Scottish band Pilot reached No. So I wrote the melody down on a piece of manuscript together with the chords. I could visualize in my head: G … Bm … Am … D. I pieced it together the next day and could hear the arrangement, hand claps, la la las. Three years earlier, David Bowie also released a classic track about space travel. So I kind of took that idea and ran with it. But that was only part of the story behind the song. That song put me in the mood for writing a lyric.

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