To support "Let's Dance", Bowie embarked on the Serious Moonlight Tour, which ran from 18 May to 8 December 1983. Bowie had not not embarked on a tour in five years, since the Isolar II world tour in 1978, so stakes were high. Pre-release interviews were promising an extravagant show. Rehearsals for the tour began in the spring of 1983, with Carlos Alomar back as bandleader. The majority of the "Let's Dance" personnel returned for the tour, with the exception of Stevie Ray Vaughan. While Vaughan was present for rehearsals, he was fired just days before the European leg was scheduled to begin. His firing was attributed to his alcohol and drug use, his request that his band Double Trouble be the supporting act being denied by Bowie, and Vaughan was supposedly "furious" that Bowie mimed to his guitar solo in the "Let's Dance" music video. Vaughan was replaced by Earl Slick, who previously played on the Diamond Dogs Tour (1974) and "Station to Station" (1976).