Tonight (David Bowie album)

Tonight
Studio album by David Bowie
Publication (s)	September 29, 1984
Label (s)	EMI
Format (s)	LP, CD
Genre (s)	Pop , soul , rock , dance
Title (number)	9
running time	35:47
production	David Bowie, Derek Bramble, Hugh Padgham
Studio (s)	Le Studio, Morin-Heights , Quebec , Canada
chronology Let's Dance (1983) Tonight Labyrinth (1986)
Single releases September 1984 Blue jean November 1984 Tonight May 1985 Loving the alien

Tonight is David Bowie's 16th studio album . It was released on September 29, 1984.

background

Bowie described the album, which was released immediately after the last tour of his previous album Let's Dance , as an attempt to "stay tuned, so to speak," and retain the new audience he had been gaining lately. Bowie had made little progress with songwriting during the tour. He described the process of recording the album as follows:

“We rushed with that [with the album]. The process was not rushed; we actually took the time to pick it up; Let's Dance was done in three weeks, Tonight lasted five weeks or so, which for me is a very long time. I like to work quickly in the studio. I didn't write much for the album because I can't write on tour and I hadn't put anything together to use it before. It was an attempt to use a crowbar to record an album in the style of pinups [1973]. "

- David Bowie

Publication and reception

The album was a commercial success. It reached number one in the UK in October 1984 ^- Albums charts. It was also certified with a platinum record from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and a gold record from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). However, it received mostly bad reviews. This is how the magazine eclipsed describes the album in its book Rock - The Complete Works of the Greatest Rock Acts in Check: all albums, all songs (part 1) as an “artistic oath of revelation of the first order” with “dreadfully clichéd reggae” and a “ridiculous title track- Duet". Consequently, the magazine gives the work the lowest category, Bad Buy, and it lands in last place in this publication in the overall view of all Bowie albums. Bowie was also dissatisfied with it in later years. The album was re-mastered 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
1984	Tonight	DE8 (11 weeks) DE	AT8 (16 weeks) AT	CH8 (6 weeks) CH	UK1 gold (19 weeks)UK	US11 platinum (24 weeks)US

Track list

1. Loving the Alien - 7:11
2. Don't Look Down - 4:11
3. God Only Knows - (The Beach Boys , from Pet Sounds , 1966) - 3:08
4. Tonight (with Tina Turner ) - 3:46
5. Neighborhood Threat - 3:12
6. Blue Jean - 3:11
7. Tumble and Twirl - 5:00
8. I Keep Forgettin ' ( Chuck Jackson , from Any Day Now , 1962) - 2:34
9. Dancing with the Big Boys (with Iggy Pop ) - 3:34

Individual evidence

1. ^ Charles Shaar Murray: Let's Talk, A Conversation with David Bowie . In: Rolling Stone (English language edition) . No. 433 , October 25, 1984, pp. 14, 18, 74 .
2. ↑ David Fricke: David Bowie Interview . In: Musician . No. 74 , December 1984, pp. 46-56 .
3. ^ Scott Isler: David Bowie Opens Up - A Little . In: Musician . No. 106 , August 1987, pp. 60-73 .
4. ↑ Steven Thomson, Sascha Seiler: David Bowie . In: eclipsed-Redaktion (Hrsg.): Rock - The complete works of the greatest rock acts in check: all albums, all songs . Part 1. Sysyphus Verlag GmbH, Aschaffenburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86852-646-2 , p. 8-21 .
5. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US