/EMI

CONTACT: Jennifer Ballantyne of EMI Music North America,
+1-323-871-5494, jennifer.ballantyne@emicap.com

Web Site: http://www.davidbowie.com/

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