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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Bowie had this wonderful saying,” Nile Rodgers recalls. “He’d say, ‘Nile, darling, it’s all the same, but different.’” It’s a remarkably simple way of summing up a musical career that has become the ...

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 ...

In 1982, David Bowie went on vacation in the South Pacific, a rare respite for the tireless workaholic. “It can get very boring,” he recalled later of taking time off. To cure his boredom, he brought ...

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 ...

Epic. Icon. Outlier. Rebel. Genius. Encompassing all that was David Bowie is a challenge to put into words, but every now and again we are allowed to revel in him through more than just his music. At ...

It’s a flashback to the 1980s. Put on your tie-dye T-shirt and your extra-long leggings, get your endurance up with some home workout tapes and let’s get ready to dance. Yes, the decade, known for ...