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2007-09-06 06:00:40 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
"Let’s Dance" is the title album track on David Bowie's album Let's Dance. It was also released as the first single from that album in 1983, and went on to become one of his biggest-selling tracks.
Heavily influenced by producer Nile Rodgers’ work with his band Chic, “Let’s Dance" features a thumping bassline, and was arguably Bowie’s most commercial record up to that point. While the lyrics are ostensibly just those of a dance song, there is some discord struck by lines such as “Let’s dance, for fear tonight is all”. The 7:38 album version was heavily edited for single release, though the 12” single retained the full length.
This loneliness and desperation seeps into the music video, made with David Mallet on location in Australia including Sydney Harbour, which features Bowie watching an Aboriginal couple’s struggles against metaphors of Western cultural imperialism impassively while playing with his band.
The single was Bowie’s fastest selling to date, entering the UK singles chart at number five on its first week of release, and deposing Duran Duran’s “Is There Something I Should Know?” the following week, staying at the top of the charts for another fortnight. Soon afterwards, the single would top the Billboard Hot 100, Bowie’s first single to reach number one on both sides of the Atlantic. It narrowly missed topping the Australian charts, peaking at number two. Australian radio station Triple M plays “Lets Dance” in rotation due to the stations change of music style and policy.
“Let’s Dance” would turn Bowie’s public profile from “weird art rocker” to “global megastar” almost overnight. The track was a regular on the Serious Moonlight Tour (the name derived from a lyric in “Let’s Dance”), the 1987 Glass Spider Tour and the 1990 Sound + Vision Tour, and was then reworked for the 2000 tour.
P. Diddy used a sample of this song for his single 'Been Around The World' from his album No Way Out in 1997.
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2007-09-06 06:44:33 · answer #1 · answered by Larry L - Hi Everyone :D 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-04 02:22:20 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
and the Spiders from Mars. I luv that cd
2007-09-06 06:07:07 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Changes.
2007-09-06 06:05:15 · answer #4 · answered by Ms Lety 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Time from Aladdin Sane
2007-09-06 06:26:41 · answer #5 · answered by TINA S 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Heros
2007-09-06 06:04:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Golden years
2007-09-06 06:04:31 · answer #7 · answered by JoJo 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
OK Red, put me on the spot here. I like "China Girl" "Let's Dance" and "Ground Control to Major Tom". I also like his acting.
2007-09-06 08:28:11 · answer #8 · answered by Granny 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Let's Dance!
2007-09-06 06:04:07 · answer #9 · answered by WildOne 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Space Oddity, and I'm Afraid of Americans is 2nd.
2007-09-06 06:04:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋