David Bowie felt the same way about "Space Oddity" that Radiohead feel about "Creep." He recognized that it launched his career and he was fond of it in a certain way, but it also felt like juvenilia he'd rather not have been forced to re-live when he did a concert. He put it away at the end of the
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Flashback: David Bowie Plays ‘Space Oddity” at 50th Birthday Concert