Talk:Let's Dance (David Bowie album)

article states that Bowie's contributions were only vocals, but he's listed as playing saxophone, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.248.167.2 (talk) 17:00, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

his first truly commercial blockbuster

Bowie has many commercial blockbusters in the UK prior to Let's Dance, does this statement refer to the US? --Andy-106 13:01, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Probably. I know a lot of people have said he was "just an underground artist" in '70s America which is ridiculous, the only way you'd get to that conclusion is by rigidly looking at his comparative lack of top five hit singles (though Fame hit no.1 in 1974) and compare it with more regular people. By the same logic, Paula Abdul was a bigger and more recognized singer than Ella Fitzgerald. Strausszek (talk) 10:14, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Table for track listing removed

I have changed the track listing back to a numbered list, because a simple list is uniformly the style track listings are written out at every other album page, also see Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums#Track listing. I feel that the table unnecessarily complicates the syntax and makes it harder to edit. I didn't revert the removal of the {{album-stub}} tag. --Qirex 01:30, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Soul?

Hmm methinks it should be filed under new wave, not so called blue-eyed soul.

Recording location

My copy of the CD states recorded at Mountain Studios, Switzerland which contradicts the current article. I have the vinyl LP also but it doesn't say where it was recorded. Anyone know which is correct? Grievous Angel (talk) 20:44, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

George Tremlett (Bowie: Living on the Brink, one of the best Bowie biographies and with solid research) says Bowie booked studio time at the Record Plant, NYC, at the end of 1982, though he doesn't explicitly say the album was finally recorded there. He hints that the booking was made before Bowie had decided to work with Nile Rodgers. I'm sure it's NYC though, Switzerland sounds like a smoke screen because he was living there since 1976 (no, he was never residing permanently in West Berlin). It doesn't, em, sound like a Montreux recording, does it? (that's where Mountain Studios is) and nearly all the musicians were American.Strausszek (talk) 02:52, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Canadian only data track?

"The Canadian version of the 1999 EMI release includes a data track, so that when the CD is loaded on a Windows PC, the user is presented with a promotion of internet access services and other premium content from the davidbowie.com website. This marks one of the earliest attempts by a mainstream artist to combine internet and normal promotion and distribution methods."

I joined a mail-order subscription to receive the entire set of EMI's 1999 Bowie remasters (via Britannia Music Club) and every cd (including this one) had both an flyer and the autoloading promo screen pluging Bowienet/davidbowie.com). The cd is def the UK/EU EMI edition (UK mentioned under the barcode and printed/made in the EU on both the back cover and disc) but the flyer mentions an North American only phone no. (if you didn't already have internet access and needed an start up cd.) so it looks like Britain and Canada got the same extras.109.224.137.121 (talk) 23:33, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Genre

Is covered in ref 2. Please do not add styles from that ref as Genres. Widefox (talk) 12:35, 12 March 2012 (UTC)