“The song they’re playing on the radio...”
As you know, today marks the 40th anniversary of the Let’s Dance single.
Jason Draper has kindly given us the heads up on another superb piece he’s written regarding the release over on thisisdig. Here’s his introduction...
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Having released an album almost every year throughout the 70s, David Bowie fell unusually quiet at the start of the 80s. When a new song, Let’s Dance, emerged in March 1983 as the lead single from the album of the same name, it suggested that things would be business as usual for the creative maverick who could bend a range of musical styles to his will – only this time, in league with co-conspirator Nile Rodgers, Bowie let loose a genre-melding song that was also calibrated for success in the pop realm. 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. Here is the story of how Let’s Dance turned David Bowie into a global pop icon.
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Read the full thing here.
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