Condition: Used
David Bowie - Heroes
Label: RCA
Catalog#: AFL1-2522
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Vinyl: VG+ several light scuffs
Cover: has ring wear and minor wear to edges and corners
With original inner sleeve VG ringwear, creases, bottom edge split 5 inches
Country: Canada issue
Released: 1980
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Pop Rock, Prog Rock, Experimental
Credits: Backing Vocals - Antonia Maass
Bass - George Murray
Engineer - Colin Thurston
Guitar [Lead] - Robert Fripp
Guitar [Rhythm] - Carlos Alomar
Percussion - Dennis Davis
Producer, Engineer, Backing Vocals - Tony Visconti
Producer, Vocals, Backing Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar, Saxophone, Koto - David Bowie
Synthesizer, Keyboards, Guitar [Treatments] - Brian Eno
Notes: Recorded at Hansa by the Wall, Berlin.
Mixed at Mountain Studios, Montreux.
Previously released as AFL1-2522
Tracklisting:
Side A
A1 Beauty And The Beast (3:32)
A2 Joe The Lion (3:05)
A3 "Heroes" (6:07)
A4 Sons Of The Silent Age (3:15)
A5 Blackout (3:50)
Side B
B1 V-2 Schneider (3:10)
B2 Sense Of Doubt (3:57)
B3 Moss Garden (5:03)
B4 Neuköln (4:34)
B5 The Secret Life Of Arabia (3:46)
"Heroes" (the quotation marks are part of the title, for reasons of irony) is an album by David Bowie, released in 1977. The second installment of Bowie's 'Berlin Trilogy' with Brian Eno (the other releases being Low and Lodger) "Heroes" is similar in sound to Low but more robust and visceral. Of the three albums, it was the most befitting of the appellation "Berlin", being the only one wholly recorded and mixed there. The mood of the record reflected the zeitgeist of the Cold War, symbolised by the divided city.
The title track remains one of Bowie's best known, a classic story of two lovers who meet at the Berlin Wall. The album is considered one of his best by critics, notably for the contributions of guitarist Robert Fripp (who flew in from the U.S. to record his parts in one day).[2] John Lennon was quoted as saying that when making Double Fantasy in 1980, his ambition was to "do something as good as Heroes."]
On "Heroes", Bowie again paid tribute to his Krautrock influences: the title is a nod to the track "Hero" on the album NEU! '75 by the German band Neu! while "V-2 Schneider" is inspired by and named for Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider; earlier in 1977, Kraftwerk had name-checked Bowie on the title track of Trans-Europe Express. The cover photo was inspired by Erich Heckel's Roquairol, as was that of The Idiot, one of Bowie's collaborations with Iggy Pop that was released the same year.
Though "Heroes" included a number of dark and atmospheric instrumentals such as "Sense of Doubt" and "Neuköln", as well as the sprawling confessional "Blackout", after the melancholy and inward-looking Low it was regarded as a highly passionate and positive artistic statement. This was evident not only through "Heroes" the song but in the rocking opener "Beauty and the Beast" (released as the second single in January 1978), the raucous "Joe the Lion" and the light-hearted closer "The Secret Life of Arabia". The lyrics for "Joe the Lion", written and recorded at the microphone "in less than an hour" according to co-producer Tony Visconti, typified the improvisational nature of the recording.
"Heroes" was marketed by RCA with the catch phrase, "There’s Old Wave. There’s New Wave. And there's David Bowie..."
David Bowie - Heroes
The song is musically perfect, and the theme resonates with anyone who seeks it out. I have loved this song since the first time I heard it.
great, i remember David & Iggy were around in Berlin. they produced Heroes at Hansa Studios right at the wall next to deserted potsdamer platz. great time. you met David at the bar, smoked joints with Iggy - tres cool. nobody gave a shit on their fame, but they were respected, and we felt honored. but we knew already, west-berlin was the coolest spot on the planet,
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David Bowie V2 Schneider
I adore this tune, and i think Davids most creative period was working with the great Eno on Heroes and Low, dark eastern european days!!!!
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