David Bowie, the English rock icon, whose work spans more than four decades, released "Let's Dance" as the first single from that album in 1983, and went on to become one of his biggest-selling tracks. Heavily influenced by producer Nile Rodgers’ work with his band CHIC, “Let’s Dance" features a thumping bassline, combined with Stevie Ray Vaughan’s guitar playing, “Let’s Dance” was arguably Bowie’s most commercial record up to that point. While the lyrics are ostensibly just those of a dance song, there is some discord struck by lines such as “Let’s dance, for fear tonight is all”. The 7:38 album version was heavily edited for single release, though the 12” single retained the full length. This loneliness and desperation seeps into the music video, made with David Mallet on location in Australia, which features Bowie watching an Aboriginal couple’s struggles against metaphors of Western cultural imperialism impassively while playing with his band. The single was Bowie’s fastest selling to date, entering the UK singles chart at number five on its first week of release, and deposing Duran Duran’s “Is There Something I Should Know?” the following week, staying at the top of the charts for another fortnight. Soon afterwards, the single would top the Billboard Hot 100, Bowie’s first single to reach number one on both sides of the Atlantic. It narrowly missed topping the Australian charts, peaking at number two. “Let’s Dance” would turn Bowie’s public profile from “weird art rocker” to “global megastar” almost overnight. The track was a regular on the Serious Moonlight Tour (the name derived from a lyric in “Let’s Dance”), the 1987 Glass Spider Tour and the 1990 Sound + Vision Tour, and was then reworked for the 2000 tour.