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Ashes to Ashes season 3 episode 1 soundtrack

Episode 1, 8 songs

Alex soon realises she has not returned home after all, and wakes up in 1983. Gene is on the run, and DCI Jim Keats has arrived from Complaints to investigate CID following the shooting. Newly-promoted DI Ray Carling leads an investigation into the kidnapping of a young girl, and sets up a sting operation. Alex decides that she will have to discover the truth about Gene if she is ever to get back to her own time.

  • Sex on Fire — Kings of Leon
    Present, A psychotherapist interviews Alex; In a record shop, she looks at DVD's.
  • Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) — Eurythmics
    Alex is out of her coma, but finds it difficult in the real world. She has flashbacks of Gene and the crew, and finds herself helping Gene clear his name for shooting her
  • Electric Avenue — Eddy Grant
    Gene and Alex enter office, and reasserts himself as the Gov.
  • Promised You a Miracle (Edit) — Simple Minds
    Shaz catches Alex talking to her transistor, and when interrupted, this track is playing.
  • Under Pressure — Queen & David Bowie
    Surveillance of Dotty's parents.
  • Walking On Sunshine — Katrina & The Waves
    At the office, the team celebrates cracking the kidnap case.
  • Every Breath You Take — The Police
    After telling Hunt he is going to take his squad to pieces because of his past, DCI Jim Keats advises Alex to be wary of Gene.
  • Jessica — The Allman Brothers Band
    (0:20) On the TV.