What is the clown in Ashes to Ashes?
What is the clown in Ashes to Ashes? Background. The Clown was a personification of death in Gene Hunt's World based on the pierrot clown from the Ashes to Ashes music video. He would appear to people who faced death including Alex Drake who was haunted by the clown in 1981 and Sharon Granger who had been stabbed. What is David Bowie saying in the background of Ashes to Ashes? Most poignant of all is the song's indelible bridge, in which Bowie laments, "I never done good things / I never done bad things / I never did anything out...