Major Tom – Peter Schilling


Track of the week 7/8/16

This track was used as the opening theme tune of Deutchsland 83 which I watched and enjoyed at the start of the year. A drama series following a young soldier from East Germany sent to spy in the West in the early eighties – a great piece of TV.

I’ve been re-watching Breaking Bad (another – even better- bit of TV) and there was a snippet of this track in it: Hank showed Walt & Walt Junior a dvd with Gale Boetticher (the chemist assigned to help Walt in the mega lab, who Jesse shot) singing this song and it firmly planted an ear worm in my head, hence it makes it’s appearance as this week’s track of the week.

You can see the whole of Gale’s karaoke version here:

 

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