Let's Dance (Album)

Let's dance
Studio album by David Bowie
Publication (s)	April 14, 1983
Label (s)	EMI
Format (s)	LP, CD
Genre (s)	Dance-pop , rock , post-disco , new wave , funk
Title (number)	8th
running time	39:41
production	David Bowie, Nile Rodgers
Studio (s)	Power Station, Manhattan , New York City
chronology Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (1980) Let's dance Tonight (1984)
Single releases March 14, 1983 Let's Dance / Cat People (Putting Out Fire) May 31, 1983 China girl September 1983 Modern love November 1983 Without you

Let's Dance is David Bowie 's 15th studio album . It was published by EMI on April 14, 1983 .

background

The album was produced by David Bowie himself. Nile Rodgers of Chic co-produced. The album was made in December 1982 at the Power Station studio in Manhattan , New York City . Bowie himself described the album as "a rediscovery of white-English-ex-art-school-student-meets-black-American-funk, a refocusing of Young Americans ".

The record contains three of David Bowie's most successful singles. The theme song Let's Dance reached # 1 in the UK , US and various other countries. Modern Love and China Girl both reached # 2 in the UK. China Girl was a new version of a song Bowie wrote with Iggy Pop for his 1977 album The Idiot . The album also includes a re-recorded version of the song Cat People (Putting Out Fire) , which had hit number one in New Zealand , Norway and Sweden a year earlier .

reception

Let's Dance was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1984, but lost to Michael Jackson's Thriller . With at least 10.7 million copies sold worldwide, the record is Bowie's best-selling album. It was also a stepping stone to the career of Texan blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan , who played on it.

The album reached number one on the UK album charts, number two in Germany and Austria and number four in the USA. The reviews were mixed overall.

The album was released in 1983 as a limited edition picture disc. It was remastered in 2018 and included in the Bowie box Loving the Alien (1983-1988) .

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1983	Let's dance	DE2 (36 weeks) DE	AT2 (31 weeks) AT	CH17 (7 weeks) CH	UK1 silver (60 weeks)UK	US4th platinum (69 weeks)US	2013 silver award for republication

Track list

All titles are written by David Bowie unless otherwise noted.

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Timothy White: David Bowie Interview . In: Musician magazine . No. 55, May 1983, pp. 52-66, 122.
2. ↑ Scott Cohen: David Bowie Interview . In: Details magazine . September 1991, pp. 86-97.
3. ↑ Johnny Dee: David Bowie: Infomania . Retrieved January 12, 2016.
4. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US