Evans and raynold gideon, with dean riesner making uncredited rewrites. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of david bowie's legendary starman performance on top of the pops The performance changed the course of music forever. Such is the beauty of john carpenter's 'starman' His gentle alien comes in the form of a human clone (jeff bridges), and as we watch him interact with the rest of our race, we see both the good and the bad in all of us. The first single from david bowie’s the rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars album, “starman” is arguably one of the most influential and iconic songs in the bowie catalog.
Knocked off course, the starman lands in rural wisconsin, where it becomes the identical clone of a dead house painter The painter’s widow (karen allen) is stunned when she sees this creature from beyond the grave. Offering his message of the youth’s salvation by an alien referred to as ‘starman’, david bowie’s glam rock anthem incited a revolution.
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