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Let's Dance

His biggest seller, a dance-pop record made with Nile Rodgers in 17 days.
David Bowie, 1983

Released
14 April 1983
Recorded
December 1982
Studio
Power Station, New York
Label
EMI America
Producer
David Bowie, Nile Rodgers
Length
39:42

Bowie and Rodgers recorded it at the Power Station with the engineer Bob Clearmountain, and finished in 17 days. Stevie Ray Vaughan played lead guitar. The title song, Let's Dance, was its lead single. The album went to number one in the UK and number four in the US, and has sold about 10.7 million copies, the most of any of his albums. Christgau called it pleasantly pointless.

Track listing

  1. Modern Love4:46
  2. China Girl5:32
  3. Let's Dance7:38
  4. Without You3:08
  5. Ricochet5:14
  6. Criminal World4:25
  7. Cat People (Putting Out Fire)5:09
  8. Shake It3:49

More from David Bowie

Space Oddity (1969), Hunky Dory (1971), The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), Aladdin Sane (1973), Diamond Dogs (1974), Young Americans (1975), Station to Station (1976), Low (1977), "Heroes" (1977), Lodger (1979), Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980), Heathen (2002), The Next Day (2013), Blackstar (2016)

Sources

  1. Let's Dance (David Bowie album), Wikipedia