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}} | Genre = | Length = 53:07 (CD) 48:06 (vinyl) | Label = EMI America | Producer = | Last album = ''Labyrinth'' (1986) | This album = ''Never Let Me Down'' (1987) | Next album = ''Black Tie White Noise'' (1993) - ''Tin Machine'' (1989) | Misc = }} ''Never Let Me Down'' is the seventeenth studio album by David Bowie, released in April 1987 by EMI America. Bowie conceived the album as the foundation for a theatrical world tour, writing and recording most of the songs in Switzerland. He considered the record a return to rock 'n' roll music. Three singles were released from the album, "Day-In Day-Out", "Time Will Crawl" and "Never Let Me Down", the first two of which were top 10 hits around the world. One of Bowie's better-selling albums to date, ''Never Let Me Down'' was certified Gold by the RIAA in early July 1987, less than three months after its release date, and charted in the top 10 in several European countries, although it only reached number 34 on the US charts. Despite its commercial success, this album was poorly received by fans and critics, who often regard the mid-to-late 1980s as a low point of creativity and musical integrity for Bowie. Bowie later distanced himself from the album, but admitted a fondness for many of the songs and eventually remixed the track "Time Will Crawl" (one of his all-time favourites) for inclusion on his career retrospective release, ''iSelect'' (2008). In support of this album, Bowie embarked on the Glass Spider Tour, a world tour that was at that point the biggest, most theatrical and most elaborate tour he had undertaken in his career. The tour, like the album it supported, was commercially successful but critically panned. The critical failure of the album and tour were factors that led Bowie to look for a new way to motivate himself creatively, leading him to create the band Tin Machine in 1989 and to retire his back catalogue from live performances during his 1990 Sound+Vision Tour. Bowie did not release another solo album until ''Black Tie White Noise'' in 1993. ==Album development== Following the rise in fame and success from his 1983 album ''Let's Dance'' and its subsequent Serious Moonlight Tour, Bowie felt disconnected from his new found large fan base, and after the poor reception of ''Tonight'' (1984), he was looking to make the next album differently. As a result, Bowie said he wanted to return to recording with a small rock group like he had early in his career, and that he made the album as a "move back to rock 'n' roll music. Very directly." Bowie felt that the sound and style of his new album was reminiscent of his album ''Scary Monsters'' (1980) and was less like its immediate predecessors. Bowie spent the middle of 1986 in his home in Switzerland writing the songs with his friend Iggy Pop. Bowie wrote ''Never Let Me Down'' with the intention of performing the songs in a theatrical show. He then recorded a few demos with Erdal Kızılçay before working on the album with the full band. For the first time since his ''Scary Monsters'' album, Bowie played instruments on the record in addition to singing. For some tracks on the album, Bowie played keyboards, synthesizer, rhythm guitar and on two of the album's tracks ("New York's in Love" and "87 and Cry"), he played lead guitar.〔 The album took three months to write and record.〔 Bowie acknowledged that the songs on the album lacked a cohesive musical style, which he claimed reflected his eclectic musical tastes at the time, and stated that the album was "a reflection of all the styles of writing I've used over the last few years."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Never Let Me Down」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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