Songoftheday 3/23/13 - I catch the paperboy but things don't really change...

David Bowie - "Modern Love"
from the album Let's Dance (1983)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #14 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 9

Today's Song of the Day is by the Thin White Duke himself, David Bowie, who transformed himself into a big pop superstar in 1983 with his Let's Dance album. After the title track reached #1, and the followup "China Girl" made the US pop top-10, Bowie released the concert favorite "Modern Love" as the third single. With Nile Rodgers producing (and fellow Chic-man Tony Thompson on drums) as well as his usual touring band, this was his bounciest, most blindly fun track to date...

"Modern Love" became David's third top-40 hit from the album (the only time he's done that), as well as the third top-10 rock radio hit in the States. In Britian, it raced up to #2, like it did in Canada.

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The song was the high of David's set at Live Aid in 1985..

..and here he is more recently in 2004...

...and here's Matchbox Twenty with a cover of the song...

...and for a different twist, alt-country band Lucero singing "Modern Love"...

Up tomorrow: the "Four Seasons" of the Piano Man.