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Ashes to Ashes

It is based on scriptural texts such as "Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return" (Genesis 3:19), and "I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee" (Ezekiel 28:18).


After Thomas

It stars Keeley Hawes (Spooks, Under the Greenwood Tree, Tipping The Velvet, Ashes to Ashes), Ben Miles (Coupling, Prime Suspect, The Forsyte Saga), Andrew Byrne, Sheila Hancock and Duncan Preston.

Chuck Hammer

In March 1980, Hammer recorded guitar-synth tracks for David Bowie on the album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), including multiple textures across "Ashes to Ashes" and "Teenage Wildlife", both of which marked the earliest use of guitar-synth in Bowie's catalogue.

Guitarchitecture

Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) released in September 1980 by RCA Records, which included four layered Guitar Synth tracks on "Ashes to Ashes".

Langley, Cheshire

Langley was mentioned in the first episode of the TV series Ashes to Ashes, in February 2008, when DI Alex Drake, played by Keeley Hawes mentions Langley, Virginia, most famous as home to the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Matthew Graham

Ashes to Ashes, a Life on Mars spin-off which he co-created with Life on Mars writer/co-creator Ashley Pharoah, was first broadcast on BBC One on 8 January 2008, to an audience of 7 million, according to overnight figures.

Montserrat Lombard

Montserrat Lombard (born 1 August 1982) is an English actress best known for playing WPC (later DC) Sharon 'Shaz' Granger in the BBC Drama series Ashes to Ashes.

Mrs. Major Tom

It retells the story of Major Tom, from David Bowie's "Space Oddity," "Ashes to Ashes", and "Hallo Spaceboy," and Peter Schilling's "Major Tom (Coming Home) Major Tom songs, but now from the perspective of the wife left at home.

Oliver Coleman

Coleman is notable for his portrayal of Toby in The Line of Beauty (2006) and of Henry Percy in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), along with cameo appearances in Primeval and Ashes to Ashes.

Zoe Telford

Telford has appeared in several series, including as Eva Braun in Hitler: The Rise of Evil, as Anna Klein in Criminal Justice, as Marianne Swift, a freelance Daily Mail journalist in The Thick of It, as an undercover police officer in Ashes to Ashes, as Sarah, a doctor and Dr. Watson's romantic interest, in Sherlock.


see also

Neon Christ

On Labor Day in 1984, they recorded four more songs, one of which, “Ashes to Ashes”, would appear on P.E.A.C.E./War.

One of their songs "Ashes to Ashes" was included as the third track on P.E.A.C.E./War, a 1984 compilation double album featuring 55 hardcore punk from around the world.

The Mindbenders

A second song by Bayer and Wine, "Ashes to Ashes," took the Mindbenders to No. 14 in the UK Singles Chart in the autumn of 1966, after an earlier effort in 1966, "Can't Live With You (Can't Live Without You)" had struggled to break the UK Top 30.

Vinnie Vincent Invasion

The album featured one of the group's best-known hits, "Ashes to Ashes," and "Love Kills," which appeared on the A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master soundtrack.