Songoftheday 8/19/15 - When I believed in nothing I called her name, trapped in a high-dollar joint in some place I called her name...

"Never Let Me Down" - David Bowie
from the album Never Let Me Down (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #27 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 5

Today's SOTD comes from David Bowie, whose 1987 album Never Let Me Down started off with the almost-top-20 pop hit "Day-In, Day-Out". He released the title track from the album as its follow-up, written with guitarist Carlos Alomar...

"Never Let Me Down" would become Bowie's most recent top-40 pop hit in America in September of 1987. The record also crossed over to both the Mainstream Rock (#15) and Dance Club Play (#17) charts in Billboard magazine. Internationally, the single made the top-40 in his native UK at #34, as well as Ireland and Canada.

After the tour behind this album Bowie formed the "supergroup" Tin Machine, who put out two successful albums with a pair of top-10 rock hits including the #3 "One Shot" in 1991. Two years later, going back to his solo work with Black Tie/White Noise, he returned to the top-10 in the UK with "Jump They Say" (which also climbed into the top-5 on the American modern rock list). In 1997, his most recent Hot 100 appearance came with the Nine Inch Nails-produced "I'm Afraid Of Americans" (#66, #29 rock). Since then, he's continued his presence on the singles chart in Britain, with "Where Are We Now" hitting #6 in 2013. But at 68, he's still putting out the most fulfilling music of his career.

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David appeared on the first Top of the Pops show in America in 1987...

...and on his Glass Spider tour that same year...

Up tomorrow: a former Time-r knows an impostor.