David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes [Original Music Video]

do you remember a guy that's been
in such an early song
i heard a rumour from ground control
oh no, don't say it's true
they got a message from the action man
i'm happy hope you're happy too
i've loved all i've needed love
sordid details following

the shrieking of nothing is killing
just pictures of jap girls in synthesis
and i ain't got no money and and i ain't got no hair
but i'm hoping to kick but the planet is glowing aglow aglow
ashes to ashes funk to funky
we know major tom's a junky
strung out on heaven's high
hitting an all time low
time and again i tell myself
i'll stay clean tonight
but the little green wheels are following me
oh no not again
i'm stuck with a valuable friend
i'm happy hope you're happy too
one flash of light
but no smoking pistol
i've never done good things
i've never done bad things
i never did anything out of the blue
want an axe to break the ice
want to come down right now

ashes to ashes funk to funky
we know major tom's a junky
strung out on heaven's high
hitting an all time low

my mama said to get things done
you better not mess with major tom
my mama said to get things done
you better not mess with major tom
my mama said to get things done
you better not mess with major tom

[written and performed by David Bowie]

Video :

The video clip for "Ashes to Ashes" was one of the most iconic of the 1980s and with good reason. Costing £250,000, it was at the time the most expensive music video ever made, although Id always though itd been made on the cheap for about a tennerbefore I did my research for this post. It incorporated scenes both in solarised colour and in stark black-and-white, featuring Bowie in the gaudy Pierrot costume that became the dominant visual representation of his Scary Monsters phase. Also making an appearance were Steve Strange and other members of the London Blitz scene, including Judith Franklin and Darla Jane Gilroy, forerunners of the New Romantic movement that was heavily influenced by Bowie's music and image.

Bowie has described the shot of himself and the Blitz Kids marching towards the camera in front of a bulldozer as symbolising "oncoming violence". Although it appears that two of the Blitz Kids bow at intervals, they were actually trying to pull their gowns away from the bulldozer in an effort to avoid them getting caught.

Scenes of the singer in a space suit - that suggested a hospital life-support system - and others showing him locked in what appeared to be a padded room, made reference to both Major Tom and to Bowie's new, rueful interpretation of him. Contrary to myth and legend, the elderly woman lecturing Bowie at the end of the clip was, sadly, not his real mum.

[John Peel (Blog)]

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[genericusername337]

can someone explain this video to me because i don't get one second of it. thanks.

[The1Rausch]

wikipedia for background infos of db (his life)

most metaphors are selfexplaining afterwards.

you need discographic infos btw...

try it yourself, its not hard ;)

[warlocksarmy07]

my ma got me into this song!! lol i love it

[The1Rausch]

my ma hated db , perhaps that made me love him even more 13 years ago ... today... if i watch this... i cant describe the feelings i have... really. Overwhelming... i did mess with major tom. And mom was right ;)

[The1Rausch]

This is perhaps the most influencing piece of Pop in history of modern music. David Bowie never was easy... he never made sterotypical art. This song, and this video is one of the greatest milestones in musical art.

[Larawyer]

love david bowie =)

[playero1980]

GREAT song!!!!!!!!

[maris2ish]

a true artist

[chamberl]

It's a little more cryptic than "I seen the needle and the damage done" isn't it?

[Pinkspiderable]

@The1Rausch Moms always are love...

We are X!

[kingrob29]

I'm happy hope you're happy too!

[unmedication]

Why is artistic things takes over your silly little life ?

[ejdbk]

i really love this guy

[neptun1992]

I really adore David Bowie. Not only as an artist , more than this I worship this phenonenom like a God. Behind the mask it seems that there are many untold secrets. Really a brilliant artist and entertainer. A crossover between a panther and an fragile alien. Why are todays popartists so boring? I don`t know..