A year later , while working with Tin Machine on their second album , he mused on his previous few albums : " You can tell I was terribly unhappy in the late '80s . ... I was in that netherworld of commercial acceptance . It was an awful trip . 1983 , ' 84 , ' 85 , ' 86 , '87 – those five years were simply dreadful . ... '' Never Let Me Down '' had good songs that I mistreated . I did n't really apply myself . I was n't quite sure what I was supposed to be doing . I wish there had been someone around who could have told me . " In 1993 , while doing press tours for his album '' Black Tie White Noise '' , Bowie acknowledged that , while the album sold more than any of his previous albums ( except '' Let 's Dance '' ) , he felt that while making it he had almost lost his interest in making music altogether . He elaborated , " In the end I did n't lose the songs , but I lost the sound . ... I literally threw them away by giving them to very good people to arrange but not being involved myself , almost to the point of indifference . " In 1995 , Bowie spoke more at length about how he felt his creativity and music had suffered after the success of '' Let 's Dance '' : No song from this album was performed on any of Bowie 's tours after 1987 . Bowie revisited the idea of re-recording tracks from the album in the late 1980s , 1990s and 2000s , a project which came to fruition in 2018 with the release of '' Never Let Me Down 2018 '' , two years after Bowie 's death
Bowie 's death
Death of David Bowie
Never Let Me Down