David Bowie had one of the most fascinating careers in music history, from hippie mime and Major Tom to Ziggy, plastic soul, the thin white duke, the Berlin trilogy, megastardom in the '80s, and elder statesman of cool until his passing in 2016. This week, we feature an album released April 13, 1983: Let's Dance. By then, Bowie done art rock, krautrock, glam rock; his influence massive, but his sales dwindling, he enlisted Nile Rodgers of Chic to produce, added young blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan to his band, and cut an album that would become the commercial apex of his career. Sellout or brilliant? Let's Dance is one of the defining albums of the '80s, and we'll celebrate it this week on Teenage Kicks.

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