Here's an interesting link someone posted over at LiveJournal. JGL doing a "cover" of a song his brother loved:
http://hitrecordjoe.tumblr.com/post/1697672281/major-tom-coming-home-originally-by-peter
Wow, great! Oh, I have always loved this song too - I especially love it sung in German "Völlig losgelöst". It has a fantastic ending too.
I never realized that JGL was so musical - I love the songs he chooses and his interpretations of them. A very creative guy. I'm glad music is helping him through this difficult time for him, a little at a time. Good to see him back!
I just reread this whole thread.
Imagine my surprise about the above quoted.
I never knew there was an English version of Major Tom, or that anyone outside of Germany actually knew the song!
I really disliked NDW* when it happened, and still dislike it today. But Major Tom was one of the few songs from it I did like.
*NDW = Neue Deutsche Welle (literally: new German wave
). A flood of German singing popstars with incredibly stupid songs and lyrics, which were suddenly totally hip in the 80ies. But then, I never liked the 80ies too much anyway. I boycotted the attire, I boycotted the hair, and for a good deal also the music. I was a teenager and simply against
anything others liked, lol. I was the girl who never missed a chance for strife.