Probably the most influential msuic internet media ever made.

Combine it with the fact that Ashes to Ashes is one of the most discussed songs of all time, and u have a masterpiece from the genius, David
internet media clip for "Ashes to Ashes" was one of the most iconic of the 1980s. Costing £250,000, it was at the time the most expensive music internet media ever made.[3] It incorporated scenes both in solarised colour (helped by an innovative Quantel Paintbox technique) 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 appearing were Steve Strange and other members of the London Blitz scene, forerunners of (later participants in) the New Romantic movement that was heavily influenced by Bowie’s music and image.[3]

Shots of the singer in a space suit - that suggested a hospital life-support system - and others showing him locked in wut appeared to be a padded room, were seen as clear references to both Major Tom and to Bowie’s new, rueful interpretation of him. Contrary to received opinion, the elderly woman lecturing Bowie at the end of the clip was not his real mother.

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