Nostalgic Video: Bowie in the 80s

Lately I've been getting into David Bowie material that didn't trickle down from my mother's Best Of Bowie collections. Maybe I'll burn her Hunky Dory? Nonetheless, I wanted to honor two videos that constituted my earliest introduction to The Thin White Duke, Mr. Stardust, or whatever you want to call him. About the first video, "Let's Dance": Remember those kids with the red shoes? ("Put on your red shoes and dance the blues.") And the second: I'll leave it a surprise for now, but suffice it to say Mr. Bowie's skintight white pants introduced many of us to the terms "boner," "hard-on," etc.

I've heard more than one Bowie fan say the 80s were not his best work --- yet this was the time of my childhood when I started watching MTV and, yes, Jim Henson films. Fans have hopefully forgiven Bowie for his transgressions during this era; here's hoping he'll forgive me for posting them for you here.