DAVID BOWIE Let's Dance; 1983 EMI SO-17093; Orig 1st U.S; Lyrics, Credits Inner
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DAVID BOWIE
(Jan. 8, 1947 - Jan. 10, 2016)
LET'S DANCE
Label: EMI America – SO-17093
1ST U.S. Release.
Released on April 14, 1983
Let's Dance is the fifteenth studio album by David Bowie, released in 1983, with co-production by Chic's Nile Rodgers.
The title track of the album became one of Bowie's biggest hit singles, reaching No. 1 in the UK, US and various other countries.
Further singles included "Modern Love" and "China Girl", which both reached No. 2 in the UK.
"China Girl" was a new version of a song which Bowie had co-written with Iggy Pop for the latter's 1977 album The Idiot.
The album also contains a rerecorded version of the song "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" which had been a minor hit for Bowie a year earlier.
Let's Dance is also notable as a stepping stone for the career of the Texas blues guitar virtuoso Stevie Ray Vaughan, who played on it.
Let's Dance has sold at least 7 million copies worldwide, making it Bowie's best-selling album.
The success of the album surprised Bowie, who felt he had to continue to pander to the new pop audience he acquired with the album.
This led to Bowie releasing two further solo albums in 1984 and 1987 that, despite their relative commercial success, did not sell as well as Let's Dance, were poorly received by critics at the time and subsequently dismissed by Bowie himself as his "Phil Collins years".
Bowie would form the hard rock and grunge-predecessor band Tin Machine in 1989 in an effort to rejuvenate himself artistically.
Bowie's ‘70s work established him as the ultimate thinking-person's rock star, but 1983's Let's Dance made him a full-blown pop star.
Partnering with producer Nile Rodgers of Chic, Bowie shows off his Top 40 chops on the Motown-influenced "Modern Love" and the hard-grooving title track (featuring a guitar solo from a fledgling Stevie Ray Vaughan).
The R&B-flecked sheen that Rodgers brings to tracks like the sumptuous and tender "China Girl" makes the whole album sparkle.
sparkle.
Track listing
All songs written by David Bowie, except where noted.
Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Modern Love" 4:46 2. "China Girl" (originally by Iggy Pop from The Idiot, 1977) Bowie, Pop 5:32 3. "Let's Dance" 7:37 4. "Without You" 3:08Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Length 5. "Ricochet" 5:14 6. "Criminal World" Peter Godwin, Duncan Browne, Sean Lyons 4:25 7. "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" Bowie, Giorgio Moroder (lyrics and music, respectively) 5:09 8. "Shake It" 3:49Personnel
Performance
David Bowie – lead vocals, horn arrangements
Carmine Rojas – bass guitar
Omar Hakim, Tony Thompson – drums
Nile Rodgers – guitar, horn arrangements
Stevie Ray Vaughan – lead guitar
Rob Sabino – keyboards
Mac Gollehon – trumpet
Robert Aaron, Lenny Pickett, Stan Harrison – tenor saxophone, flute
Steve Elson – baritone saxophone, flute
Sammy Figueroa – percussion
Frank Simms, George Simms, David Spinner – backing vocals
Bernard Edwards – bass guitar on "Without You"
Technical
David Bowie – producer
Nile Rodgers – producer
Bob Clearmountain, Nile Rodgers, David Bowie – engineering / mixing
Bob Ludwig – mastering
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