“I'm just the space cadet...he's the commander“
Canadian Astronaut Colonel Chris Hadfield's debut album, Space Sessions - Songs From A Tin Can, is scheduled for launch on Friday October 9th, 2015 and it includes his world-famous rendition of David Bowie’s Space Oddity as a bonus track.
Space Sessions - Songs From A Tin Can is apparently the first album recorded entirely in space, or at least it is as far as we are aware. Hadfield recorded the 12-song collection while serving as commander of the International Space Station during Expedition 34/35, which ran from December 2012 to May 2013.
He announced the album and several music-merchandise combinations via twitter, saying that they are all now available for preorder from his Shopify site, which indeed they are.
FOOTNOTE: For those of you that don’t recognise it, today's 'lyric quotation' is in fact a line delivered by an American fan regarding Bowie, from Alan Yentob’s classic Cracked Actor documentary.
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