DAVID BOWIE – LET’S DANCE LP – Nr MINT/EXC+ A2/B1 UK 1983

David Bowie – Let’s Dance
(EMI Records  1983  AML3029)
Matrix No’s: A2/B1 – UK Pressing

G&L Sleeve in Excellent+ condition
– some wear to edges/corners
Inner Sleeve has a few discolouration marks on the white side but no splits

Vinyl in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from some light pop/crackles, mainly heard in-between tracks)

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over five decades, regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly influencing popular music. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million worldwide, made him one of the world’s best-selling music artists. In the UK, he was awarded nine platinum album certifications, eleven gold and eight silver, releasing eleven number-one albums. In the US, he received five platinum and seven gold certifications. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.

Let’s Dance is the fifteenth studio album by David Bowie, released in 1983, with co-production by Chic’s Nile Rodgers. The title track of the album became one of Bowie’s biggest hit singles, reaching number 1 in the UK, the US and various other countries. Further singles included “Modern Love” and “China Girl”, which both reached number 2 in the UK.

Track listing

All songs written by David Bowie except as noted.

Side one

1. “Modern Love” – 4:46
2. “China Girl” (Bowie, Iggy Pop) – 5:32
3. “Let’s Dance” – 7:38
4. “Without You” – 3:08

Side two

1. “Ricochet” – 5:14
2. “Criminal World” (Peter Godwin, Duncan Browne, Sean Lyons) – 4:25
3. “Cat People (Putting Out Fire)”^[16] (lyrics: Bowie, music: Giorgio Moroder) – 5:09
4. “Shake It” – 3:49

Personnel

Performance

• David Bowie – lead vocals
• 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”

Technical

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