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Ashes to Ashes season 3 episode 3 soundtrack

Episode 3, 4 songs

Gene and the rest of CID are feeling the pressure to stop a series of politically motivated arson attacks in the lead up to the 1983 General Election, after a military compound and a polling station are set alight. DCI Jim Keats announces his plans to monitor the way Hunt and his team work while trying to turn each member of of the team against Gene. Elsewhere, Alex continues to mount her investigation into what really happened to Sam Tyler in 1980 and is struggling to work out why she is being haunted by the young police officer.

  • Anarchy In the U.K. — Sex Pistols
    Police station after arson on polling station. Station full of anarchists rounded up as suspects.
  • Two Tribes — Frankie Goes to Hollywood
    Watching 1983 election coverage on TV at Luigi's with the two firemen, then in office
  • Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu) — Dean Martin
    Near end. In Luigi's Gene buys Ray a large cigar and compliments him on a job well done
  • Shipbuilding — Robert Wyatt
    Just before end credits,