A promotional video for David Bowie and Mick Jagger's 1985 hit single "Dancing in the Street."A promotional video for David Bowie and Mick Jagger's 1985 hit single "Dancing in the Street."A promotional video for David Bowie and Mick Jagger's 1985 hit single "Dancing in the Street."
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- 1 win & 1 nomination
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Did you know
- TriviaThe song was released at the time where both David Bowie and Mick Jagger were attempting to become major pop stars. Jagger, dissatisfied with the Rolling Stones and the friction with guitarist Keith Richards, sought to ignite a solo career. Bowie had found mainstream success in the 1980s and had been recording pop music to retain the audience he gathered since 1983's Let's Dance. Ultimately, Jagger's attempts at a solo career failed leading him to recommit to the Rolling Stones in 1989. That same year that Bowie formed the band Tin Machine to shed the pop music persona he had cultivated up to that point.
- ConnectionsEdited into Bowie: The Video Collection (1993)
Featured review
Underappreciated delight
Video shot in a matter of hours for a charity duet cover recorded the same day. Old pals Bee & Jay do indeed dance, exuberantly, in the (empty) streets, as well as a derelict building. Bowie lip-syncs a tiny lyric wrong, but that's okay. No need to re-shoot. It's fine. About mid-video, waiting for his next line, Jagger picks up a mystery can off the ground and drinks from it, then does some light grooming.
These men were not only rock stars, but fashion icons. Bowie wears a smart trenchcoat over a snazzy onesie, which has both sleeves and both legs; this isn't Ziggy Stardust, but a refined, established, post-Serious Moonlight, pushing-40 rock icon. Meanwhile, Jagger's white sneakers introduce the video, immediately banishing any doubts you may have had as to the decade it was produced in. He tops his outfit off with a swishy seafoam blouse that could've clothed both him and Bowie.
Not that these two needed a get-along shirt; the onscreen duet is aflame with all the chemistry you'd expect. Their carefree, improvised moves range from jumping to bouncing to hopping to jazz hands to that swoopy arm thing Bowie does a lot (see: Ashes to Ashes) (and then Jagger does it too). These 3 minutes of music history are dense with rewatch value. Enjoy "DitS" with someone you love - just as Bowie and Jagger made it.
These men were not only rock stars, but fashion icons. Bowie wears a smart trenchcoat over a snazzy onesie, which has both sleeves and both legs; this isn't Ziggy Stardust, but a refined, established, post-Serious Moonlight, pushing-40 rock icon. Meanwhile, Jagger's white sneakers introduce the video, immediately banishing any doubts you may have had as to the decade it was produced in. He tops his outfit off with a swishy seafoam blouse that could've clothed both him and Bowie.
Not that these two needed a get-along shirt; the onscreen duet is aflame with all the chemistry you'd expect. Their carefree, improvised moves range from jumping to bouncing to hopping to jazz hands to that swoopy arm thing Bowie does a lot (see: Ashes to Ashes) (and then Jagger does it too). These 3 minutes of music history are dense with rewatch value. Enjoy "DitS" with someone you love - just as Bowie and Jagger made it.
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- May 16, 2020
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- London, England, UK(London Docklands)
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