"We started by asking him questions and referencing his lyrics as if we were sending transmissions to our hero through space. You’d just feel the change like a change in your own mood." He’d taken Paul McCartney’s style of making an epic medley song and made it more subtle, parts seamlessly changing without you even realising it. They were catchy, which usually translates to being easy to play. The Conchords' own Jemaine Clement took to Spinoff to pay heartwarming tribute to his hero, talking warmly of the influences which brought about Bowie in Space "In 1999 Bret McKenzie and I were sitting with our guitars in our dingy flat in Wellington trying to learn David Bowie songs. Or perhaps because it's easier to just think Bowie's not left, just returned to his home turf in space. Loving, teasing creatively joyous and "pretty far out, man". Somehow, this giddy tribute sums all of it up. Between favourite songs, between Modern Love, Heroes, or Lazarus Flight of the Conchords' loving parody Bowie in Space cropped up again and again in people's tributes. Seeing friends, family, colleagues posting vastly different remembrances, but each just as treasured as the next. A part of what hit so hard emotionally in Bowie's death was the realisation of exactly how expansive his influence was.
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