What was inside David Bowie’s record collection?

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Let’s dance!

Everyone, at some point, digs deep for inspiration. Even David Bowie. And when the Thin White Duke needed a musical boost, he turned to black vinyl.

According to the recently published “Music Lover: The Inside Story of David Bowie’s Record Collection,” Bowie’s resources were deep and varied. Albums ran the gamut from soul king Bobby Womack to glam rockers Mott the Hoople and rapper Kendrick Lamar.

Sometimes, Bowie’s earworms of the moment were off-the-wall. “There was a Polish folk ballet album [‘Helokanie’] that he basically rearranged and made up words to,” co-author Geoff MacCormack, a lifelong friend of Bowie, recalled to The Post. “It became something on one of his German albums. I think it was ‘Low.’ He picked up the album at Tower Records when we were in there browsing.”

Co-authors MacCormack and Jérôme Soligny (he met Bowie as a music journalist and they became music-swapping…

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