This was one of the standout songs on Bowie’s last-but-one studio album, The Next Day, released without fanfare in 2013 after a decade of retirement.

Unusually, when it was released as a single – the fifth from the album – it was in the form of this remix by James Murphy; a self-declared homage to experimental composer Steve Reich.

Like much of the album, it’s a reflective affair, with clear and obvious references to past glories, from Heroes (as in the album’s cover shot) and Station To Station to Scary Monsters.

You can hear a sample of Ashes To Ashes around the two-minute mark; and, if you’re wondering about the Steve Reich connection, the song begins with cut and looped samples from a new recording of Steve Reich’s 1972 piece Clapping Music.

The single preceded an extended edition of the album with other remixes and bonus tracks, including the B-side, the so-called Venetian Mix of I’d Rather Be High.

Bowie famously wrote, shot and edited the music video himself, assisted by photographer Jimmy King and long-time personal assistant Coco Schwab, with a budget of just $12.99 – the cost of the flash drive he had to buy to save the video on his camera.

The entire video was made in his Manhattan apartment during the weekend prior to its unpromoted release, which almost broke the internet.

The wooden puppets of Pierrot and The Thin White Duke were produced by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop for an unfinished and unreleased music video for an earlier song, The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell.

There is also an extended 10-minute version of the Murphy remix, with a new video directed by Barnaby Roper, and I have to say I love the original album version too: