Ashes to Ashes has been a great piece of television, and not just because of Keeley Hawes. The final episode came to a conclusion with a highly charged and emotional ending played out with the backing of Supertramp's Take the Long Way Home.
I have now transfered the ending to DVD. After seeing it again, it is now my favourite piece of television ever. It starts after Alex's godfather takes away her younger self with the words "Its just you and me now Alex, for ever and ever". The song then plays out in its full 5 minutes and eight seconds over the final scenes, including the entry of a recovered Shaz and Chris' quick fire, pathetic Italian jokes for Luigi. The last bars are played right to the end of the credits. Great timing. The song even reached number 100 in the itunes chart the following week.
I'm not a big fan of The Who, but their song Won't Get Fooled Again at the end of last week's Heartbeat certainly enlivened this particular episode. The 50 second synthesizer and guitar intro was played at full volume before the song played out to final "action". At 8 minutes 32 seconds, it is obviously a firm favourite with sport, tv and films. Wikipedia list them all.
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