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Let's Dance (Album) by David Bowie

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David Robert Jones 8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016 Known Professionally As David Bowie Was An English Singer-Songwriter And Actor. A Leading Figure In The Music Industry He Is Regarded As One Of The Most Influential Musicians Of The 20th Century. Bowie Was Acclaimed By Critics And Musicians Particularly For His Innovative Work During The 1970s. His Career Was Marked By Reinvention And Visual Presentation And His Music And Stagecraft Had A Significant Impact On Popular Music. Bowie Developed An Interest In Music From An Early Age. He Studied Art Music And Design Before Embarking On A Professional Career As A Musician In 1963. "Space Oddity" Released In 1969 Was His First Top-Five Entry On The UK Singles Chart. After A Period Of Experimentation He Re-Emerged In 1972 During The Glam Rock Era With His Flamboyant And Androgynous Alter Ego Ziggy Stardust. The Character Was Spearheaded By The Success Of Bowie's Single "Starman" And Album The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars Which Won Him Widespread Popularity. In 1975 Bowie's Style Shifted Towards A Sound He Characterised As "plastic Soul" Initially Alienating Many Of His UK Fans But Garnering Him His First Major US Crossover Success With The Number-One Single "Fame" And The Album Young Americans. In 1976 Bowie Starred In The Cult Film The Man Who Fell To Earth And Released Station To Station. In 1977 He Again Changed Direction With The Electronic-Inflected Album Low The First Of Three Collaborations With Brian Eno That Came To Be Known As The "Berlin Trilogy". "Heroes" 1977 And Lodger 1979 Followed Each Album Reached The UK Top Five And Received Lasting Critical Praise. After Uneven Commercial Success In The Late 1970s Bowie Had Three Number-One Hits The 1980 Single "Ashes To Ashes" Its Album Scary Monsters And Super Creeps And "Under Pressure" A 1981 Collaboration With Queen . He Achieved Massive Commercial Success In The 1980s Starting With Let's Dance 1983 . Between 1988 And 1992 He Fronted The Hard Rock Band Tin Machine Before Resuming His Solo Career In 1993. Throughout The 1990s And 2000s Bowie Continued To Experiment With Musical Styles Including Industrial And Jungle. He Also Continued Acting His Roles Included Major Jack Celliers In Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence 1983 Jareth The Goblin King In Labyrinth 1986 Pontius Pilate In The Last Temptation Of Christ 1988 And Nikola Tesla In The Prestige 2006 Among Other Film And Television Appearances And Cameos. He Stopped Touring After 2004 And His Last Live Performance Was At A Charity Event In 2006. In 2013 Bowie Returned From A Decade-Long Recording Hiatus With The Next Day. He Remained Musically Active Until His Death From Liver Cancer At His Home In New York City. He Died Two Days After Both His 69th Birthday And The Release Of His Final Album Blackstar 2016 . During His Lifetime His Record Sales Estimated At Over 100 Million Records Worldwide Made Him One Of The Best-Selling Musicians Of All Time. In The UK He Was Awarded Ten Platinum Eleven Gold And Eight Silver Album Certifications And Released 11 Number-One Albums. In The US He Received Five Platinum And Nine Gold Certifications. He Was Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame In 1996. Rolling Stone Ranked Him Among The Greatest Artists In History. As Of 2022 Bowie Was The Best-Selling Vinyl Artist Of The 21st Century. Full Wikipedia Article Https //en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/David_Bowie Studio Albums
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Let’s Dance Is An 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 Number 1 In The UK The US And Various Other Countries. Further Singles Included “Modern Love” And “China Girl” Which Both Reached Number 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. The Album Was Also Released As A Limited Edition Picture Disc In 1983. Let’s Dance Has Sold Over 10 And A Half Million Copies Worldwide Making It Bowie’s Best-Selling Album. Songs And Album Development Bowie Having Just Signed With EMI Records For A Reported $17.5m Worked With Nile Rodgers To Release A “commercially Buoyant” New Album That Was Described As “original Party-Funk Cum Big Bass Drum Sound Greater Than The Sum Of Its Influences.” The Album’s Influences Were Described As Louis Jordan The Asbury Jukes Horn Section Bill Doggett Earl Bostic And James Brown. Bowie Spent A Mere Three Days Making Demos For The Album In New York Before Cutting The Album A Rarity For Bowie Who For The Previous Few Albums Usually Showed Up With Little More Than “a Few Ideas.” Despite This The Album “was Recorded Start To Finish Including Mixing In 17 Days” According To Rodgers. Stevie Ray Vaughan Who Met Bowie At The 1982 Montreux Jazz Festival When Discussing The Album Said “to Tell You The Truth I Was Not Very Familiar With David’s Music When He Asked Me To Play On The Sessions. … David And I Talked For Hours And Hours About Our Music About Funky Texas Blues And Its Roots – I Was Amazed At How Interested He Was. At Montreux He Said Something About Being In Touch And Then Tracked Me Down In California Months And Months Later.” Unusually Bowie Played No Instruments On The Album. “I Don’t Play A Damned Thing. This Was A Singer’s Album.” A Few Years Later Bowie Discussed His Feelings On The Track “Ricochet” Which Musician Magazine Called An “incendiary Ballroom Raveup” From This Album “I Thought It Was A Great Song And The Beat Wasn’t Quite Right. It Didn’t Roll The Way It Should Have The Syncopation Was Wrong. It Had An Ungainly Gait It Should Have Flowed. … Nile Did His Own Thing To It But It Wasn’t Quite What I’d Had In Mind When I Wrote The Thing.” The Album Was Generally Positively Reviewed By Critics And Well Received By Fans With At Least One Reviewer Calling It “Bowie At His Best.” The Success Of The Album Surprised Bowie. In 1997 He Said “at The Time Let’s Dance Was Not Mainstream. It Was Virtually A New Kind Of Hybrid Using Blues-Rock Guitar Against A Dance Format. There Wasn’t Anything Else That Really Quite Sounded Like That At The Time. So It Only Seems Commercial In Hindsight Because It Sold So Many . It Was Great In Its Way But It Put Me In A Real Corner In That It Fucked With My Integrity.” In Fact Bowie Would Later State That The Success Of The Album Caused Him To Hit A Creative Low-Point In His Career Which Lasted The Next Few Years. “I Remember Looking Out Over These Waves Of People And Thinking ‘I Wonder How Many Velvet Underground Albums These People Have In Their Record Collections?’ I Suddenly Felt Very Apart From My Audience. And It Was Depressing Because I Didn’t Know What They Wanted.” Track Listing
All Songs Written By David Bowie Except As Noted. Side One A1 “Modern Love” – 4 46
A2 “China Girl” Bowie Iggy Pop – 5 32
A3 “Let’s Dance” – 7 38
A4 “Without You” – 3 08 Side Two
B1 “Ricochet” – 5 14
B2 “Criminal World” Peter Godwin Duncan Browne Sean Lyons – 4 25
B3 “Cat People Putting Out Fire ” Lyrics Bowie Music Giorgio Moroder – 5 09
B4 “Shake It” – 3 49

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