David Bowie - Let's Dance (1983) [2003 SACD]
BAND/ARTIST: David Bowie
- Title: Let's Dance
- Year Of Release: 1983 [2003]
- Label: EMI [07243 543319 2 3]
- Genre: New Wave, Pop Rock, Synth-pop
- Quality: DSD64 image (*.iso) | DSD64 (*tracks) | FLAC (24bit/88,2 kHz)
- Total Time: 00:39:47
- Total Size: 1,2 GB / 1,0 GB / 862 mb (+3%rec.)
- WebSite: Album Preview
Let’s Dance is an album by David Bowie, released in 1983. It is a post-disco album with co-production by Chic’s Nile Rodgers. The title track of the album became one of Bowie’s biggest hit singles, reaching #1 in the UK, the US & various other countries. Further singles included “Modern Love” & “China Girl”, which both reached #2 in the UK. “China Girl” was actually a new version of a song which Bowie had co-written with Iggy Pop for the latter’s 1977 album The Idiot. The album also contains a rerecorded version of the song “Cat People (Putting Out Fire)” which had been a minor hit for Bowie a year earlier. Let’s Dance is also notable as a stepping stone for the career of the late Texas blues guitar virtuoso Stevie Ray Vaughan, who played on the album. The album was also released as a limited edition picture disc in 1983.
In 1995 Virgin Records re-released the album on CD with “Under Pressure” as a bonus track. EMI did the 2nd re-release in 1999 (featuring 24bit digitally remastered sound & no bonus tracks).
In 1998 there was a reissue in the UK which was similar to the 1995 re-release but did not include the bonus track.
The Canadian version of the 1999 EMI release includes a data track, so that when the CD is loaded on a Windows PC, the user is presented with a promotion of internet access services & other premium content from the davidbowie.com website. This marks one of the earliest attempts by a mainstream artist to combine internet & normal promotion & distribution methods.
There was a further reissue in 2003 when EMI released the album as a hybrid stereo SACD/PCM CD.
Tracks:
1. Modern Love - 4:48
2. China Girl - 5:33
3. Let’s Dance - 7:38
4. Without You - 3:10
5. Ricochet - 5:14
6. Criminal World - 4:25
7. Cat People (Putting Out Fire) - 5:10
8. Shake It - 3:51
Personnel:
David Bowie – lead vocals, saxophone, guitar, keyboards
Carmine Rojas – bass guitar
Omar Hakim, Tony Thompson – drums
Nile Rodgers – guitar
Stevie Ray Vaughan – lead guitar
Rob Sabino – keyboards
Mac Gollehon – trumpet
Robert Aaron, Lenny Pickett, Stan Harrison – tenor saxophone, flute
Steve Elson – baritone saxophone, flute
Sammy Figueroa – percussion
Frank Simms, George Simms, David Spinner – backing vocals
David Bowie, Nile Rodgers – horn arrangements
Bernard Edwards – bass guitar on "Without You"
In 1995 Virgin Records re-released the album on CD with “Under Pressure” as a bonus track. EMI did the 2nd re-release in 1999 (featuring 24bit digitally remastered sound & no bonus tracks).
In 1998 there was a reissue in the UK which was similar to the 1995 re-release but did not include the bonus track.
The Canadian version of the 1999 EMI release includes a data track, so that when the CD is loaded on a Windows PC, the user is presented with a promotion of internet access services & other premium content from the davidbowie.com website. This marks one of the earliest attempts by a mainstream artist to combine internet & normal promotion & distribution methods.
There was a further reissue in 2003 when EMI released the album as a hybrid stereo SACD/PCM CD.
Tracks:
1. Modern Love - 4:48
2. China Girl - 5:33
3. Let’s Dance - 7:38
4. Without You - 3:10
5. Ricochet - 5:14
6. Criminal World - 4:25
7. Cat People (Putting Out Fire) - 5:10
8. Shake It - 3:51
Personnel:
David Bowie – lead vocals, saxophone, guitar, keyboards
Carmine Rojas – bass guitar
Omar Hakim, Tony Thompson – drums
Nile Rodgers – guitar
Stevie Ray Vaughan – lead guitar
Rob Sabino – keyboards
Mac Gollehon – trumpet
Robert Aaron, Lenny Pickett, Stan Harrison – tenor saxophone, flute
Steve Elson – baritone saxophone, flute
Sammy Figueroa – percussion
Frank Simms, George Simms, David Spinner – backing vocals
David Bowie, Nile Rodgers – horn arrangements
Bernard Edwards – bass guitar on "Without You"
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