4 of the Greatest Characters Ever Created for Songs [Video]

A solid concept can turn a good song into an odyssey of storytelling, and these four bands and musicians did just that with their legendary tracks. Let’s take a look at just four of the greatest characters ever created for songs!

1. Major Tom from “Space Oddity” by David Bowie

“Space Oddity” is one of David Bowie’s most memorable songs, and Major Tom is one of his most legendary characters. Outside of Ziggy Stardust, of course.

Major Tom is an astronaut of Bowie’s invention that appears in “Space Oddity” as well as three other tracks from Bowie’s career. In a way, the character is Bowie. Or, in a way, the character can be seen as representative of Bowie’s existential crisis and views of the world. In “Space Oddity”, Major Tom struggles when seeing how small Earth really is, and opts to float through space instead of returning to the big blue planet and all of its problems.

2. Mrs. Robinson …