Let's dance. Put on your red shoes and dance the blues.
David Bowie"Let's Dance" opening line (1983)
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David Bowie
Still frame from the video "Let's Dance", 1983
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“The red shoes are a found symbol, and it seemed à propos for this particular video (Let's Dance). They are the simplicity of the capitalist society – luxury goods, red leather shoes. Also they’re a sort of striving for success – black music is all about ‘Put on your red shoes, baby’. Those two qualities were right for the song and the video.”
David Bowie(From: The Complete David Bowie - Nicholas Pegg, Titan Books, 2011)
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Let's Dance
Source: Caroline Royce
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Three thoughts. I first heard them while sitting behind a console in a studio — probably at some ungodly hour. They sum up my life.
‘Life’s a gas.’ Marc Bolan
‘Life is a pigsty.’ Morrissey
‘We could be heroes.’ David Bowie
Tony Visconti
The Autobiography: Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy
(Harper Collins, 2007)
1980 | DAVID BOWIE
PIERROT WITH THE SILVER SHOE
1973 | KANSAI YAMAMOTO & MASAYOSHI SUKITA
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1978 | David Bowie self-portrait
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