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'As I was laying down the bass track I could see Mick dancing around the studio, just getting into the music as if he were onstage,' he told Songfacts in 2016. As John Regan, who played bass on the song, notes, Jagger's energy was driven by the power of the music. Ouch.īut we shouldn't be too harsh on Dancing In The Street. It's an opinion shared around the world and through the years: Guardian readers voted it the Worst Music Video Of All Time, while the NME placed it at No 12 in their 50 Worst Videos list - only marginally worse than Nickelback's Rockstar. As Peter Grffin's opinion demonstrates, maybe the American audience were put off by the undignified capering of the video. The US weren't so sure - it only made Number 7 in the Billboard Top 100. Needless to say, when Dancing In the Street was issued as a single on 12 August, it went to Number 1 in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain and Canada. However, the tone of the Dancing In The Street video jarred with Bowie's own live set, which he cut short to play the video of The Cars' Drive, which had been set to images of the Ethiopian famine.ĭavid Bowie performing at the Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium in London, 13th July 1985. The clip was taken in the spirit in which the song was created: to raise awareness, to create a moment that would hopefully people to donate to the Live Aid charity to help alleviate famine in Africa. On the day of Live Aid, comedian Chevy Chase introduced the video from Philadelphia following Queen's momentous set from London.

But, by the end of a thirteen hour period, the single was recorded and the video made.ĭavid Bowie & Mick Jagger's Dancing In The Street single. The video ends with Mallett's camera zooming in on Bowie and Jaggers' arses, waggling in unison. Two hugely-successful musicians that influenced successive generations are captured looking like embarrassing dads. It's this playful irreverence that causes many people to cringe. This prompted Bowie - dressed in a jumpsuit and long raincoat - to play up to the cameras too. Mallett kept it simple: the performers improvised some moves, with Mick throwing out some of his best Jaggerisms. They were hurried to the Millennium Mills in London's Docklands to work swiftly with director David Mallett, who Bowie had collaborated with on the ground-breaking Ashes To Ashes video.ĭavid Bowie - Ashes To Ashes (Official Video) Mick doesn’t bother with politeness, he’s more the like the mad leader of the gang, shouting out ideas to the troops.'Ī rough version of the track was completed in four hours, then it was time for Bowie and Jagger to make the infamous video. Alamy Stock PhotoĬonti remembered the difference between the two superstars in the studio: 'Bowie was, as always, very polite, a real gentleman. Musicians included Steve Nieve, keyboard player with Elvis Costello And The Attractions and drummer Neil Conti of Prefab Sprout.Ī promo poster for the Mick Jagger/David Bowie single Dancing In The Street.Įverett Collection, Inc.

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The song was recorded on 29 June 1985 at Westside studios in London, where Bowie was working on two songs for the soundtrack to the movie Absolute Beginners.

The opening line is 'Calling out around the world', which linked nicely with the 'Global Jukebox' idea of Live Aid Simple! The song chosen was the 1964 Motown classic from Martha And The Vandellas, Dancing In The Street. The compromise was to record a single together, make a video quickly and play the clip on the big screens at Wembley and JFK. Jagger and Bowie perform Dancing In The Street for the only time at the Prince's Trust 10th Birthday show at Wembley Arena on 20 June 1986. One solution was that one of them had to mime, and neither Jagger nor Bowie wanted that. However, combining the two performances proved to be too much of a nightmare for 1985 technology - a half second delay via the satellite link would mean that one or both of the performers would be thrown out by the timing.