"Life On Mars?" (Live) - Chris Martin - Oakland, Fox Theater - April 30, 2016

David Bowie cover
"Notes & Words" benefit concert for the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland

[@mkzrv]

This song suits Chris’s voice very well. Beautiful cover.

[@gilly2209]

Chris Martin is a class act, in a world full of pop stars who love themselves, this man deserves total respect.

[@luisel7539]

He should cover it again and record it. That would make me so happy.

[@sezytess]

Shoutout to the girl that went there in flip flops

[@george.8888]

yolo flip flops move. balls of steal. respect

[@trustmeforreal6361]

At least its gucci🤣

[@alexxv13]

Stunning performance, the choir and Chris are perfect, absolutely stunning ...

[@Josh_GS__]

this man.. my god.. what a gift

[@evibakker4297]

Exactly 😍

[@elwachinmanda]

oh man, that was beautiful

[@Andrea-jd8iw]

i love you chris😙

[@popsugarcountrygirl726]

Me too.

[@kevserongun3193]

We need studio version

[@batmanc]

I'd love to hear a professional recording of him doing this with a choir. I think this song suits his voice more than Bowie's IMHO.

[@mursalimmursalim8516]

Your welcome kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4nXcoB9rLqkna8

[@carloseduardomorales9236]

@@mursalimmursalim8516 wtf is that

[@sorah3986]

@@mursalimmursalim8516 its bad, lol

[@MDWIMS]

... a genius song, a brilliant singer makes this a Perfect one 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@Squeaky1423]

Everyone misses David Bowie...R.I.P. beautiful starman.

[@gemiegeminist6194]

any song he sings or music he plays will sound nice, truly musician 😍😍😍

[@Josh_GS__]

he has such a natural talent.. I would be so happy to be just half the good that he is.

[@oldskool4572]

Chris Martin wakes up one morning and thinks "Its pretty fucking great to be Chris Martin"

[@madeleineandrasic7092]

absolutely beautiful

[@maxiris1240]

Damn the lower voice of chris always gives me chills

[@yasfishadriyah9998]

He should making studio version. Love it!

[@UtkarshBhardwaj1]

he's a magician!!! what a legend!

[@jnrmax66]

This is so imperfectly perfect

[@daffyddweetman4142]

Beautiful cover

[@omikujiscrap9962]

Beautiful ❤ love Bowie, love Chris, love the chorus band

[@marciia13]

I just love this

[@mariale2999]

I CRIED OKAY

[@frankduffy2413]

God l miss Bowie 🙏

[@roqueguardado4477]

I cried!

[@nicolasflamel5963]

What a great cover!

[@joaoadamssamora1495]

just amazing

[@Alpha4Seven]

Thanks for doing this......I really appreciate you uploading the entire show :)

[@markpalmer8083]

Uniquely genius composition. Possibility substance assisted. Fantastic performance.

[@Anssscmmm]

WHAT A GREAT COVER!!!!

[@sylvainaubry5688]

so sad he s gone .he was the last, the unique . RIp Mr DAVID BOWIE

[@craighudson7294]

Keep it simple and it comes out just fine. Well done.

[@clairegrant1667]

I loved that cover!

[@SparshVarshney]

This is perfect

[@user-cm4tb6he7w]

以前、別動画でクリスさんのLife On Mars?ピアノアレンジのみのを聴いて凄いこの曲が大好きになりました〜デビットボウイのオリジナルPVはビジュアル面の衝撃もあって（笑）ファンなのにきちんと楽曲に向き合っていなかった自分を反省しています😊火星へ帰ってしまった彼ですが、最近になって改めてボウイ本家動画、クリスさのカバー、海外の方々のピアノアレンジを毎日の様に聴いてます💖楽曲の素晴らしさは世代や国境を超えて永遠デス👍少し残念なのは日本ではカバーやピアノアレンジされてるのは現状少なくて。。。伝記映画「スターダスト」が来年公開予定？との情報も耳に入ってきてます〜何かのきっかけで彼の楽曲の魅力が多くの日本人に伝わって欲しいデス*\(^o^)/*

[@beatrizvidela5413]

CHRIS:MAGNIFICENT!THANKS.....KISS!...........1

[@alicki]

That fourth girl from the left (with glasses) is stunning.

[@jamesgindraw1314]

The richest of the choir voices amazing.

[@aikidoisthebombyeah]

that was beautiful when the choir chimed in on... "Mars..."

[@Goy_235]

Brividi

[@beatrizvidela5483]

Chris:Life on mars:sweet melody!good night!⭐1

[@lorecetas3821]

David would be proud

[@S-T-A-R-M-A-N]

Chris Bowie ❤

[@fedorvoronovcomposer]

He is really great at the piano, aint he

[@gustiagungayu3182]

Lovely song xx pupu

[@socratease1432]

Good stuff!

[@martadifelice7157]

very fine indeed

[@ChowMeinWarrior]

RIP David Bowie

[@redstars555]

0:38 start of the song

[@charlielohr5252]

wow!!!

[@JDoactive]

"Life on Mars" always seemed like a Coldplay type song to me anyway

[@cmcc3721]

Youre having a laugh. Chris Martin has more chance of winning the lottery than writing a piece like this

[@chocolatechipcookies5061]

Freezeyerar5eoff Mcd TRUE

[@mukikon5268]

Maybe it has the style of Viva la Vida album, like some kind of Romanticism style... and I frikin love that.

[@markpalmer8083]

@@cmcc3721 I tend to agree. But he doesn't take the same kind of substances.

[@jamesr141]

No spit in the eyes of fools? I bet they get the lyrics right in heaven, Chris.

[@baertomeneguzzi9181]

On my Birthday! How Wonderfall!

[@rs3155]

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 But her friend is nowhere to be seen Now she walks through her sunken dream To the seat with the clearest view And she's hooked to the silver screen But the film is a saddening bore For she's lived it ten times or more She could spit in the eyes of fools As they ask her to focus on Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man, look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars? It's on America's tortured brow That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow Now the workers have struck for fame 'Cause Lennon's on sale again See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads Rule Britannia is out of bounds To my mother, my dog, and clowns But the film is a saddening bore 'Cause I wrote it ten times or more It's about to be writ again As I ask you to focus on Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man, look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars?

[@sgl0d10n]

All the fucking 'WOO' in the background. If i were a famous singer like Chris, i'd tell them to shut up and listen to the music.

[@joshvlogs1535]

ikr

[@seanwalsh3926]

and that's exactly why you'll never be a famous singer haha

[@sgl0d10n]

Sean Walsh I'll never be a famous singer because i have respect for musicians, especially when paying tribute to someone that just died?

[@MrDelostboy]

Truffle 0 Shuffle they are backup singers also singing a tribute to david bowie

[@sgl0d10n]

delostboy I was talking about the audience I think :P

[@soenardhi]

💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓

[@JYMelody]

Nice song, Continue like that :)

[@mtnvalley9298]

'...is there life on MARRRSSSSssss?' 'cause it's quite debatable that life is here lately.

[@AngrySanta]

I live in a world without Prince, MJ and Bowie but garbage rap continues. I elect to restart the matrix

[@AngrySanta]

Classless This is the first I'm hearing of this. I'm sending a telegram to every associated newspaper I can think of.

[@aidan7899]

Angry Santa please do

[@tehSweezyy]

Why are you saying shit about rap? Do you know hip-hop's greatest musician? no shut the fuck up

[@AngrySanta]

Majin Buu I'm guessing your going to tell me some random name with symbols in it who's lyrics include mumbling, "slant rhyme" and bragging about money, Drugs and Women

[@henryoz4527]

you didn't even know the man. Do shut up

[@user-un8wt4nq2d]

57초부터 좋아요^^

[@jameszangrilli4125]

Nice

[@SnoOpDoGGfan100]

What did he put it in his mouth at 0:26 ?

[@chrisklinger5973]

SnoOpDoGGfan100 i'm also interested in what this is exactly...

[@izzyhzzy]

it's a throat balm, check out his howard stern interview back during the mylo days

[@AVOUREable]

Nobody really knows. It's not really tiger balm because you would never put that in your throat, but something similar. Haven't found it yet and the coldplay "oracle" that gathers fan questions couldnt answer it as well

[@declanmcdonnell6965]

Refined opium.

[@smithslinger]

7 people need to visit gene hunt

[@kbrodeur]

wow :) just wow :)

[@luisc.c5681]

This was April 30? And he had to be in Buenos Aires the next day?? 🤔

[@eliaallegri9009]

I swear if they don't stop with the "woo" I'm gonna commit not alive for them

[@RangaRajan]

*hooting and hollering stops*

[@wiiomar5015]

why is he playing on a piano with no front cover

[@christinebour9393]

what's the stuff he puts into his mouth before he starts singing ??

[@Lambitay]

I wonder what key is he in to?

[@robertoladrondeguevara3873]

Eb

[@poppiesndaisies]

0:24 What did he put in his mouth?? xD

[@Oreste2103]

+Natalia Lo He calls it singing oil :)

[@JackieTaco]

:o

[@ratacalva666]

Why?

[@JackieTaco]

Eric Harris para tener una better voice JAJAJJA :V

[@samgeee2968]

its tiger balm

[@sshep86]

I feel for that one guy in the choir trying ever so hard to hold his erection down. He was truly professional.

[@jamesgindraw1314]

Young Tim Curry could have did a good cover.😊

[@mojo8253]

i know people hate him and coldplay.... but this i can not hate

[@markpalmer8083]

Jealousy if anyone hates him..

[@seekay41]

I can take some reharmonization, but not really on this tune and definitely not on "It's about to be writ again..." That bass note is key to the tension of the this passage. Please do right by David Bowie. This classic song deserves to be played with the right harmonies.

[@pukarevis1140]

I agree. He absolutely ruins this masterpiece at precisely the finest single moment in the whole song. No wonder Bowie declined Martin's invitation to sit in on one of his songs he was recording.

[@jonclif1]

Chris is working with the singers and this really isn't about him or Bowie, at this specific performance. That's what great singers, musicians and writers are able to do, and perhaps explains in part why they are great.

[@seekay41]

As a musician, I will say that music is not just about the melody. The way the bass line interacts with the melody and what note of a chord is chosen for the bass line is integral to a song. Life On Mars is Life On Mars precisely because of the notes David Bowie chose in his bass line. How the song moves from one harmony to the next and the color of the emotion that accompanies the lyric is driven by the bass progression. When you lose that, you lose the heart of this song. To ignore that, or not to understand and stay true to the harmony does disservice to this song. This youtube video allows one to hear David Bowie's song the way it was written: kzbin.info/www/bejne/inndZqtmmbhonMU

[@oliverenerhaugen7004]

Christine Kim christine, as a fellow musician, i would gladly redirect you to a place called the internet, where you can find the definition of a cover. If you cant «take» the harmonies on this one, its actually only your problem, not the cover artists’.

[@robertoladrondeguevara3873]

@@seekay41 if you are a musician you will get that a cover is making other song yours!!! It’s not a copy!!

[@cmcc3721]

Chris Martin. Always late to the show. S'pose it woulda took him 3 or 4 months to learn a Bowie tribute song mind u

[@mrw2941]

Not a patch on Tom Chaplins attempt Such a drab voice

[@patriciacb9372]

What do you mean?

[@erlineandrews]

The Fall Out Boy cover is better.

[@big9305]

That is your opinion. Personally Chris Martin gives something in his performances that almost no one can give, this sort of magical performance that kind of draws you towards it. Dunno

[@rayaqin]

not sure if trolling or....

[@jimmy13United]

He doesn't really have the vocal range to do this song but still

[@markpalmer8083]

Did David?

[@Mysterywhiteboy78]

Wrong key dullard nasal Martin can't reach Bowie's register.

[@Mio-Vita]

He can't sing bless him

[@tristanfeinauer]

Funny!

[@robertoladrondeguevara3873]

Funny

[@markholland9826]

He needs to stick to his own songs . Not a good cover at all. Nice try.

[@oldaccount409]

Terrible. Just terrible. Utter bullshit compared to Bowie, but then again no-one can ever compare to Bowie.

[@redtopreviews205]

This is great. And I have 10 bowie tats and every album. I love bowie but this is great

[@simonfoster5585]

Absolutely awful - that was a tribute to David - you should be ashamed

[@samgeee2968]

Simon Foster Bowie was a Coldplay fan so who gives a shit what your opinion is

[@tristanfeinauer]

Relax !

[@wolfgangritter9277]

Awful???? Go, see a doctor and have your ears checked!

[@elisaaugeri8941]

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 But her friend is nowhere to be seen Now she walks through her sunken dream To the seat with the clearest view And she's hooked to the silver screen But the film is a saddening bore For she's lived it ten times or more She could spit in the eyes of fools As they ask her to focus on Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man, look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars? It's on America's tortured brow That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow Now the workers have struck for fame 'Cause Lennon's on sale again See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads Rule Britannia is out of bounds To my mother, my dog, and clowns But the film is a saddening bore 'Cause I wrote it ten times or more It's about to be writ again As I ask you to focus on Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man, look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars?