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Subject
| - 1980 singles
- 1980 songs
- David Bowie songs
- Song recordings produced by David Bowie
- Song recordings produced by Tony Visconti
- Songs written by David Bowie
- RCA Records singles
- UK Singles Chart number-one singles
- Sequel songs
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abstract
| - %22Ashes to Ashes%22 is a song by David Bowie, released in 1980. It made No. 1 in the UK and was the first cut from the Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) album, also a No. 1 hit. As well as its musical qualities, it is noted for its innovative video, directed by Bowie and David Mallet. The lyrics revisit Bowie's Major Tom character from 1969's %22Space Oddity%22, which he referenced once again in 1995 with %22Hallo Spaceboy%22. The song's original title was %22People Are Turning to Gold.%22Interviewed in 1980, Bowie described the song as %22a nursery rhyme. It's very much a 1980s nursery rhyme. I think 1980s 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...%22. Years later, Bowie said that with %22Ashes to Ashes%22 he was %22wrapping up the seventies really%22 for himself, which %22seemed a good enough epitaph for it%22.
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| - David Bowie
- Tony Visconti
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| - The Power Station, New York, February 1980; Good Earth Studios, London, April 1980
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