David Bowie - Letter to Hermione - 1969

Letter to Hermione is a song from David Bowie's 1969 album Space Oddity. It contains a mix of folk, balladry, and prog rock. Held to be "the first Bowie album proper", and his first deemed worthy by record companies of regular reissue, Space Oddity featured a notable list of collaborators, including session players Herbie Flowers, Tim Renwick, Terry Cox, and Rick Wakeman, as well as cellist Paul Buckmaster, multi-instrumentalist and producer Tony Visconti, and bassist John Lodge.

"Letter to Hermione" is a song written by David Bowie in 1969 for the album Space Oddity. This ballad is a love letter to Hermione Farthingale, who Bowie met through Lindsay Kemp. She became Bowie's girlfriend and they lived together for a short while in London in 1968. In early 1969 she left Bowie for Stephen Reinhardt, an American musician and dancer she met on the film Song of Norway.


An early name for the song was "Im Not Quite". Bowie recorded a demo version of the song with this name together with John Hutchinson in February 1969.

Comedian Ricky Gervais has repeatedly expressed his love for this song, going so far as to call it his favourite David Bowie song, indeed, possibly his favourite ever song. He chose it as one of his Desert Island Discs.

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[maureenOWW]

It's not my video. Howevr, I suspect it was from a 'camera'.

[KarlMarkis]

@maureenOWW lol actually I didn't use a camera to create this, I just have the mp3 and slapped a pic over it in Sony Vegas Pro and the vid was good to go.

[enriMindTrip]

erik-enri qsi un anno dopo_

I tear my soul to cease the pain

I think maybe you feel the same

What can we do?

[samucalencar1]

Holy shit, I love this song.

[MenNoHorses]

MEN NO HORSES

[FeltDrummer023]

@KarlMarkis Would you mind sending some my way? The artwork is absolutely top notch, and I mean come on how can you not love Bowie. He transcends music.

[KarlMarkis]

@PrincessAmy777 Thanks for the recognition, its only from the support of random YouTubers like you that I find the strength to get up every morning and continue living. I have an artist friend who loves Bowie, especially the Major Tom persona, and this is one of his many Bowie pieces. I can e-mail you some of his work if you're interested.

[PrincessAmy777]

@FactualTruthProvider LOL! Karl's a genius. :P

I don't suppose you could tell me where you got the picture in this video from?

Much appreciated.

[MrDataCode]

One of my fav bowie songs