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Stranger_Than_Fiction
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ONE SMALL STEP FOR (A) MAN
Guessed end date.
IN SUMMER 2002, journalist Andrew Smith (The Face, Observer) set out to find the men who’d walked on the Moon. Only 12 had ever set down on the surface, between the summer of ‘69 – about three weeks before Woodstock – and end of ’72, and no one had left Earth orbit since.
A chance encounter with one of the Moonwalkers changed all that. Smith found himself hearing about breakdowns, religious epiphanies and retreats into stony silence. The impossible-seeming feat had been executed with less computing power than the mobile phone, and held the entire world rapt.
One of the first things to strike Smith was the way music intersected the story at every turn. It swirled around the politics which gave rise to the Space Race, the people who conducted it (the average age of Mission Control staff was 26) and the astronauts themselves, who were allowed to take a cassette of their own music.
More than anything, though, the aim was to make a great album. The tracklist has been chosen by the author, who began his career as a music journalist at Melody Maker and spent three years as the Sunday Times’ chief rock critic.
What is the name of the David Bowie track that features on the Moondust soundtrack?
Answer: Moonage Daydream
Send your entry to: indielondoncomps@googlemail.com
Subject: Moondust competition
Searched URL, Moondust
Guessed end date.
IN SUMMER 2002, journalist Andrew Smith (The Face, Observer) set out to find the men who’d walked on the Moon. Only 12 had ever set down on the surface, between the summer of ‘69 – about three weeks before Woodstock – and end of ’72, and no one had left Earth orbit since.
A chance encounter with one of the Moonwalkers changed all that. Smith found himself hearing about breakdowns, religious epiphanies and retreats into stony silence. The impossible-seeming feat had been executed with less computing power than the mobile phone, and held the entire world rapt.
One of the first things to strike Smith was the way music intersected the story at every turn. It swirled around the politics which gave rise to the Space Race, the people who conducted it (the average age of Mission Control staff was 26) and the astronauts themselves, who were allowed to take a cassette of their own music.
More than anything, though, the aim was to make a great album. The tracklist has been chosen by the author, who began his career as a music journalist at Melody Maker and spent three years as the Sunday Times’ chief rock critic.
What is the name of the David Bowie track that features on the Moondust soundtrack?
Answer: Moonage Daydream
Send your entry to: indielondoncomps@googlemail.com
Subject: Moondust competition
Searched URL, Moondust
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