Hey, there, welcome to another episode of Muzikxpress.
My name is Twan and in this week's episode I'm gonna talk about a track that came out in March 1983.
It's the the title track of the David Bowie artists album "Let's Dance". So it's the single "Let's Dance".
Which got produced by David Bowie together with no one else than Nile Rodgers.
In this week's vlog I'm gonna tell you more
about  "Let's Dance", enjoy!
David Bowie was born as David Robert Jones on the 8th of January, 1947 in Brixton,
South London in the United Kingdom.
Before he became a professional musician, he already studied art, music and design.
At the age of 15, he formed his first band.
In 1964 David released his very first single; “Liza Jane”, which came out under the name
“Davie Jones with the King Bees”.
He later changed his stage name to David Bowie, because he wasn’t happy with the name Davie Jones.
Plus the name of the singer of US based band
"The Monkees", was Davy Jones as well,
so that was another important reason to change his artist name to David Bowie.
The first track he released under the name David Bowie, was “The Laughing Gnome”,
which came out on April 14, 1967.
Many fans argue that it is the worst song 
he has ever recorded.
In 1969 he had his first hit, which was “Space Oddity”.
It was used by the BBC in its coverage of 
the moon landing that year.
Later Bowie released several other albums and hits such as “Rebel Rebel”, “Fame”,
“Ashes To Ashes”, “Heroes” and many others.
It was 1982 when David Bowie met Nile Rodgers at nightclub Studio 54 in New York.
According to the Nile Rodgers book “Le Freak”, it was Bowie who suggested to work together.
He said “I’m wondering what it would be like to
do a record together”.
At that time Nile Rodgers already had hits with
Sister Sledge, Debbie Harry, Diana Ross
and of course with his very own Chic project,
together with Bernard Edwards.
David invited Nile to the Mountain Studios in Montreux in Switzerland. Bowie played Rodgers a song,
which he described as a “folk-song”, on a 12 string acoustic guitar with only six strings.
He told Nile that he wanted to call
the track “Let’s Dance”.
They agreed that Rodgers
 was gonna arrange the music,
so the 2 started to work on some music and in about 17 days they wrote, arranged and produced the entire track.
Stephen Ray Vaughan is  responsible for the great guitar solo at the end of the track .
The complete track was done, just before Christmas 1982, at the Mountain Studios.
David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” came out
on March 14, 1983.
It entered the UK Singles Chart at the number 5 position and it did stay at the top of the charts for 3 weeks.
Not long after that it also topped the
Billboard Hot 100 in the US.
The track furthermore became a hit in Australia, New Zealand and almost everywhere in Central Europe,
North America and Oceania.
“Let’s Dance” is one of the 300 best selling
UK singles of all time.
Thanks to the massive success, David Bowie’s career got a huge boost.
But also Nile Rodgers career got a great boost as well.
Thanks to the success of the track, artists such as INXS, Duran Duran and Madonna
wanted to work with Nile.
And we’ll finish this vlog with some David Bowie trivia;
David Bowie was born on January 8th, so he shared a birthday with Elvis Presley
Guitar player Peter Frampton was
Bowie’s friend at school.
One of David’s  pupils was permanently dilated after a fight at school.
The fight was over a girl and the guy who punched Bowie in the eye, was his friend George Underwood.
Despite the fight, the 2 remained good friends and Underwood did some artwork
for some of Bowie’s earlier albums.
David Bowie’s first number one in the US was his single “Fame” in the year 1975.
The track was co-written by John Lennon and it features the former Beatle on backing vocals as well.
In 1986 David Bowie played an important role in theJim Henson movie “Labyrinth” as Jareth The Goblin King.
In 2006, he appeared in "The Prestige", alongside
Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson.
He did play the role of “Nikola Tesla” in this movie.
During his career David Bowie sold
over 140 million albums in total.
David Bowie passed away on January 10, 2016 in Manhattan, New York City in the USA at the age of 69...
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"Let's Dance" by David Bowie.
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