It’s a song that will always be synonymous with the video that accompanied it, featuring David Bowie, dressed as a Pierrot clown, standing in front of a bulldozer flanked by four bright young things from London’s New Romantic scene.
When Bowie dropped in unexpectedly at the Blitz club in Covent Garden a few weeks earlier to ask New Romantic kingpin Steve Strange and three others to appear in the video for his new single Ashes To Ashes, it must have felt like God descending, such was the esteem in which Bowie was held as a creative colossus.
