Born in Stuttgart, Germany, on January 28, 1956, Peter Schilling became an
international chart-topper in 1983, when "Major Tom (Coming Home)" — a synth-pop
single that reimagined the narrative of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" — climbed
to Number 1 in West Germany, Austria, Canada, and Switzerland. The song's
accompanying album, Error in the System, was recorded in English as well as
German, and released worldwide that same year. Schilling continued recording New
Wave material in both languages through the end of the 1980s, and earned a Top
10 hit in Sweden with the techno-inspired...