"Life on Mars?" is a song by English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was first released on his 1971 album "Hunky Dory" and later released in 1973 as a single. The song has cryptic lyrics by Bowie and prominent piano by Rick Wakeman. As a single, "Life on Mars?" reached number three in the UK Singles Chart and stayed on the chart for thirteen weeks. A music video was filmed by Mick Rock to promote the single release.

In 2015 Neil McCormick, chief rock music critic of 'The Daily Telegraph', ranked the song as number one in his "100 Greatest Songs of All Time" list. In 2016, Pitchfork named it the best song of the 1970s.

Bowie, at the time of "Hunky Dory's" release in 1971, summed up the song as "A sensitive young girl's reaction to the media." In 1997, he added: "I think she finds herself disappointed with reality... that although she's living in the doldrums of reality, she's being told that there's a far greater life somewhere, and she's bitterly disappointed that she doesn't have access to it."

The opening verse to Life on Mars? is:

It's a God-awful small affair

To the girl with the mousy hair

But her mummy is yelling no

And her daddy has told her to go

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