The George Lite Zone

Fire up the Audi Quatro, slap a cartridge in your 8-track, slap a couple of nonces for good luck, then hit it.

Alternatively buy Ashes To Ashes on Amazon, groove to the groove in the comfort of your own home and invite bonnie nickers round to dance the horizontal tango to the strains of that old Father Benny Cake classic - Vienna.

The lineup for this tasty bit of 80’s nostalgia includes: -

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

Shame there’s no Motörhead in the lineup, Ace of Spades or Bomber would have been great additions. Still there’s always the possibility for a Season 2 OST if the next series gets the green light. Ace Of Spades in particular was pretty iconic of the early 80’s and is the ultimate background music for a bit of on-screen violence.

Still, it’s nice to see The Stranglers in the mix, especially as my cousin Peter Phipps drummed with them at one point. How he found the time whilst dating Tessa Wyatt I’ll never know, though that was back in the 70’s mind. As an aside, a young Tessa popped up in an episode of UFO before joining Richard O’Sullivan in that really alien TV series Robin’s Nest.

Ashes to Ashes - Thursday 7th February 9.00pm BBC1 Scotland

It’s nearly beer o’clock once again, gentlemen, the follow up to Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes is one week away and counting. So set your Sky+ series link and get ready to go for a spin in an Audi Quattro with the Gene Genie. Excellent.