These Are the Good Times, Part 2
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia
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The Rise and Fall of Nyle Rogers
Let's Dance album tested Nyle Rogers' skills as a producer and a ranger. Bowie would bring him songs from the album, including an oddball track from a 1977 LP Bowie wrote with and for his friend Iggy Pop called China Girl. It too was a hit, peaking at number ten. No David Bowie album had ever generated three hits in America. Let's Dance broke that streak when Modern Love, produced by Nyle Rogers as debonair jet-setting dance rock reached number fourteen on the Hot 100.
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