David Bowie Modern Love (Edit) - Modern Love (Live) (1983 Germany) estimated value € 10,00
Label: EMI America – 1C 006 1867627
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single
Recorded at: Recorded date:
Released: 09 Sep 1983
Country: Germany
Description: Media Condition: Mint (M)
"Modern Love" was the third single from the album Let's Dance in 1983.
Bowie claimed the song was inspired by Little Richard, and it maintains the album's theme of a struggle between God and man.
By the time "Modern Love" was issued and edited as a single, Bowie's Serious Moonlight Tour was underway. The track had become a popular encore on the tour, and Jim Yukich's video for the song used footage of Bowie and his band performing the song from concert in Philadelphia on 20 July 1983. A live version, recorded in Montreal on 13 July, was on the B-side.
The single reached No. 2 in the UK, and No. 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100. As well as being a staple of the tour, it featured in Bowie's set at Live Aid in 1985, and in his subsequent Glass Spider and Sound+Vision tours of 1987 and 1990. A re-recording with Tina Turner was also featured on a Pepsi commercial in 1987.
Track listing
Side A. Modern Love (Edited Version) (Bowie) 3:56
Engineer, Mixed By – Bob Clearmountain
Side B. Modern Love [Live]" (Bowie) — 3:43
Mixed By – Jason Corsaro, Nile Rodgers
\Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
ring wear: NO
All three seams looking perfect: YES
Picture sleeve looks near mint: YES
creases or folds: NO
stamps or writing: NO
Producers
Nile Rodgers
David Bowie
Musicians
David Bowie: Vocals
Stevie Ray Vaughan: Guitar on "Modern Love"
Nile Rodgers: Guitar on "Modern Love"
Carmine Rojas: Bass
Tony Thompson: Drums
Robert Sabino: Keyboards and Piano on "Modern Love"
Robert Aaron: Saxophone on "Modern Love"
Stan Harrison, Steve Elson: Saxophone
Sam Figueroa: Percussion
Earl Slick: Guitar on "Modern Love (Live)"
Carlos Alomar: Guitar on "Modern Love (Live)"
Andy Clark: Keyboards on "Modern Love (Live)"
Lenny Pickett: Saxophone on "Modern Love (Live)"
Frank Simms, George Simms: Backing vocals on "Modern Love (Live)"
Other album appearances
The song has appeared on several compilations, almost always in its single edit form:
Changesbowie (1990)
Bowie: The Singles 1969-1993 (1993)
The Singles Collection (1993)
Best of Bowie (2002)
Sound + Vision (2003 and later editions) – live B-side version
The Platinum Collection (2006)
The Best of David Bowie 1980/1987 (2007)
Nothing Has Changed (2014)
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