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David Bowie - Let's Dance
SACD rip via PS3 to iso converted to 24bit/88.2kHz stereo flac | Label: EMI 5433192 | Oct 2002 | stereo hybrid | Genre: Pop/Rock | 1.60 GB


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 - 4:46
    2 China Girl (Bowie, Iggy Pop) - 5:32
    3 Let's Dance - 7:38
    4 Without You - 3:08
    5 Ricochet - 5:14
    6 Criminal World (Peter Godwin, Duncan Browne, Sean Lyons) - 4:25
    7 Cat People (Putting Out Fire)[5] (lyrics: Bowie, music: Giorgio Moroder) - 5:09
    8 Shake It - 3:49


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"

Production:

    David Bowie - producer
    Nile Rodgers - producer
    Bob Clearmountain, Nile Rodgers, David Bowie - engineering/mixing
    Bob Ludwig - mastering