DAVID BOWIE
COVER STORY
Let’s Dance should never have been the album to turn David Bowie into a global superstar. It’s a disco album made at the height of the fallout from the ‘Disco Sucks’ campaign which, barbaric as it was in hindsight, succeeded in turning the public from dance music to the synthetic delights of New Romanticism instead. That was a movement Bowie had been at the forefront of with 1980’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), so the notion of hiring Chic mainman Nile Rodgers as co-producer seemed retrograde.