GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 Gets an Exciting New TV Spot with David Bowie's "Suffragette City"
Marvel has released another TV spot for James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and it features a song from David Bowie called "Suffragette City," which comes from the The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars album. This is the second song from the album that was used in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise. The first film features "Moonage Daydream," and it's good to see Gunn was able to get another song from that album like he was hoping. Gunn is a huge fan of Bowie, and he said this after the musician's passing:
"Bowie was an idol of mine, huge and omnipresent. Few artists in any field have had as an indelible impression upon me as he has. To my mind, Ziggy Stardust is perhaps the greatest rock and roll album of all time. We featured “Moonage Daydream” in Guardians, but I always thought the album’s character was felt far beyond that, in the aesthetics, in the integral and seemingly-natural linking in popular culture of ’70’s rock and space opera. I’ve been trying to work another song from Ziggy into the sequel, which would make Bowie the only artist to have a song on both Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. I thought this was fair and appropriate. Although I cut the scene it was used in from the script, we have the rights. Who knows. Maybe I can figure a way out."
There are a few bits of new footage in the spot as well that feature Groot plugging Star-Lord’s Walkman into a couple of giant speakers behind him. Talking about the music in the film, Gunn previously said:
"[The music] is all off the tape. It’s all off of Volume 2. I would say that the other Guardians now know that music is a thing for Peter, so in early scenes, what you see baby Groot here - which he’s just ‘Groot’ in the movie, but on set we call him baby Groot - he’s setting up these little outer space speakers so that the music can play for all of them, because Quill likes to hear music when he’s fighting."
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is set to be released on May 5th. To catch up on all of our Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 news and watch the trailers that have been released, click here.