Ashes to Ashes / Move On

by David Bowie

Ashes to Ashes / Move On cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: 8 August 1980
  • Label: RCA
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 6:51
  • Community rating: 4.46/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Revisiting the tragic Major Tom character from 'Space Oddity', Bowie masterfully deconstructs his own mythology by revealing the astronaut as a strung-out junkie. The track features Chuck Hammer's pioneering use of the Roland GR-500 guitar synthesizer alongside an intricate, funk-inspired slap-bass line. The highly expensive, surreal music video cemented the visual aesthetics of the emerging New Romantic movement.

Genres

Descriptors: drugs, conceptual, dystopian, theatrical, expansive

Tracklist

  1. Ashes To Ashes (3:35)
  2. Move On (3:16)

Credits

  • Natasha Korniloff - other [uncredited, clown costume]
  • David Bowie - primary artist, producer, written-by
  • Brian Duffy - photography by [uncredited]
  • Tony Visconti - producer

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