1 David Bowie
Diamond Dave’s whole career has basically been about space, space, space. First he started fretting about Major Tom getting lonely out in orbit and becoming a junkie, and then he went on to play your actual space alien in 'The Man Who Fell To Earth', get excited by the 'Starman', and more recently start 'Loving The Alien'. Perhaps he is actually a space alien. He has got kind of funny eyes.
2 Lance Bass
We never really noticed Lance when he was in *NSync, because he wasn’t Justin, JC or one of the ones with humorous face-fuzz. But we noticed when he announced that he was going to be the first pop star to go into space. Except then he didn’t go into space, because the Russians wouldn’t take him or something. Never mind, he’s starring in ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’ now. Brilliant!
3 Paul McCartney
Fab Macca Wacky Thumbs Aloft played a concert to some cosmonauts who were in actual outer space this year. They seemed extremely excited, but then anything would excite you if you’d been sat in a tin can going round and round and round for 15 months.
4 Sister Bliss
You know, her out of Faithless. She DJed in zero gravity in a freefall simulator type thing at Star City in Moscow, but only for ten seconds. So not enough time to actually play any records, then.
5 Blur.
They actually sent a song to Mars on the Beagle Explorer, courtesy of that Open University bloke with the comedy bumpkin accent and the sideburns. Sadly, the Beagle Explorer was made out of lolly sticks and sticky-back plastic and broke before it got there. Oh well.
6 Sun Ra
This most loopy of jazz fruit loops maintained throughout his whole life that he was from Saturn, dressed in accordingly peculiar alien garb and yelled about watching the news from Neptune. And you know what? Listen to his brain-explodingly odd music and you’ll believe him.
7 George Clinton
Of Parliament / Funkadelic fame. Had a huge ‘mothership’ on stage. Took billions of drugs, mind.
8 Neil Young
Sang about silver spaceships taking the chosen ones away – again, drugs.
9 The Orb
Forged an entire music career out of simulating a space-type environment just through the means of hypnotic beats and little bleeps and stuff. If you listened to the Orb and felt like you were floating around amid the stars and whatnot, then it was probably working. Either that or it was the drugs.
10 Babylon Zoo
Back in the days when being on a Levi's ad guaranteed world domination, the 'Zoo topped the charts with a song about getting a spaceman to go into space… er… oh anyway, the good bit that everyone liked, which was on the advert, wasn't on the real song. Which was rubbish.
11 Keith Moon
Named after the moon, which is in space!
12 The Carpenters
Called occupants of interplanetary craft!
13 The Rah Band
Had a big hit with ‘Clouds Across The Moon’ about the signal breaking up when a lady is talking to her astronaut husband!
14 Jonathan King
‘Everyone’s Gone To The Moon!’ he sang. Then he did bad things and went to prison.
15 Sarah Brightman
She lost her heart to a starship trooper. Later she lost it to Andrew Lloyd Webber. We don’t know which is freakier.
16 Joe Meek
He made ‘Telstar’, which is about space, and is Margaret Thatcher’s favourite record. Then he killed his landlady and himself.
17 The Police
Walked on the moon, but unfortunately brought Sting back with them instead of leaving him there.
18 Brian Eno
Made floaty ambient soundtracks for moon rocket documentaries, but more importantly has a big round baldy head – a bit like a planet!
19 Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry
Claims to be an ‘African alien’. Then again, he also says his boy bit is Jesus and that he has ‘good souls’ in his suitcase. Again, drugs may be involved.
20 Space
Jaunty scousers named after space itself! We have no idea why – we don’t remember them actually singing about space. How very 'rum'.
