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The music video for "Let's Dance" was shot in February 1983 in Australia, together with "China Girl", after Bowie officially signed with EMI. Co-directed by Bowie and frequent video collaborator David Mallet, the video starred Terry Roberts and Joelene King, two students from Sydney's Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre.
Mar 14, 2022 · Many of you will recognise ‘Let’s Dance’ from the Craig David number ‘Hot Stuff’, but unlike the dignity and duty of the original, this was a garish production number that held little of the beauty of the Bowie original.
Mar 14, 2023 · More than a call to the dancefloor, Let’s Dance knowingly winked at its title’s meaning in vintage slang: an invitation to fight, with Bowie silhouetted in a boxer’s pose on the single’s artwork, the song saw its creator come out swinging as he took on the mainstream.
Mar 14, 2023 · “But he said to me, ‘No, you’re wrong. Let’s Dance is the one.’ And he was absolutely right.” Released on 14 March 1983, Let’s Dance topped the charts around the world, becoming Bowie’s second-best-selling single, after his breakthrough song, Space Oddity.
Apr 18, 2023 · A new David Bowie was born on a beach near Hastings in the summer of 1980. Bowie was on location filming the video for Ashes To Ashes, the song that would become his second No.1 single, when something happened that, he said, profoundly changed him.
Dec 6, 2020 · This is the title song from David Bowie’s 15 th studio album. It was the first song recorded for the project and was released as its lead single on 17 March 1983. “Let’s Dance” was written by Bowie and produced by Nile Rodgers. Also for the record, it features a guitar solo rendered by Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Oct 20, 2011 · The biggest single of Bowie’s life, “Let’s Dance” hit #1 in the UK, #1 in the US, #1 in Canada, Ireland, Holland, Switzerland, New Zealand, Norway. It made him, at last, the colossal celebrity that he had always intended, had always pretended, to be.
