"LET'S DANCE" ● David Bowie

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"LET'S DANCE" ● David Bowie

The Song● Let’s Dance

Writer● David Bowie

Producers● David Bowie and Nile Rodgers

Recorded● Fall/winter 1982-1983 in New York City

Released● April 1983

Players●
:: David Bowie -- vocals
:: Stevie Ray Vaughan -- guitar
:: Nile Rodgers -- guitar
:: Carmine Rojas -- bass
:: Rob Sabino -- keyboards
:: Tony Thompson -- drums
:: Sammy Figueroa -- percussion
:: Robert Arron, Steve Elson -- saxophones

Album● Let's Dance (EMI America, 1984)

Also On●
:: Changesbowie (Rykodisc, 1990)
:: The Singles 1969 To 1993 (Rykodisc, 1993)
:: Best Of Bowie (Virgin, 2002) and other compilations

Let’s Dance ● David Bowie

Let's Dance is the 15th studio album by David Bowie, released on April 14, 1983, through EMI America Records. Let's Dance was released to massive commercial success, reaching number one in numerous countries, and turned David Bowie into a major superstar. Let’s Dance remains Bowie's best-selling album.

"Let's Dance" was David Bowie's second Number One single on the Billboard Hot 100, following 1975's "Fame." "Let's Dance" knocked Michael Jackson's "Beat It" off the top spot after a three-week run.

"Let's Dance" was the first Bowie single to top the charts in both the U.S. and the U.K. Working with guitarist-producer Nile Rodgers from the group Chic, the ever-changing Bowie surprised his fans by making Let's Dance a commercial and accessible album that spawned three hit singles.

Bowie called the Let's Dance album "probably the simplest album I've ever done. In fact, it was quite complex to put together, but I hope the overall impression is that it's the most positive, emotional, uplifting album I've made in a long time."

Let's Dance also introduced audiences to a previously little-known guitarist from Texas named Stevie Ray Vaughan. Though Vaughan was supposed to be in Bowie's band for the Serious Moonlight tour that followed Let's Dance, record label politics intervened, and instead he went on tour with his own group, Double Trouble, to support his 1983 debut album Texas Flood.

The Let's Dance album peaked at Number Four on the Billboard 200 and at Number One in the U.K. Let's Dance was Bowie's first platinum studio album in the U.S. His Changesonebowie compilation from 1976 was also a million-seller.

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