Bowie Ashes To Ashes - The 40th Anniversary Remixes

Ashes to Ashes written and recorded by Bowie as the lead single Released on 8 August from the 1980 album Scary Monsters(and Super Creeps) and became Bowie's 2nd UK No.1 single.The lyrics revisit Major Tom character from 1969's "Space Oddity" in a darker theme,which he referenced once again in 1995 with "Hallo Spaceboy".The song's melody was sampled in a remix of his 2013 single "Love Is Lost"..Interviewed in 1980,Bowie described the song as "very much a 1980s nursery rhyme. I think 80s nursery rhymes will have a lot to do with the 1880s/1890s nursery rhymes which are all rather horrid and had little boys with their ears being cut off and stuff like that." Years later said that with "Ashes " he was "wrapping up the 70s really" for himself, which "seemed a good enough epitaph for it."Many remixed versions of "released the past 40 Years,You Can Listen Here 20 of the Best Ever Made to Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of it's release! See playilst in comment.