Let's Dance (David Bowie album)

Let's Dance (David Bowie album)

Infobox Album | Name = Let's Dance
Type = Album
Artist = David Bowie


Released = start_date|1983|4|14
Recorded = Power Station, New York, start_date|1982|12
Genre = Rock
Pop
Pop rock
Dance
Blue-eyed soul
Length = 39:41
Label = EMI America Records (1983)
Virgin Records (1995)
EMI (1999)
Producer = David Bowie and Nile Rodgers
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:c69ks32ba39g link]
*Robert Christgau (B) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=david+bowie link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/davidbowie/albums/album/168867/rid/5943502/ link]
Last album = "Christiane F."
(1981)
This album = "Let's Dance"
(1983)
Next album = "Ziggy Stardust - The Motion Picture"
(1983)

"Let's Dance" is an album by David Bowie, released in 1983. It is a post-disco album with co-production by Chic's Nile Rodgers. Its title track has become a standard, and the album also featured the singles "Modern Love" and "China Girl", the latter causing something of a stir due to its suggestive promotional video. "China Girl" was actually a new version of a song which Bowie had co-written with Iggy Pop for "The Idiot". "Let's Dance" is also notable as a stepping stone for the career of the late Texan blues guitar virtuoso Stevie Ray Vaughan, who played on the album. It was also available as a limited edition Picture Disc which on one side shows the album front cover photo along with the track listing, while on the other side it says "Serious Moonlight Tour '83" along with a concert photo.

Track listing

All tracks written by David Bowie except as noted.

# "Modern Love" – 4:46
# "China Girl" (Bowie, Iggy Pop) – 5:32
# "Let's Dance" – 7:38
# "Without You" – 3:08
# "Ricochet" – 5:14
# "Criminal World" (Peter Godwin, Duncan Browne, Sean Lyons) – 4:25
# "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" (Bowie, Giorgio Moroder) – 5:09
# "Shake It" – 3:49

Reissues

In 1995 Virgin Records re-released the album on CD with "Under Pressure" as a bonus track. EMI did the second re-release in 1999 (featuring 24-bit digitally remastered sound and no bonus tracks).

There was a further reissue in 2003 when EMI released the album as a hybrid stereo SACD / PCM CD.

Production credits

* Producers:
** David Bowie
** Nile Rodgers

* Musicians:
** Carmine Rojas: bass guitar
** Omar Hakim, Tony Thompson: drums
** Nile Rodgers: guitar
** Stevie Ray Vaughan: lead guitar
** Rob Sabino: keyboards
** Mac Gollehon: trumpets
** Robert Arron, Stan Harrison: tenor, flute
** Steve Elson: baritone, flute
** Sammy Figueroa: percussion
** Frank Simms, Geoge Simms, David Spinner: vocals
** David Bowie, Nile Rodgers: horn arrangements
** Bernard Edwards: bass on "Without You"

Charts

AlbumSingle

Notes

succession box
before = "Faster Than the Speed of Night" by Bonnie Tyler
title = UK Albums Chart number one album
years = April 23 1983May 13 1983
after = "True" by Spandau Ballet
succession box
before = "Go for It" by Various artists
title = AusAustralian Kent Music Report number-one album
years = April 25 1983May 1 1983
after = "Cargo" by Men at Work


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