Let’s Dance

album by Bowie

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Let's Dance is a 1983 album by David Bowie, produced by Nile Rodgers. It marked a significant commercial success for Bowie, producing three American top 20 hits and representing a departure from his earlier avant-garde work towards a more accessible sound. The album is noted for its blend of rock and disco influences. Bowie was a highly influential figure in rock music, known for his constant reinvention of his musical style and persona throughout his career. He recorded 26 studio albums over nearly five decades.1

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David Bowie
The 1980s and ’90s
…equally impressive commercial calculation of Let’s Dance (1983), which produced three American top 20 hits, Bowie’s work grew steadily more trivial. In tandem with an acting career that, since his arresting debut in Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), largely failed to jell, his vague later albums…
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…equally impressive commercial calculation of Let’s Dance (1983), which produced three American top 20 hits, Bowie’s work grew steadily more trivial. In tandem with an acting career that, since his arresting debut in Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), largely failed to jell, his vague later albums…
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