Ashes to Ashes is a single released on the NME charity album Ruby Trax, David Bowie Songbook and Tears for Fears – Saturnine Martial & Lunatic Album.
“Ashes to Ashes” is a single released in 1980 by David Bowie. It reached #1 in the UK and was the first cut from the Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) album, which was also a #1 hit. As well as its musical character, it is well known for its groundbreaking video, directed by Bowie and David Mallet. The lyrics revisit Bowie’s Major Tom character from “Space Oddity”, which he referenced once again in 1996 with “Hallo Space boy”. Bowie stated that with “Ashes to Ashes” he was, “wrapping up the seventies really for myself, and that seemed a good enough epitaph for it”.
Ashes to Ashes
The Tears for Fears Cover Version is the one played as the background music for the video above.
Great,great cover!