15 David Bowie Songs That Showcase His True Genius

6. Ashes To Ashes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMThz7eQ6K0 The 80's brought about another change from Bowie, as he made a move away from the intentional darkness of his Berlin period and released Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) in 1980, a return to more conventional rock and more commercially viable music. The album marked the beginning of Bowie's embrace of the mainstream, but he wasn't yet the stadium filling rock superstar he would become later in the decade. Ashes To Ashes was the album's lead single - after arguably inspiring the New Romantic phase that was de rigeur for alternative culture in the '80's, it showed the New Romantics that he could do what they were doing much, much better than they could! The rest of Scary Monsters summed up and consolidated his various 1970's muses and readied Bowie for his next big leap forward...