The people behind popular BBC TV show Ashes to Ashes have announced details of its official soundtrack, released later this month.

Unsurprisingly it will feature the David Bowie track from whence the show was spawned, ‘Ashes to Ashes’, as well as a veritable smorgasbord of acts from those heady days in the early Eighties.

Yes, we get Duran Duran’s ‘Girls on Film’, Visage’s ‘Fade To Gray’, Ultravox’s ‘Vienna’, The Ruts’ ‘Staring At The Rude Boys’ and more on the 22 track tribute to the era.

Released through SonyBMG on March 17, the full track-listing is as follows:

1. Introduction – Dialogue: Alex Drake
2. David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes
3. Visage – Fade To Grey
4. The Human League- Love Action
5. Duran Duran – Girls On Film
6. Dexys Midnight Runners – Geno
7. OMD – Souvenir
8. The Stranglers – No More Heroes
9. The Clash – I Fought The Law
10. Heaven 17 – (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thing
11. Interlude – Dialogue: You’re Nicked
12. Edmund Butt – Gene Genie (Gene Hunt’s theme from ‘Ashes To Ashes’)
13. The Passions – In Love With A German Film Star
14. Altered Images – Happy Birthday
15. Joe Jackson – It’s Different For Girls
16. Flying Lizards – Money
17. The Beat – Doors Of Your Heart
18. The Ruts – Staring At The Rude Boys
19. The Teardrop Explodes – Reward
20. Tenpole Tudor – Swords Of A Thousand Men
21. Bryan Ferry – Let’s Stick Together
22. Ultravox – Vienna
23. Edmund Butt - Title Music from ‘Ashes To Ashes’
24. Epilogue: Dialogue: Fandabydozy

(by Scott Colothan)