DEF: Peter Schilling “Major Tom (Coming Home)”

Stuttgart, Germany-born musician Peter Schilling has hit the Top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart just once. In that one appearance, his song “Major Tom (Coming Home),” which was a retelling of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” climbed to number 14. On this date in 1983, “Major Tom (Coming Home)” was in the middle week of a three-week run at that peak position. Today, Peter Schilling’s biggest hit is the Daily Eighties Flashback.