To boldly go…

Tomorrow (Thursday October 4th) is the 60th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik and the beginning of the Space Race.

Space and space travel really shaped my childhood imagination in a way that cowboys did my father’s.

So what piece of music should I be playing to celebrate the fact?

Blue Danube waltz? Planet Claire by the B52s? Starman by Bowie? Life on Mars ditto? Silvermachine by Hawkwind?

What do you think? We’ll work out a Space Race playlist – a top 10, maybe