<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> "Modern Love" on YouTube </Td> </Tr> <P> "Modern Love" is a song written and recorded by David Bowie . It was the opening track to his fifteenth studio album Let's Dance . It was issued as the third single from the album in 1983 . </P> <P> Bowie claimed the song was inspired by Little Richard, and it maintains the album's theme of a struggle between God and man . The line "Get me to the church on time" from the lyrics is the title of "Get Me to the Church on Time" from My Fair Lady . </P> <P> By the time "Modern Love" was issued and edited as a single, Bowie's Serious Moonlight Tour was underway . The track had become a popular encore on the tour, and Jim Yukich's video for the song used footage of Bowie and his band performing the song from concert in Philadelphia on 20 July 1983 . A live version, recorded in Montreal on 13 July, was on the B - side . </P>

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