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"Ashes to Ashes" is a song written and recorded by English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was the lead single from the 1980 album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) and became Bowie's second UK No. 1 single. It is also known for its innovative video, directed by Bowie and David Mallet, which at the time was the most expensive music video ever made.
The lyrics revisit Bowie's Major Tom character from 1969's "Space Oddity" in a darker theme, which he referenced once again in 1995 with "Hallo Spaceboy". The song's melody was sampled in a remix of his 2013 single "Love Is Lost". The song's original title was "People Are Turning to Gold".
Interviewed in 1980, Bowie described the song as "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." Years later, Bowie said that with "Ashes to Ashes" he was "wrapping up the seventies really" for himself, which "seemed a good enough epitaph for it."
AllMusic critic Dave Thompson described the track and its accompanying music video as "a very deliberate acknowledgment of the then-burgeoning New Romantic scene." It was ranked as the 5th best single of 1980 by NME magazine.
Source: Wikipedia
"Ashes to Ashes" is a song written and recorded by English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was the lead single from the 1980 album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) and became Bowie's second UK No. 1 single. It is also known for its innovative video, directed by Bowie and David Mallet, which at the time was the most expensive music video ever made.
The lyrics revisit Bowie's Major Tom character from 1969's "Space Oddity" in a darker theme, which he referenced once again in 1995 with "Hallo Spaceboy". The song's melody was sampled in a remix of his 2013 single "Love Is Lost". The song's original title was "People Are Turning to Gold".
Interviewed in 1980, Bowie described the song as "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." Years later, Bowie said that with "Ashes to Ashes" he was "wrapping up the seventies really" for himself, which "seemed a good enough epitaph for it."
AllMusic critic Dave Thompson described the track and its accompanying music video as "a very deliberate acknowledgment of the then-burgeoning New Romantic scene." It was ranked as the 5th best single of 1980 by NME magazine.
Source: Wikipedia
![David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes (Glastonbury, 2000) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xU5_oTl1wPE/mqdefault.jpg "David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes (Glastonbury, 2000) [Restored]
Ashes to Ashes is a song written and recorded by English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was the lead single from the 1980 album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) and became Bowies second UK No. 1 single. It is also known for its innovative video, directed by Bowie and David Mallet, which at the time was the most expensive music video ever made.
The lyrics revisit Bowies Major Tom character from 1969s Space Oddity in a darker theme, which he referenced once again in 1995 with Hallo Spaceboy. The songs melody was sampled in a remix of his 2013 single Love Is Lost. The songs original title was People Are Turning to Gold.
Interviewed in 1980, Bowie described the song as 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. Years later, Bowie said that with Ashes to Ashes he was wrapping up the seventies really for himself, which seemed a good enough epitaph for it.
AllMusic critic Dave Thompson described the track and its accompanying music video as a very deliberate acknowledgment of the then-burgeoning New Romantic scene. It was ranked as the 5th best single of 1980 by NME magazine.
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![10cc - Im Not In Love (1975) [Digitally Enhanced]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xZ3ydkSlM_k/mqdefault.jpg "10cc - Im Not In Love (1975) [Digitally Enhanced]
Im Not in Love is a song by English group 10cc, written by band members Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman. It is known for its innovative and distinctive backing track, composed mostly of the bands multitracked vocals. Released in the UK in May 1975 as the second single from the bands third album, The Original Soundtrack, it became the second of the groups three number-one singles in the UK between 1973 and 1978, topping the UK singles chart for two weeks. The song was also the bands breakthrough hit worldwide, reaching number one in Ireland and Canada and number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, as well as reaching the top 10 in Australia, New Zealand and several European countries.
Written mostly by Stewart as a riposte to his wifes declaration that he did not tell her often enough that he loved her, Im Not in Love was originally conceived as a bossa nova song played on guitars, but the other two members of the band, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, disliked the track and it was abandoned. However, after hearing members of their staff continue to sing the melody around their studio, Stewart persuaded the group to give the song another chance, to which Godley replied that for the song to work it needed to be radically changed, and suggested that the band should try to create a new version using just voices.
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![The Four Seasons - Big Girls Dont Cry (1962) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xj8sDKwcMME/mqdefault.jpg "The Four Seasons - Big Girls Dont Cry (1962) [Restored]
Big Girls Dont Cry is a song written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio and originally recorded by The Four Seasons. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 17, 1962, and, like its predecessor Sherry, spent five weeks in the top position. The song also made it to number one, for three weeks, on Billboards Rhythm and Blues survey.")
![Chet Baker - Time After Time [Digitally Enhanced]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xuvv0X-YyPU/mqdefault.jpg "Chet Baker - Time After Time [Digitally Enhanced]
Chet Baker - Time After Time
Bass – Luigi Trussardi
Drums – Franco Manzecchi
Flute – Jacques Pelzer
Piano – René Urtreger
Recorded in Brussels (Belgium) on May 2, 1964 by R.T.B.")
![Peter Tosh and Mick Jagger - (You Gotta Walk And) Dont Look Back [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yRgehEkwvts/mqdefault.jpg "Peter Tosh and Mick Jagger - (You Gotta Walk And) Dont Look Back [Restored]
Peter Tosh scored a minor hit in 1978 with a reggae version of the song, sharing vocals with Mick Jagger. That version bore the modified title (You Gotta Walk And) Dont Look Back.
The track appears also on Peter Tosh 1978 album Bush Doctor with credited Mick Jagger vocals. The pair played the song together that year on an episode of Saturday Night Live and a couple of times during Toshs opening performance on the Rolling Stones US Tour 1978. The Rolling Stones rehearsed it for that tour and played it once in Chicago 2002.")
![Mud - Tiger Feet (1974) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yzp9RRf4dU8/mqdefault.jpg "Mud - Tiger Feet (1974) [Restored]
Tiger Feet is a popular song by the English glam rock band Mud, released in January 1974. Written and produced by the songwriting team of Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, it was the bands first number No. 1 single in the UK Singles Chart
The video title shows 1973 but instead it is Jan 4, 1974.")
![Grace Kelly & Bing Crosby - True Love (High Society, 1956) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zfqFtsINILo/mqdefault.jpg "Grace Kelly & Bing Crosby - True Love (High Society, 1956) [Restored]
True Love is a popular song written by Cole Porter and was published in 1956. The song was introduced by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly in the musical film High Society. True Love was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Kellys contribution on the record is relatively minor, duetting with Crosby on only the final chorus. Nonetheless, the single is co-credited to her.")
![Virginia Mayo/Jeri Sullavan - Daddy-O (A Song Is Born, 1948) [Digitally Enhanced]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zkVzocZ3bXU/mqdefault.jpg "Virginia Mayo/Jeri Sullavan - Daddy-O (A Song Is Born, 1948) [Digitally Enhanced]
The song is sung by Jeri Sullavan (dubbing for Virginia mayo)
with the Page Cavanaugh Trio.
The song is written by Gene de Paul (music) and Don Raye (lyrics)
A Song Is Born (also known as Thats Life) is a 1948 Technicolor musical film remake of the 1941 movie Ball of Fire with Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo.")
![Kayak - Ruthless Queen (1978) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zv3LchfIIaA/mqdefault.jpg "Kayak - Ruthless Queen (1978) [Restored]
Kayak is a Dutch progressive rock band formed in 1972 in the city Hilversum by Ton Scherpenzeel and Pim Koopman. In 1973, their debut album See See The Sun was released, including three hit singles. Their main popularity was in the Netherlands, with their top hit (Ruthless Queen) reaching No. 6 on the Dutch charts in March 1979")
