“Star,” an Italo-disco version of Bowie’s “Starman” produced by Claudio Mingardi,  manages, in my opinion, to improve upon the original by flavoring it with 80s synth effects and vocoder - cheesy futurism that works the song into an electronic vibe that suits lyrics like “Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase/That weren’t no D.J. that was hazy cosmic jive.”

Images: Mission Mars and Fassbinder’s visionary Welt am Draht .

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