England retained the Ashes when they won the 1912 Triangular Tournament, which also featured South Africa.

" No More Heroes " was covered by Violent Femmes, used for the film Mystery Men and was also featured on the first episode of the BBC series Ashes to Ashes.

The singles " Ashes To Ashes " and " Last Cup of Sorrow " had minimal success ( notably, the music video for " Last Cup of Sorrow ", which featured actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, was inspired by the Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo ).

Also, their 1997 performance of " Ashes to Ashes " on the show featured Robin Guy ( of the band Sack Trick ) on drums instead of their actual drummer.

The original 1989 release of David Bowie's restrospective Sound and Vision CD box set prominently featured a CD-V video of Ashes To Ashes, and standalone promo CD-Vs featured the video, plus three audio tracks: John, I'm Only Dancing, Changes and The Supermen.

In its modern incarnation as the Tate Modern, the building's exterior is featured at the beginning of the premiere episode of Ashes to Ashes.

Ashes was released on SPV / Steamhammer Records in February 2005 and featured a stripped-down sound that de-emphasized the classical and operatic elements of the previous albums.

* It was featured when Chris Skelton danced in Episode 5 of Series 3 on the BBC TV show " Ashes to Ashes.

The Ashes of the Wake album featured many songs critical of the war in Iraq, such as " Hourglass " and the instrumental title track.

The Pop Group's poster for " We Are All Prostitutes " featured prominently in episode 2 of the BBC series Ashes to Ashes.

His 2004 From the Ashes on Apria Records, featured musicians such as Randy Brecker, Joel Rosenblatt and Will Lee.

It was also featured in Channel 4's coverage of the Ashes series in the summer of 2005.

England, who had earlier won the Ashes and the four-nation Perth Challenge, would go on to round off their triumphant tour by winning the tournament, which also featured the West Indies.

The 1977 Ashes took place across five Tests between June and August that year, in all of which Willis featured.

In 1991, TSR decided to revise the Greyhawk storyline with the From the Ashes boxed set, and Pholtus was again one of the featured deities.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

In 2006, Australian film director Peter Clifton proposed production of The Bloody Ashes, a film on the bodyline series.

* British — Graham, Matthew, and Ashley Pharaoh: Ashes to Ashes ( 2008 TV series ; main character, Alex Drake, is haunted by Pierrot like that in David Bowie video Ashes to Ashes ); Mahoney, Brian: Pierrot in Turquoise or The Looking Glass Murders ( 1970 film written and performed by David Bowie and Lindsay Kemp, adapted from their stage-play of the same title and produced by Scottish Television also # Songs, albums, and rock musicals | Songs, albums, and rock musicals below ).

* In the Polish film, Ashes and Diamonds, two characters reminisce about the chestnut trees that once lined a famous boulevard destroyed in the Warsaw Uprising.

Wong Kar-wai made the film during a two month break from the editing of his wuxia film Ashes of Time.

Ashes of Time ( Dōng xié xi dú ) is a 1994 Hong Kong film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai, and loosely based on four characters from Jin Yong's novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes.

Although it received limited box office success, the parallels Ashes of Time draws between modern ideas of dystopia imposed on a wuxia film has led many critics to cite it as one of Wong Kar-wai's most underappreciated works.

In 2008, Wong re-edited and re-released the film under the title Ashes of Time Redux that, despite the digital restoration, presents a shorter cut.

Carlyle played the senior Malachy McCourt ( father of author Frank McCourt ) in the 1999 film adaptation of McCourt's first memoir, Angela's Ashes, the arch villain Renard in the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, and a cannibalistic soldier in the 1999 Ravenous.

Nelson began 1990s with a starring role opposite Max von Sydow in the World War II drama Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes ( 1990 ); the film focuses on the horror of the Hiroshima bombing ; it co-stars Mako Iwamatsu and Pat Morita.

* An Ambition Reduced to Ashes a 1995 Cambodian short film drama directed by Norodom Sihanouk.

Schafer credits the concept of the Amnesia Fortnights to film director Wong Kar-Wai ; during the long, three-year filming of Ashes of Time, Wong had taken some of his actors and film crew to Hong Kong to shoot footage for fun, but ultimately resulting in the films Chungking Express and Fallen Angels, which Schafer noted were some of the director's more famous films.

Though she won the title role of Frank McCourt's mother in the adaptation of his acclaimed memoir, Angela's Ashes, the film underperformed.

The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia since 1882.

A series of " The Ashes " comprises five Test matches, two innings per match, under the regular rules for Test match cricket.

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.

At the end of the Third Test, England were generally considered to have " won back the Ashes " 2 – 1.

Herbert Sutcliffe sweeps Arthur Mailey during the first Ashes Test in Sydney, 1924.

Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as Kerry Packer announced his intention to form World Series Cricket.

Only a single England victory had come in a match in which the Ashes were still at stake, namely the First Test of the 1997 series.

Hopes that the 2005 Ashes series would be closely fought proved well-founded, as the series was more competitive than anyone had predicted and was still undecided as the closing session of the final Test began.

The First Test at Lord's was convincingly won by Australia, but in the remaining four matches the teams were evenly matched and England fought back to win the Second Test by 2 runs, the smallest victory by a runs margin in Ashes history, and the second-closest such victory in all Tests.

A draw in the final Test gave England victory in an Ashes series for the first time in 18 years and their first Ashes victory at home since 1985.

Finally, England won the Fifth Test at The Oval by a margin of 197 runs to regain the Ashes.

Ashes series have generally been played over five Test matches, although there have been four-match series ( 1938 ; 1975 ) and six-match series ( 1970 – 71 ; 1974 – 75 ; 1978 – 79 ; 1981 ; 1985 ; 1989 ; 1993 and 1997 ).

Sophia Gardens in Cardiff held the First Test in the 2009 Ashes series, the first time England had played a home Test in Wales.

In the next series on English soil in 2013, Durham's Chester-le-Street ground will host its first Ashes Test match.

Lara's match-winning performance of 153 not out against Australia in Bridgetown, Barbados in 1999 has been rated by Wisden as the second best batting performance in the history of Test cricket, next only to the 270 runs scored by Sir Donald Bradman in The Ashes Test match of 1937.

However, the first credited Test match was played in 1877 between Australia and England, and the two teams competed regularly for The Ashes in subsequent years.

During the 1981 Ashes, Botham set a record of six sixes in a single Ashes Test Match at Old Trafford.