David Bowie was in the mood to try something different as the early '80s unfolded. He'd been listening to R&B and blues records while on vacation in the South Pacific from the likes of James Brown and ...

David Bowie hit a musical milestone 41 years ago today when his iconic pop track “Let’s Dance” hit No. 1 on both the U.K. and U.S. charts, marking the first time the British rocker would achieve the ...

An unreleased demo of David Bowie‘s “Let’s Dance” has been unearthed to celebrate what would have been the rock icon’s 71st birthday Monday. Bowie and Chic’s Nile Rodgers, who produced 1983’s Let’s ...

Chic's Nile Rodgers collaborated with David Bowie on his most commercially successful album--1983's Let's Dance--and has shared a newly mixed version of the initial demo for the album's titular single ...

Today would have been David Bowie’s 71st birthday, and as a way of honoring the rock legend, Parlophone Records, via Vulture, has put out an unreleased demo of the icon’s 1983 single “Let’s Dance.” He ...

In the '80s, most of the baby boomer rock stars who'd come up in past decades were still trying to make versions of the bluesy rock that came naturally to them. They were doing what they could to keep ...

Heading into 1983, David Bowie hadn’t placed an album in the Top 10 since 1976’s Station to Station. It was an immediate hit, thanks in part to MTV, which launched just two years earlier. Bowie was a ...