Let's dance. "China Girl" is a song written by Long-time collaborator The album was a big commercial success, though opinions varied on the artistic content. He knows what he's doing in the studio and he doesn't mess around. He comes right in and goes to work. Let's sway. Let's dance. For fear tonight is all. The Canadian version of the 1999 EMI release includes a data track, so that when the CD is loaded on a There was a further reissue in 2003 when EMI released the album as a hybrid stereo In 2018, the album was remastered for the Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. Let's dance. Although the track was his most popular to date, its very success had the incongruous effect of distancing Bowie from his new fans, with Bowie saying he did not know who they were or what they wanted.The shorter, single version of "Let's Dance" has appeared on numerous In the 2001 movie In 2007, Bowie gave The song was used in commercials to promote figure skating for the The track was a regular on the

"The single was one of Bowie's fastest-selling, entering the In late 1982, Bowie, using a 12-string acoustic guitar that had only six strings, played Rodgers a 2-chord pattern, which the latter would later describe as "dark sounding" and a "folk song"; Bowie wanted to call it "Let's Dance" and believed it to be a hit.In 2018, Rodgers recalled "This [demo] recording was the first indication of what we could do together as I took his 'folk song' and arranged it into something that the entire world would soon be dancing to and seemingly has not stopped dancing to for the last 35 years! Let's sway.

... Nile [Rodgers] did his own thing to it, but it wasn't quite what I'd had in mind when I wrote the thing.Bowie later described the title track the same way: the original demo was "totally different" from the way that Nile arranged it. Bowie's calling 'put on your red shoes' recalls Soon, the couple is visiting museums, enjoying candlelit dinners and casually dropping credit cards, drunk on Bowie described this video (and the video for his subsequent single, ""Let's Dance" was described by Ed Power in the The song introduced Bowie to a new, younger audience unaware of his 1970s work. He'd give his opinion on the stuff he liked and the stuff that needed work. "China Girl" was a new version of a song that Bowie ha… David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), better known by his stage name David Bowie (/ ˈ b oʊ i / BOH-ee), was an English singer-songwriter and actor. "Let's Dance" is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, released as the title track of his 1983 album Let's Dance. The Serious Moonlight Tour was launched in May 1983 in support of David Bowie's album … "The music video (which uses the shorter single version) was made in March 1983 by The red shoes mentioned in the song's lyrics appear in several contexts. For fear your grace should fall. This was a singer's album. It was originally released in April 1983, almost three years after his previous album, Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). All tracks are written by In 1995, In 1998, there was a reissue in the UK which was similar to the 1995 re-release but did not include the bonus track. In this Let's Dance guitar lesson video, I will show you how to play all the chords found in this smash hit by David Bowie. Almost everything was cut in one or two takes. There are some really cool chord voicings in this one. I think there was only one thing that needed three takes.Unusually, Bowie played no instruments on the album. "I don't play a damned thing. Under the moonlight, this serious moonlight. It didn't roll the way it should have, the syncopation was wrong. Written by Bowie and produced by Nile Rodgers of the band Chic, it was released as the lead single from the album in March 1983 and went on to become one of his biggest-selling tracks. 2 in the UK. 1 in the UK, US and various other countries, as well as "Modern Love" and "China Girl", which both reached No. Most of the time, David did the vocals and then I played my parts. You could look into my eyes. "A few years later, Bowie discussed his feelings on the track "Ricochet" (which I thought it was a great song, and the beat wasn't quite right. A lot of the time, he just wanted me to cut loose.

One reviewer called it "Bowie at his best".In a retrospective review for Writing for In 1989, the album was ranked number 83 on Although Bowie had charged producer Bowie later said that the success of the album caused him to hit a creative low point in his career which lasted the next few years. It had an ungainly gait; it should have flowed. He was acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his innovative work during the 1970s. The couple wanders solemnly through the outback with some other Aboriginal people, when the young woman finds a pair of mystical red pumps on a desert mountain and instantly learns to dance. Co-produced by Chic's Nile Rodgers, the album contains three of his most successful singles: the title track, "Let's Dance", which reached No.