Ashes To Ashes

DAVID BOWIE – Timeless Masterstroke ‘ASHES TO ASHES’ Released 40 Years Ago Today…

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8 August 2020

Artist: David Bowie
Song: Ashes To Ashes
B-side: Move On
Label: RCA

Released: 8 August 1980 – 40 years ago today
Score: #1 in the UK
Album: 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…

The late great genius revealed, 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.”

DAVID BOWIE Topped UK Singles Chart With ‘ASHES TO ASHES’ 39 Years Ago…

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Knockouts from the past…

24 August 2019

Artist: David Bowie
Song: Ashes To Ashes
Album: Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) – 1980
History: Despite the fact that Major Tom became a junky since ‘Space Oddity‘ (his first
No 1 hit) masterstroke ‘Ashes To Ashes‘ topped the UK Singles Chart 39 years ago today.
The remarkable, accompanying video was the most expensive clip ever made at the time. Bowie revealed, jokingly, later in an interview: “It really is an ode to childhood, if you like,
a popular nursery rhyme. It’s about space men becoming junkies.”

Here’s Major Tom…

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