“Let’s Dance” by David Bowie Hits #1 On The US Singles Chart 25 Years Ago Today
By Marvin Marks on May 17, 2008 in Music Trivia
On May 17, 1983 “Let’s Dance” by David Bowie hit #1 on the US singles chart. It also hit #1 in the UK, Sweden, and The Netherlands.
The song features legendary blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughn on guitar although he is not featured in the video for the song and declined to tour with Bowie in favor of playing with his band Double Trouble.
The song appeared on Bowie’s 1983 album by the same name.
Video:
Live performance:
Hip-Hop fans may be more familiar with this song through the sample used by Puff Daddy for his 1997 single “Been Around The World.”
M. Ward covered the song for his 2006 album Transfiguration of Vincent. You can listen to it below. The visuals were taken from the original David Bowie video.
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What ever you do, don’t watch his 70’s sci-fi movie…
I like some of his works, I use to be big into the original incarnation of Tin Machine in the late 80’s and find love for some of his older tunes. I’m sure there’s enough people out there that love his duet with Queen on “Under Pressure”, I know I do…
Jonathan | May 28, 2008 | Reply