Having lost contact with Major Tom at the end of 1969's Space Oddity, there are new rumours afoot at Ground Control by 1980. Word is that a message has been received from Major Tom from deep space "I'm happy... I hope you're happy too", but most suspect that he is now a junkie "strung out in heavens high, hitting an all-time low".
A Space Oddity's parable of the journey of no return into rock stardom at the onset of the Seventies is brought full circle by Ashes to Ashes, which speaks of the isolation and slandered notoriety in the aftermath of living through total excess.
Bowie himself has said that with this song he was "wrapping up the seventies really for myself, and that seemed a good enough epitaph for it".
Its one of my favorite Bowie songs ever.
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