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Starman

Starman

Song by David BowieWikipedia

Search complete. 18 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Starman".

Oct 29, 2026

Andy EllenbergerUNKNOWN
6:18
course, yeah.
Pat RenwickHOST
6:19
Let's throw it back in the songbook.
Pat RenwickHOST
6:20
Give it up, Bass Galaxy.
Pat RenwickHOST
6:22
That's Alan Berger.
David BowieSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
78:18
That weren't no DJ, that was hazy cosmic jazz.
David BowieSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
78:27
There's a Starman waiting in the sky.
David BowieSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
78:32
He'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds.
David BowieSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
78:37
There's a Starman waiting in the sky.
David BowieSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
78:42
He's told us not to blow it 'cause he knows it's all worthwhile.
David BowieSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
78:46
He told me, "Let the children lose it.
David BowieSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
79:33
If we can sparkle, he may land tonigh-igh-ight.
David BowieSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
79:38
Don't tell your papa or he'll get us locked up in fright.
MattHOST
9:27
... song or two
BrettHOST
9:28
... and honestly I put key songs, Starman, David Bowie, one of my favorites.
BrettHOST
9:32
That's probably one of my favorite Dav- David Bowie songs.
BrettHOST
9:35
Um, some Donna Summer's on it, Gloria Gaynor.

29 MINS LATER

MattHOST
38:37
Okay, my number four is The Martian.
BrettHOST
38:41
Mm.
MattHOST
38:43
Um, it does have Starman by David Bowie, which is probably my favorite song from the whole thing.
MattHOST
38:49
It has Waterloo by Mamma Mia.
David BramwellGUEST
17:58
Um, and, and Boy George has told this story.
David BramwellGUEST
18:01
Countless other artists have told this story of being a young kid, turning on "Top of the Pops," and seeing this strange man called David Bowie singing "Starman"-
Philip Carr-GommHOST
18:10
Yeah
David BramwellGUEST
18:10
... um, and pointing at, pointing at the, you know, so Starman's, um, pointing at all the kids.
David BramwellGUEST
18:15
Uh, uh, and, and he's got this orange fluff of hair and dressed in a kind of blue onesie and, and-
Philip Carr-GommHOST
18:21
Yeah
Tony FletcherGUEST
1:09
I was also born in '64, and I'm, I'm...
Tony FletcherGUEST
1:13
I can be semi-proud that the first seven-inch that was consciously bought by me or my brother was Starman by Bowie.
David EastaughHOST
1:20
Right.
Tony FletcherGUEST
1:20
Uh, based, based right off that Top of the Pops legendary performance.
Tony FletcherGUEST
1:25
Um, but the deal really was, I, I remember watching it with my brother, um, and he was really just taken by it and wanted a copy of the single, 'cause that's what you did.
Tony FletcherGUEST
1:36
And it was the first time that my m- our, our mum took us up to record shop and said, "Right, you can each get a single," but I didn't know what to get once he got Starman, and I was genuinely stumped.
Tony FletcherGUEST
1:48
And so I ended up getting Could It Be Forever by David Cassidy.
David EastaughHOST
1:52
Classic.
PushHOST
10:56
So I'll read the map just quickly.
PushHOST
10:57
Starman, Life on Mars, Sorrow, Man Who Sold the World, TVC15, Space Oddity, Heroes, Boys Keep Swinging and Fashion.
PushHOST
11:07
I should have known that they carried on past the mid-70s then, with fashion being on there.
PushHOST
11:10
Well, exactly.

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