Five musicians we’d like to see sent to space.

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Sun 20 April 2025 12:00, UK

Music is a side of life built for fantasies, but sometimes reality is stranger than fiction. We all saw them, didn’t we? We all saw them in their nice blue space suits. We all saw them take a 14-minute ride into the great unknown on a ship bought and paid for by one of the world’s richest men. We all read about the shocking cost of the trip, both in terms of monetary value and environmental damage. It wasn’t just me, right?

It sure did feel like a particularly wonky fever dream, right? I mean, most of what Katy Perry does these days feels like that, I guess. She goes about life with all the unsettling inhumanity of an alien in disguise, desperately trying to work out how to appear human through context clues. But it feels churlish to criticise the individuals involved too much.

Let’s be real here, who among us would have turned down the opportunity to go to space? Not to mention how at least a couple of the people who stepped onto that ship did deserve to be there. Amand Nguyen is now the first woman of Vietnamese heritage to go to space. Aisha Bowe is a respected aerospace engineer; she had every right to be there. It’s pretty rad that they went right? Right?!

That’s just it, though; there are tons of other people who deserved to be there much more than Katy Perry, or Jeff Bezos’ missus or whoever else was on that cursed, depressing exercise in girlboss capitalism. Let’s have a look at five musicians who should have taken that trip up to the stars in their place, while always bearing in mind that, had he not already departed for the stars nearly a decade ago, David Bowie will always be number one on this list in our hearts.

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