Ashes to Ashes

~ Recording by David Bowie

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleCountry/Date
Official
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps
  • 1980-09-12 GB
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:21David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:21David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:21David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:21David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps
1.5Ashes to Ashes4:30David BowieGolden Years
1.5Ashes to Ashes4:29David BowieGolden Years
1.5Ashes to Ashes4:29David BowieGolden Years
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:26David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps
  • 1984-10 XE
1.12Ashes to Ashes4:26David BowieFame and Fashion (David Bowie’s All Time Greatest Hits)
1.12Ashes to Ashes4:26David BowieFame and Fashion (David Bowie’s All Time Greatest Hits)
1.12Ashes to Ashes4:26David BowieFame and Fashion (David Bowie’s All Time Greatest Hits)
1.12Ashes to Ashes4:21David BowieFame and Fashion (David Bowie’s All Time Greatest Hits)
1.12Ashes to Ashes4:26David BowieFame and Fashion (David Bowie’s All Time Greatest Hits)
  • 1984 -
1.12Ashes to Ashes4:21David BowieFame and Fashion (David Bowie’s All Time Greatest Hits)
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:26David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps
3.15Ashes to Ashes4:24David BowieSound + Vision
  • 1989-09-19 US
3.15Ashes to Ashes4:24David BowieSound + Vision
  • 1989-09-19 US
6.8Ashes to Ashes4:22David BowieSound + Vision (DMM + clear vinyl)
1.13Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieChangesbowie (Ryko remaster, Columbia House edition)
  • 1990-03-20 US
1.13Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieChangesbowie
  • 1990-04-01 GB
1.13Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieChangesbowie
  • 1990-04 XE
1.13Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieChangesbowie (Ryko remaster)
  • 1990-04 US
1.13Ashes to Ashes4:22David BowieChangesbowie
1.13Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieChangesbowie (mastered by DADC Austria, three phonogram copyrights on back cover)
1.13Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieChangesbowie
2.5Ashes to Ashes4:22David BowieChangesbowie
1.13Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieChangesbowie (Ryko remaster)
1.13Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieChangesbowie (BMG club edition)
2.4Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieChangesbowie
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:28David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps (Ryko remaster)
  • 1992-05-22 US
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:28David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps (made in Holland)
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:28David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps (made in UK)
2.6Ashes to Ashes4:24David BowieThe Singles Collection
  • 1993-11-15 GB
2.6Ashes to Ashes4:22David BowieThe Singles Collection
2.6Ashes to Ashes4:24David BowieThe Singles Collection
2.6Ashes to Ashes4:22David BowieThe Singles Collection (made/printed in Holland; jewel case)
1.6Ashes to Ashes4:22David BowieThe Singles Collection 2
1.8Ashes to Ashes4:26David BowieSedated in the Eighties, No. 2
  • 1994-05-17 US
3.15Ashes to Ashes4:24David BowieSound + Vision
1.13Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieSounds of the Eighties: The Rolling Stone Collection 1980–1981
1.13Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieChangesbowie (Au20)
  • 1996-07-02 US
1.13Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieChangesbowie
3.15Ashes to Ashes4:24David BowieSound + Vision
8.13Ashes to Ashes4:23David BowieThe 24K Gold Collection: Golden Years
2.6Ashes to Ashes4:22David BowieThe Singles Collection
2.1Ashes to Ashes4:24David BowieWas het nu 70 of 80? Volume 4
2.6Ashes to Ashes4:23David BowieRage: The Songs Most Chosen by Rage Guest Programmers
1.2Ashes to Ashes4:24David BowieNow That’s What I Call Music! 1980: The Millennium Series
  • 1999-06-21 GB
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps (rights society: bel BIEM)
  • 1999-09-17 DE
  • 1999-09-20 GB
  • 1999-09 XE
2.6Ashes to Ashes4:22David BowieThe Singles Collection
  • 1999-10-22 FR
1.1Ashes to Ashes4:24David BowieI Love 80s
2.3Ashes to Ashes3:35David BowieMusic of the Millennium III
  • 2002 -
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps
2.4Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps
3.9Ashes to Ashes4:24David BowieSound + Vision
1.1Ashes to Ashes4:24David BowieI ❤ 80s
  • 2006-03-20 GB
1.13Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieChangesbowie
  • 2006-08-21 US
1.3Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieSenses Working Overtime
4.2Ashes to Ashes4:22David Bowie101 80s Hits
  • 2007-02-26 GB
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps
  • 2007-03-07 JP
1.2Ashes to Ashes4:23David BowieNow That’s What I Call Music! 1980
  • 2007-06-11 GB
1.5Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieThe Heartbreak Kid
  • 2007-10-02 GB
4.4Ashes to Ashes4:22David Bowie101 Number Ones
  • 2007-11-05 GB
2.14Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieNow That’s a Download: Eighties
  • 2008-01-21 GB
1.10Ashes to Ashes4:22David BowieTop of the Pops: The 80s
  • 2008-02-25 GB
1.2Ashes to Ashes4:23David BowieAshes to Ashes
  • 2008-03-17 GB
2.3Ashes to Ashes4:22David BowieTop Gear: Anthems 2008: Seriously Hot Driving Music
  • 2008-06-02 GB
1.5Ashes to Ashes4:24David BowieThis Is… 1980
  • 2008-08-08 XW
1.5Ashes to Ashes (1999 digital remaster)4:24David BowieThis Is… 1980
  • 2008-08-08 DE
1.5Ashes to Ashes4:22David BowieThe New Romantics
  • 2009-09-28 GB
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps
  • 2009-12-23 JP
1.6Ashes to Ashes4:24David BowieAbsolute 80’s 2
3.3Ashes to Ashes4:24David BowieAbsolute Synth Anthems
  • 2010-09-29 SE
1.5Ashes to Ashes4:24David Bowie80's Lullabies
3.9Ashes to Ashes4:24David BowieSound + Vision (fatbox in cardboard slipcase)
3.9Ashes to Ashes4:24David BowieSound + Vision (fatbox in cardboard slipcase)
  • 2014-11-05 JP
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps
10.4Ashes to Ashes4:26David BowieA New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)
  • 2017-09-29 GB
11.4Ashes to Ashes4:26David BowieA New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)
  • 2017-09-29 XE
  • 2017-09-29 GB
  • 2017-09-29 US
7.4Ashes to Ashes4:26David BowieA New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)
  • 2017-09-29 XW
8.4Ashes to Ashes4:26David BowieA New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)
  • 2017-09-29 -
8.4Ashes to Ashes4:26David BowieA New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)
  • 2017-09-29 US
8.4Ashes to Ashes4:26David BowieA New Career in a New Town (1977–1982) (remastered)
  • 2017-09-29 GB
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:26David BowieScary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (2017 remaster, stereo)
  • 2017-09-29 XW
10.4Ashes to Ashes4:26David BowieA New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)
  • 2017-12-20 JP
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:26David BowieScary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
  • 2017 -
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:26David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps
  • 2018-02-23 XE
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps
  • 2018-02-23 XE
1.16Ashes to Ashes4:23David BowieLeto (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  • 2018-11-30 FR
1.16Ashes to Ashes4:24David BowieLeto: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
  • 2018-12-07 FR
1.13Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieChangesbowie (made in USA by PMDC)
1.13Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieChangesbowie
1.5Ashes to Ashes4:29David BowieGolden Years
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps
2.6Ashes to Ashes4:22David BowieThe Singles Collection
Promotion
1.4Ashes to Ashes4:25David BowieScary Monsters… and Super Creeps (picture disc)
1.8Ashes to Ashes4:24David Bowie8 From Sound and Vision
Bootleg
1.4Ashes to Ashes?:??David BowieScary Monsters Recordings Sessions (40th anniversary deluxe edition)

Relationships

recording engineer:David Bowie (from 1980-02-15 until 1980-06)
Tony Visconti (from 1980-02-15 until 1980-06)
assistant engineer:Larry Alexander (from 1980-02 until 1980-04)
Jeff Hendrickson (from 1980-02 until 1980-04)
producer:David Bowie
Tony Visconti
drums (drum set):Dennis Davis (from 1980-02-15 until 1980-06)
electric bass guitar:George Murray (from 1980-02-15 until 1980-06)
guitar:Carlos Alomar (from 1980-02-15 until 1980-06)
guitar synthesizer [Roland GR-500 guitar synthesizer]:Chuck Hammer (from 1980-02-15 until 1980-06)
Minimoog and analog synthesizer [Yamaha CS-80]:Andy Clark (from 1980-02-15 until 1980-06)
percussion and shakers:Tony Visconti (from 1980-02-15 until 1980-06)
piano [flanged piano]:Roy Bittan (from 1980-02-15 until 1980-06)
background vocals and lead vocals:David Bowie (from 1980-04 until 1980-06)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:RCA Records (in 1980)
Mainman S.A. (in 1992)
Tintoretto Music (in 1992)
recorded at:Power Station Studios in Hell's Kitchen, New York, New York, United States (from 1980-02-15 until 1980-06)
Good Earth Studios in Soho, Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom (from 1980-04 until 1980-06)
stream for free:https://open.spotify.com/track/37CRPk0L5ZpfPeePEPwE0t [info]
recording of:Ashes to Ashes (from 1980-02-15 until 1980-06)

Related works

Ashes to Ashes

lyricist and composer:David Bowie
publisher:EMI Music Publishing
EMI Music Publishing Ltd.
RZO Music Ltd
Screen Gems–EMI Music, Inc.
Tintoretto Music
is the basis for:Body II Body