"Life on Mars?" was a single by David Bowie first released in 1971 on the album Hunky Dory. The song featured guest piano work by keyboardist Rick Wakeman, subsequently of Yes.
The single reached UK #3 and stayed in the UK chart for 13 weeks. The song re-entered the UK charts at #55 over 30 years later, largely because of a TV show by the same name that uses the song.
In February 1999, Q magazine listed the single as one of the 100 greatest singles of all time, as voted by the readers. It has continued to chart in the Q 'best of' polls, featuring most recently in 2006 at #45. A BBC Radio 2 poll in 1986 crowned it as the best David Bowie song of all time.
This song had its own multiple-minute 'solo' in Wes Anderson's film The Life Aquatic, a film which, besides this song, features cover versions of many of Bowie's older singles.
