{"id":29558,"date":"2024-05-21T15:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T15:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-may-21-1983-david-bowie-hit-1-with-lets-dance\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T15:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T15:03:33","slug":"on-this-day-may-21-1983-david-bowie-hit-1-with-lets-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-may-21-1983-david-bowie-hit-1-with-lets-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, May 21, 1983: David Bowie hit #1 with \u201cLet\u2019s Dance\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-21\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, May 21, 1983 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>David Bowie<\/strong> hit #1 with \u201cLet\u2019s Dance,\u201d the title track from his 15th studio album.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The song was co-produced by <strong>Chic<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Nile Rodgers\u00a0<\/strong>and featured a then-unknown <strong>Stevie Ray Vaughan<\/strong> on guitar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cLet\u2019s Dance\u201d became the first single of Bowie\u2019s career to hit #1 in both the U.S. and the U.K., spending three weeks on top of the U.K. chart. It also went to #1 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Hot Dance\/Disco charts and\u00a0hit #1 in Canada, Ireland, Sweden and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The track was the biggest single of Bowie\u2019s career and his final #1 single in the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, May 21, 1983 &#8230; David Bowie hit #1 with \u201cLet\u2019s Dance,\u201d the title track from his 15th studio album. The song was co-produced by Chic\u2019s Nile Rodgers\u00a0and featured a then-unknown Stevie Ray Vaughan on guitar. \u201cLet\u2019s Dance\u201d became the first single of Bowie\u2019s career to hit #1<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-may-21-1983-david-bowie-hit-1-with-lets-dance\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}