For the entirety of the 1970s, David Bowie had been on the vanguard of rock music, evolving from a gender-bending glam-rocker to an extraterrestrial soul man to a reclusive future-pop soothsayer. But while he was a superstar in his U.K. home country, his U.S. crossover success was more sporadic, and by the early ’80s, he’d gone several albums without scoring a big stateside hit. But that commercial cold streak officially ended in 1983, a year in which he courted pop success in a more explicit way than ever before, and got all that he could handle — with chart-topping singles, unavoidable music videos, his biggest tour ever, and a rise to global superstardom that ultimately left both Bowie and his fans a little uneasy.
On this Vintage Pop Stardom episode of the Greatest Pop Stars podcast, we belatedly commemorate the 10th anniversary of David Bowie’s 2016 passing by looking back at his 1983 pop peak, and examine how the most outsider rock star of his generation suddenly found his way to pop stardom’s inner circle. Host Andrew Unterberger is joined by Chris Molanphy of Slate and the Hit Parade podcast to talk all things ’83 Bowie, and how they still hold this era of his in high esteem — even though many Bowiephiles have more mixed feelings about it decades later, as did Bowie himself in later years —while also sharing their memories of his shocking death 10 years ago.
Along the way, all the most pressing questions about Bowie’s 1983 are addressed: Why was David Bowie so damn intent on conquering pop music in 1983? Was the top 40 of that era catching up to Bowie — and collaborator Nile Rodgers — as much as they were catching up to it? What made Bowie such a natural fit for peak MTV? Is there any defending “China Girl” and its music video 40-plus years later? Is any of Let’s Dance worth a damn beyond its hits/ Are any of the movies Bowie made in ’83 worth returning to — and why didn’t he ever quite succeed at film stardom how he did at pop stardom? And perhaps most importantly: Does ’83 Bowie deserve to be as fondly remembered as Ziggy Stardust Bowie and Berlin Bowie?
Check it out above — along with a YouTube playlist of some of the most memorable moments of Phil’s 1985, all of which are discussed in the podcast — and subscribe to the Greatest Pop Stars podcast on Apple Music or Spotify (or wherever you get your podcasts) for weekly discussions every Thursday about all things related to pop stardom!
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