“As soon as we played that, I screamed. I could tell right away that it was a smash”: Nile Rodgers breaks down how he and David Bowie made Let’s Dance

Nile Rodgers.

The new David Bowie Centre at the V&A East’s Storehouse contains a treasure trove of material about the man and his illustrious career. And in addition to the many thousands of Bowie-related artefacts, the V&A has now put online a revealing interview with Nile Rodgers about his working relationship with the great man, and in particular the making of Let’s Dance.

The track was the lead single from the 1983 album of the same name and, as Rodgers explains, was originally a very different beast to the hit version we now know.