It’s Bowie…what else needs to be said? And it’s not just the moonlight but the SERIOUS moonlight!

@lextownes1042

2 ай бұрын

When this came out it was like dam, Bowie’gone corporate drag and SRV is here! Accidentally saw SRV &DT when they opened for Moody Blues in ‘84 in Norman,OK. Life changing!!!😎

@poppad331

2 ай бұрын

Serious moonlight was the name of his tour that year. I saw him at Milton Keynes, brilliant

@louise_rose

2 ай бұрын

Yes, his 1983 tour for the album became legendary. It introduced him to a whole new generation of fans worldwide, at least in a live setting, and captured the soul man/show man Bowie in an outstanding way. He looked supremely confident on stage at the time.

@timpindar

2 ай бұрын

And since then, has there ever been any other type of moonlight?? I think not.

One of my favorite song from David Bowie. Dance clubs played this song EVERYWHERE

One of the Anthems of the 80’s, baby. It was a good time in this country. Everybody was happy and loved everyone. Radio version WAY shorter than the Club version. We would stop in our tracks, sit our drinks down and run to the dance floor to shake it. He was way older than his current radio hitters and just he slipped right into the vibe of the time. Chameleon… What a great flashback for me…❤

Did we Dance ! Hell Yes , we danced until we lost weight, sweaty and all worked up. I remember dancing to this at rooftop ,backyard and street parties,

@mikeholmes5308

2 ай бұрын

Can confirm!

For me the best Bowie song Stevie played on is Cat People, the tone he gets is unique but you know it's him immediately. Icons

@kianpa1

2 ай бұрын

I danced my ass off. Great dance tune!

We had our bars, but our clubs were Dance Clubs. Everyone danced in the late 70’s and then again in the late 80’s. We drank, we danced, we made friends, we had damn fine fun. Bowie’s moon is in Aquarius, hence his cool mystique. 😁💖

Even though I'm laid up this song always makes me dance in my mind.

@gillwaugh7212

2 ай бұрын

Yeah me too!!!!

Always cracks me up that people at the time thought Bowie had "sold out" or something by doing a dance track. Like they completely forgot about "Fame", a previous #1 hit that was such a big dance song that he performed it on Soul Train. (And of course the funk/disco single "Golden Years" from his next album made the top 10).

We danced like there was no tomorrow!

One of his more commercial pop songs. This one and Modern Love were both big hits on MTV in the early 1980s.

‘Put on your red shoes and dance the blues.’ Another great lyric of this song! Definitely swayed to this in the the clubs and at roller rink 🛼💗🔥

My god. That bass rattles your spine

Dont care what kind of Bar or Club you were at in 1983-84, this song was eventually pumping out of the sound system...

Another great Bowie song is Under Pressure- a collaboration with Queen. He also did a duet of it with Annie Lennox at Freddy Mercury’s memorial.

Was lucky enough to spend time with Carmine Rojas the bass player on this track, who had lots of wonderful tales from touring and recording with Bowie. Great track

This was Nile Rogers. So of course people danced to it!

@Vader1138

2 ай бұрын

Watched a concert with Nile on TV the other day. Not sure when it was done, but not too old. The man doesn't age. Sounded great as well.

@louise_rose

2 ай бұрын

@@Vader1138 I saw a concert with him streamed from Montreux last year - the very same festival where Bowie famously spotted the unknown Stevie Ray Vaughan at a controversial show in 1982, and immediately realized the huge raw talent of the guy. Yes, Nile is indestructible and still swinging.

The SRV guitar riffs really make this a special number.

Yep we danced, through the 70s and far into the 80s, we danced like there was no tomorrow as we lived under the shadow of the bomb till 91. We had a blast.

Bowie and SRV on the same song! Too much talent to absorb. A fun song to dance to.

@louise_rose

2 ай бұрын

Yes, Stevie was definitely one of the standout features of the album - his angular, dramatic guitar solos gave it a special flavour. Nile Rodgers loved him too, and actually gave the eulogy at Stevie's funeral after his untimely death seven years later. his guitar solos on "China Girl" are just as powerful as here but in a different vein... Stevie was scheduled to be on the tour for the album of course, but was dropped by Bowie's team just a few days before they were due to start. The reasons are still discussed to this day, his heavy drug use and generally flamboyant rock'n'roll lifestyle was probably part of it - Bowie wanted his comeback tour to be a clean affair, without scandals - but SRV and his team are also rumoured to have asked to give him and his band the steady spot as support act on the entire tour which would have sounded like too much, after all it was a David Bowie tour.

@jimmoore8951

2 ай бұрын

The story I heard is Bowie like most other artists didn't want the overhead of paying top notch talent like SRV to travel with him

@steveowens2505

2 ай бұрын

Bowie did song “This is Not America” with Pat Matheny too.

@louise_rose

2 ай бұрын

This is what it sounded like during the rehearsals for the 1983 tour. In Dallas, around April 1983, with SRV still in the band (and Carlos Alomar on rhythm guitar). This is a smoking hot take for sure (Earl Slick took over when Stevie was fired shortly before they were to fly over to Europe for the start of the tour - ironically, Slick had been fired in similar circumstances before the launch of the "Station to Station" tour in early 1976 ): kzread.info/dash/bejne/mK6Eq6itZdjgY5s.html

@StevenQ74

2 ай бұрын

@@louise_rose It's Nile Rodgers who plays rythm guitar on this track

L33 Dance? Did we dance to this in the clubs back in the 80s? Hell yeah!!!! 'Til we were in a lather of sweat, as we looked through a curtain of cigarette smoke laced with poppers!

Yeah, this was a big hit… and it was big in the clubs, too. A great musical collab… different eras & styles!

The serious moonlight!

BOWIE FOREVER. As a long-time fan, I have a ..45years plus. Still discover new songs of his..he is forever interesting. Enjoy ❤

This is a Banger from Bowie for sure. I would ask the DJ at Roller Skate Arena to play this and let me tell you everybody went to the rink. I fell for David a long time ago in the movie Labyrith as a kid and it's been a love afair ever since

I was on a dancefloor at a club when the DJ put this on - I had not heard it yet as the album was just released ( I have been a Bowie Fanatic since 1975) but I recognized the voice - The song Packed the Dancefloor

Everyone danced, even if they had no sense of rhythm. It just didn't matter if it was Bowie.

Oh man! They wore this out in the clubs!

Arpeggio, staccato, pizzicato - the 80's!

You’ll possibly like this, Lee 😂❤ This was the dawn of another new Bowie 😎

I seen Bowie in 1972 in Cleveland, Ohio. Ziggy rocks!

Takes me back to the early "Friday Night Video" days. Love this period of Bowie.

Hope you listen to the full 7 and a half minute album version rather than short edited single version. This will be different again to all the other Bowie songs you've heard so far. Enjoy!

This album was produced by Nile Rodgers from "Chic" who also plays guitar throughout most of this song. Omar Hakim is drumming, Tony Thompson played on some other tracks on this album and also was drummer with "Chic", but Omar Hakim also drummed with "Chic" on some tours and Omar was also the drummer on most of the "Brothers in arms" album by Dire Straits.

We went ape shit, Dancing to this.

Oh Yeah, we danced to this in the clubs...and many of us were very very high. That was then.

That's Omar Hakim on drums, same guy who played with Stevie on the Tightrope live video you reviewed a few weeks ago. I wouldn't be surprised if This recording made that possible, since Omar has such a positive vibe with folks.

This is the tour I saw him on. AWESOME.

And no one mentioned the intro reference to The Beatles "Twist and Shout" harmonies that repeat throughout the song! Such an immediate attention grabber!

@louise_rose

2 ай бұрын

Oh yes! :) The entire album was laced with musical references to the 50s and 60s though the music he had grown up with - nor least in the brass parts.

Yeah we danced to this and had a GREAT TIME!

I hated when disco took over at the clubs, until this song came on...let's dance!!! ❤😂

Yes, your thought on what SRV's guitar added was spot on, and yes, it was like Bowie walked into a blues bar. But, the driver of the piece, other than the bass, was that rhythm guitar.

Fantastic pop music. Nile Rogers David Bowie and first time I heard Stevie Ray. Can't ask for much more.

The Serious Moonlight tour was one of Bowie’s best. If you can get the Montreal bootleg it is killer.

Oh, believe me, we danced to this in the clubs back in the day!!

When Let’s Dance first came out, I missed the Starman and didn’t pay much attention to it. I like it now, though, maybe even more because it’s the fuller version. That would be fun to see, Lee - You and your girl and your kids bopping together 🙂 Very cute

I definitely danced to this song. Bowie one of My favorites

I loved the eighties dance music.

The clubs played the shit out of this, for real!

@L33Reacts

2 ай бұрын

I believe it! They better have. This shit is hot! 🤣😊

The video of this song is sweet to watch.

We danced to this... this album\extended version was played in the clubs that had the good bands (at least here). The single version would be played in the more pop friendly\top 40 clubs.... but both versions packed the dance floors

David Bowie happened to go to Montreux Jazz Festival 1982 in Europe and he heard SRV and Double Trouble killing it on stage. You should watch that whole SRV set, it is fire. Unfortunately some of the people were mad that SRV was playing blues and some idiots booed them. Bowie sought SRV out after the set 13:36 and asked to play on guitar on his new album. When SRV went back to Montreux Festival in 85 the crowd was wild and Stevie gave them quite the show, it was fantastic. Stevie declined to join Bowie permanently and kept to Double Trouble and the rest is history😮

I got into Bowie early 90's when "Black Tie, White Noise" came out and that hit hard. I am pretty sure that this was the first of "old" Bowie song that I really liked. It took me years and years before I warmed up to the albums like "Low", "Heroes", "Lodger" or even "Station to Station". Funny how our musical taste changes.

Two unique things about this is, the rhythm guitar asked for a little echo and the engineer accidently left the gain up. He was going to "fix" it and somebody said hell no leave it. The other thing is Bowie asked Stevie Ray to go on tour with him, and Stevie turned him down.. the rest, as they say, is history.

@lauraallen55

2 ай бұрын

He turned it down because he and Double Trouble were supposed to open for Bowie, and Stevie was supposed to play with Bowie as well, but Bowie's people refused to pay him for doing both. He was performing twice and paid once, so said 'no thanks'. I don't blame him.

"Ricochet" and "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" are my favorite tracks off this album. "Criminal World" is good, too.

This is my FAVORITE Bowie sing!

David Bowie needed a Hit so he knocked on Nile Rogers door and said make me a hit song. This was huge

@louise_rose

2 ай бұрын

Well, Nile was present already when they did demos for the album at David's home in Switzerland, along with Turkish bassist and multi-instrumentalist Erdal Kizilcay. They tried out various ideas and grooves, both more jazzy ones and the kind of disco/funk rhythms that made it to the final recording of the song. All three of them had heard people like Jaco Pastorius and Derek Forbes (of Simple Minds) and were impressed by them, but they decided that wasn't quite the kind of bass sound they wanted for a Bowie album. :)

@steveowens2505

2 ай бұрын

He showed him a photo of Little Richard in a red leather jacket and said “I want my record to sound how this looks”

@terryhall7697

2 ай бұрын

Don’t think Bowie has ever needed a hit

@jesusalvarez2911

2 ай бұрын

well....in that 1982, Bowie had signed the largest record contract in history with EMI and let's say that he wanted to justify that large sum of money he received......also, at the beginning of the 80s, a new musical era opened and after his most experimental era, Bowie wanted a certain more commercial impulse to reach a whole new generation.

@L33Reacts

2 ай бұрын

I see why it was huge! This is the most catchy song I've heard from him yet lol

Everybody danced to Bowie.

Hey, L33, have you done "China Girl" yet, from same album?

@gillwaugh7212

2 ай бұрын

Pleeeease!!!!!

In 1982 Bowie was ALREADY, along with the Rolling Stones, the greatest Rock Icon alive, but this album took his Fame to another level: 3 World Big Hits (Lets Dance, China Girl and Modern Love), packed stadiums on all 5 continents... ......Modern Love and Criminal World are my favorites from this album

@L33Reacts

2 ай бұрын

what a dude. one of the greatest of all time.

@patrickmcevoy5080

2 ай бұрын

Cat People, featuring some of Stevie Ray's best guitar on the album, also made the top 10 on the rock charts.

@jesusalvarez2911

2 ай бұрын

Bowie surpasses the concept of musical icon. In addition to creating musical trends, their different looks and aesthetics have served as the basis for hundreds of fashion collections over the last few decades. He is also a Fashion Icon and much more. Let's say it's a Cultural Icon

Stevie Ray Vaughan was kinda pissed when he saw Bowie pretending to play the guitar solo in the music video.

@lauraallen55

2 ай бұрын

I don't blame him. I also don't blame him for quitting when he and Double Trouble were going to open for David on tour, and he was asked to be paid once but perform twice (with DT and with Bowie).

Yes, this was his Serious Moonlight Tour. And David Bowie's Auckland show was the largest-ever for a single show concert in either Australia or New Zealand and made it into the Guinness Book of Records as the largest paying crowd per capita anywhere in the world. (1989)

Put on your RED shoes and dance the BLUES under the SERIOUS moonlight! Yeah!!!

Bowie wanted SRV to tour with him and he said no thanks, I want to go home and play the blues.

@nancymjohnson

2 ай бұрын

Actually Stevie and Bowie had a huge falling out.

@lauraallen55

2 ай бұрын

Yes, over Bowie - or his people - wanting him to do double work for single pay. @@nancymjohnson @chitownlee

To answer your question: they cut most of Stevie's solo in the radio edit. And I'm like: why would you do that?

@louise_rose

2 ай бұрын

Yes exactly, but at least I think they kept it in the MTV video for the song which is full length - eight minutes. :)

Don't miss his duet's of this song- one with Mick Jagger and the other with Tina Turner.

Last time I saw him was at the New Orleans Superdome and he did that song. I had front row seats and I was soooooo excited!!!! When I got there I was in the front of what seemed like 40 feet high by 40 feet wide speakers and couldn't see a thing ;-( A friend that had a suite sent someone down to get me. The luxury was nice but the band looked like they were 1" tall ;-((((

I'm going to cheat and comment early. please consider doing some Annie Lennox. Her writing partner Dave Stewart (guitarist) did very interesting production touches, and I feel like you would hear them well. So many reactors dont notice as much stuff like that, as well. Plus, since it's a deeper cut I dont see any big channel reactions to it. "This City Never Sleeps." I request it on occasion, and people hit the like for my comment... its the album buyers, probably, who are familiar. But give your audience something new from you, that other channels dont offer?? Annie (in The Eurythmics first) is hugely popular. Gorgeous vocals, BIG vocal range. Rich, deep contralto.

@mattleppard1964

2 ай бұрын

I’d say Eurythmics as a band before solo Annie Lennox. Lee has done some Ultravox, so it’s not a big leap 🎉 Eurythmics’ album Be Yourself Tonight was the first cassette I bought with my own money as a teenager. They’ve done some truly amazing work ❤❤❤

@AjaxCaper

2 ай бұрын

@@mattleppard1964 This City Never Sleeps is on The Eurythmics Sweet Dreams album.

@mattleppard1964

2 ай бұрын

@@AjaxCaper Another classic. Basically they can do no wrong for me. Another fabulous soundtrack from my teens. Dave Stewart also worthy of mention. “Heart of Stone” is sublime ❤️❤️❤️

Hopefully you will have some requests to do Bowie from the genius era 71-80

Love this song.

The video for this song was filmed in outback Australia 🇦🇺 it's great Bowie had a strong connection with Indigenous Australians

Love the reactions and perspective! I have never heard that version - the single did not have crazy horns or extended drums. Fantastic - keep Rockin

I love this music 🤩

The long version about 3 more minutes of SRV. Yeah L33, people danced to it in the clubs.

Another song with Stevie, James Brown's "Living in America (rock and roll version)". Stevie is mixed kinda low, but he shines in the last third ot it.

Great song

6:36 I got to see David Bowie in 2004 and it was hands down one of the best shows I've ever seen , The Polyphonic Spree opened up and that was something different all together 🤘🤘

@levpoplow7354

2 ай бұрын

I was blessed to see the Ziggy Stardust tour in '74 and the Serious Moonlight tour in 1980 (or '81, it's hard to remember Lol), and the Heroes tour in 1985.

@lathedauphinot6820

2 ай бұрын

I saw Serious Moonlight Tour in Austin August 20, 1983. Great show, but no Stevie!

I like new wave Bowie as well as his other eras. China Girl and Ashes to Ashes are some other good 80's ones

The Iggy Pop song - China Girl - was written by Iggy and David, and they both covered it :)

David was a Capricorn, same as me.

Yum. Thx

There is great Bowie singing "Comfortably Numb and Arnold Layne" with David Gilmour and Rick Wright on Remember That Night...2006 Live at the Royal Albert Hall.

Look up "infectious" in the dictionary. This track is the definition

@L33Reacts

2 ай бұрын

That is an apt description of this. Groovy, moody, and infectious.

This was like an atomic bomb when it was released!~

There's a live version of this performed by Bowie & Tina Turner that's a great watch! Hot chemistry between them and you can see they were having a blast performing together.

You wanna hear some real Bowie? Try the albums “The man who sold the World” or “Aladdin Sane”. That’s real Bowie! And it’s real rock n roll

Early 80s Reagan came on the scene, we we're bummed. Women started working out with weights and serious Hindu yoga. New age crystals and channeled spirits from 35k years ago. Don't remember dancing to Bowie though.👍

You wanna hear some real Bowie? Try the album “The man who sold the World” or Aladdin in Sane”. Those are some of David’s best songs and best rock n roll.

Fur a harderctrack Under the God by David's rock babd Tin Machine For this song: According to Chris O'Leary and Benoît Clerc:[6][74] David Bowie - lead vocals Stevie Ray Vaughan - lead guitar Nile Rodgers - rhythm guitar Carmine Rojas - bass guitar Omar Hakim - drums Robert Sabino - Hammond organ, keyboards Mac Gollehon - trumpet Robert Aaron - tenor saxophone Stan Harrison - tenor saxophone Steve Elson - baritone saxophone Sammy Figueroa - woodblocks, congas, tambourine Frank Simms - backing vocals George Simms - backing vocals David Spinner - backing vocals

Good stuff.

Hey brother! You are on the right track to good health. Nutrition is your foundation. It holds everything else up. Now, you need to add exercise. That is your key to having more energy. If you're like me, this meme may apply: "I would do anything to lose weight, except exercise." Ha! Well, don't worry about the weight, it will take care of itself. Instead, exercise to be healthy. I recommend non-impact exercise. Brisk walking instead of running. Calisthenics, swimming, bicycle riding, even Tai-Chi. Hell, just climbing stairs a couple times a day is better than nothing. The point is, there are a lot of different ways to exercise. Choose something that you can enjoy, not something you hate or that feels like a chore. Also, don't expect immediate results. It usually takes six months to a year minimum before you're gonna start to feel it. Make small, gradual changes, not big ones. Small changes are easier to live with. The important thing is to continue and not quit. I hope this helps you.

You must do Bowie version of China Girl, it's different to Iggy's version. Interestingly, they both wrote the song together in 1976 when Iggy was dating a Vietnamese girl

SRV for the algorithm.

Stevie Ray on guitar

This is “Soft” and “commercial” Bowie

The shorter version actually cut the whole middle instrumental section including some of SRV's guitar solo. The song itself is a little deeper than it might seem. The music itself crosses time periods of big band music from the late '40s bebop, cool jazz and modal jazz a la Miles Davis grounded by straight-up Blues inflections by Stevie Ray to exemplify a swath of eras while the lyrics exhibit two dancers trying to find a place within it in romantic ecstasy aka "serious moonlight". Btw, David is a Capricorn like moi. 😄👍 North Hero, VT 05474

I remember the MTV video touched on, I believe aboriginal rights in Australia. And Bowie plays the lead solo in the video. Lol that was before I knew who Stevie Ray Vaughan was.

This was a hot dance song. It was long

Is that Stevie Ray on solo (heavy tone) guitar?

Bowie gets the best players.....like Steely Dan....but he can do different styles. Cat People off this album is HOT! Another SRV / Bowie song.

☮️💙💙💙🔥🔥😎