Side one:

 

1. Modern Love – 4:46

2. China Girl – 5:32

3. Let's Dance – 7:38

4. Without You – 3:08

 

 

Side two:

 

1. Ricochet – 5:14

2. Criminal World – 4:25

3. Cat People – 5:09

4. Shake It – 3:49

 

 

All songs written by David Bowie, except:

China Girl (Bowie, Iggy Pop), Criminal World (Peter Godwin, Duncan Browne, Sean Lyons) and Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (Lyrics: Bowie; music: Giorgio Moroder).

 

 

 

Released: 14 April 1983

Recorded: December 1982 at Power Station, New York

Length: 39:41

Label: EMI

Producer: David Bowie, Nile Rodgers

 

 

 

 

Personnel:

 

Performance:

• David Bowie – lead vocals, horn arrangements

• Carmine Rojas – bass guitar

• Omar Hakim, Tony Thompson – drums

• Nile Rodgers – guitar, horn arrangements

• Stevie Ray Vaughan – lead guitar

• Rob Sabino – keyboards

• Mac Gollehon – trumpet

• Robert Aaron, Lenny Pickett, Stan Harrison – tenor saxophone, flute

• Steve Elson – baritone saxophone, flute

• Sammy Figueroa – percussion

• Frank Simms, George Simms, David Spinner – backing vocals

• Bernard Edwards – bass guitar on "Without You"

 

Technical:

• David Bowie – producer

• Nile Rodgers – producer

• Bob Clearmountain, Nile Rodgers, David Bowie – engineering / mixing

• Bob Ludwig – mastering

 

 

 

 

 

Singles:

 

• "Let's Dance" b/w "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" - Released: 17 March 1983  (Video)

• "China Girl" b/w "Shake It" - Released: May 1983  (Video)

• "Modern Love" b/w "Modern Love (Live)" - Released: September 1983  (Video)

• "Without You" b/w "Criminal World" - Released: November 1983

 

 

 

 

 

Videos: