This one’s a few days late. Again, life has kept me busy.
The music theme for February, which was Blobby’s turn to choose, is foreign-language music. Not so much native foreign-language music, but music sung by an artist where that’s not their native language.
I may have said “yes” too quickly to this one. I don’t even know that I know that many foreign-language songs, but I might know enough…
One nice thing about British artists, they tend to by multilingual, if at the least pidgin multilingual.
I was unaware of the German version of this song until after his death. SiriusXM did a limited engagement channel following his death. And this version of the song played.
David Bowie’s 1977 “Heroes”, in German:
Until next time...
we both went German
Next time you could do “Major Tom” by Peter Schilling, which is kind of a wink to “Space Oddity.” It was originally in German (apropos of him being German) but went all MTV breakthrough when it was done in English with this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db64QW-rsz4
Or do Schilling’s “A Different Story,” which I think he only did in English.