Ashes to Ashes - Complete BBC Series 1-3 (New Packaging) [DVD]

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Doggett, Peter (2012). The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 978-0-06-202466-4. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. " Best of Bowie – David Bowie". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019 . Retrieved 15 March 2020. Comer, M. Tye (15 May 2000). "Pop Artificielle – LB". CMJ New Music Report. CMJ. 62 (666): 20. Archived from the original on 15 January 2023 . Retrieved 24 October 2020. The series tells the story of Alex Drake ( Keeley Hawes), a police officer in service with the London Metropolitan Police, who is shot in 2008 by a man named Arthur Layton and inexplicably regains consciousness in 1981. [3] a b c d e f g h i j k Heller, Jason (6 October 2017). "How 'Ashes To Ashes' Put The First Act of David Bowie's Career to Rest". NPR. Archived from the original on 14 November 2022 . Retrieved 14 November 2022.

We, frankly, loved it. It was a tough episode to watch at times, and it demanded a level of concentration we’re simply not used to seeing from the usual television dramas we get. The finale of Ashes To Ashes, which finished in 2010, [47] has been described by Dean Andrews as "genius". He explained on GMTV: "Everything is tied up. You get all of the answers from Life on Mars and Ashes To Ashes." [48] Trynka, Paul (2011). David Bowie – Starman: The Definitive Biography. New York City: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-31603-225-4. Which just left Gene Hunt and Jim Keats, with the implication being that they’d return to do battle again. Thus, fittingly, the series closed on Gene Hunt, about to rule the roost over another bunch of CID recruits, with a fresh story about to start that we’ll never get to see. A fitting end, and one that brought the curtain down on one of the most exhausting hours of television drama we can remember.

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Bowie liked the move and incorporated it into the videos for his next single, " Fashion", " Loving the Alien" (1984) and " Dancing in the Street" (1985). [5] Pegg, Nicholas (2016). The Complete David Bowie (Revised and Updateded.). London: Titan Books. ISBN 978-1-78565-365-0. Life after Mars". The Guardian. 7 January 2008. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019 . Retrieved 16 November 2022.

Entertainment | Ashes to Ashes gets third series". BBC News. 8 June 2009. Archived from the original on 9 June 2009 . Retrieved 8 June 2009. Thompson, Dave. " Changestwobowie – David Bowie". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 30 December 2019 . Retrieved 15 April 2021. Eames, Tom (26 June 2020). "David Bowie's 20 greatest ever songs, ranked". Smooth Radio. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021 . Retrieved 15 April 2021. Artists who have covered "Ashes to Ashes" live or in-studio include Tears for Fears for the 1992 Ruby Trax charity album, Uwe Schmidt, Northern Kings, the Shins, the Mike Flowers Pops and John Wesley Harding. [5] Songs that used musical elements or lyrics from "Ashes to Ashes" include Marilyn Manson's " Apple of Sodom" (1997), Landscape's "Einstein a Go-Go" (1981) and Keane's "Better Than This" (2008). [5] Songs that directly sampled "Ashes to Ashes" include Samantha Mumba's UK top five hit " Body II Body" (2000) and James Murphy's remix of Bowie's 2013 single " Love Is Lost". [60] [5] The song's namesake was also used for the 2008 BBC sequel series of their popular time-travelling crime drama Life on Mars, [5] [61] which itself took its name from another Bowie song. [62]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.