Album of the Day

David Bowie’s self-titled second studio album was released 50 years ago this month; opening track “Space Oddity” became the performer’s first trans-Atlantic hit. Inspired by Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the song had gained huge popularity when it was adopted as the unofficial theme of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission that launched five days after the single’s release. In honor of the golden anniversary, longtime Bowie producer/collaborator Tony Visconti has remixed the track in 360 Reality Audio music format, a new 3D audio from Sony. “You might have heard ‘Space Oddity’ 200 times,” he notes. “When you hear this I guarantee you will listen another 200 times. It’s a new way of hearing the song.”