Top singles from the past
1 Augustus 2025
Eternal musical genius DAVID BOWIE scored one
of his many masterly hits with ASHES TO ASHES.
The classic stroke was released this
day 45 years ago, on 1 August 1980.
It topped the UK Singles Chart.
Bowie: “When I originally wrote about Major Tom, I was a very pragmatic and self-opinionated lad that thought he knew all about the great American dream and where it started and where it should stop. Here we had the great blast of American technological know-how shoving this guy up into space, but once he gets there he’s not quite sure why he’s there. And that’s where I left him.”
Later he said, jokingly, in an interview: “It really is an ode
to childhood, if you like, a popular nursery rhyme. It’s about
space men becoming junkies.”
It featured on his 14th LP, titled Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps).
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know Major Tom’s a junkie
Strung out in heaven’s high
Hitting an all-time low
