Peter Schilling ( Pierre Michael Schilling by his full name), born January 28, 1956 in Stuttgart (Germany) is a German Synthpop musician, known especially for Major Tom titles (1983) and Different Story (World of Lust and Crime) (1989).
His work often deals with science-fiction themes (nuclear holocaust, extraterrestrials, cosmonauts), as in his 1983 album, Error in the System, inspired by the 1969 David Bowie classic, Space Oddity. It is to this album that belongs his only big international success, Major Tom (Coming Home), sung initially in German, then in English.