If you are going to put on your red shoes and dance the blues – and you absolutely should! – then please, for your own sake, listen to the complete, 7:38 version of the song, not the 4:07, “single” / “official video” version.
If for no other reasons than
- the horns – 0:26 will get you there – trumpet: Mac Gollehon, saxophone: Robert Aaron, saxophone: Stan Harrison, baritone saxophone: Steve Elson
- the complete SRV performance (no, that’s not Mr. Bowie playing at the close of the official video)
- everything else that got left out – Sammy Figueroa’s percussion (and, yes, that’s Omar Hakim on drums!), the vocals, the extra funk, all of it!
And: check out Nile Rogers’ story of the song’s origin!
Let’s Dance! Let’s Sway! Let’s Dance! Let’s Dance! Let’s Dance! Let’s Dance! Let’s Dance!
