David Bowie: Heroes and Connections with Berlin

[5468764654]

who did the terrible editing on this?

[ChimeraAZ]

He looks sooo fu cked up singing Heros here. Just watch his eyes.Lol!

I met him when I worked in the Starwood Nightclub,in LA.At the VIP Entrance.And,yes,he's really a nice guy.

[skeletonkey6]

A very lucid, insightful, and well spoken Bowie in the 1977 clip. When he says he can't remember what he was talking about "at that particular point", is this the Station to Station period when he was in LA?

[kjsh987]

@skeletonkey6 perhaps.the drugs make him forget some moments.the ziggy era aparently he renember

[leonoel42]

I kind of know what you mean about the drug thing and it's easy to stereotype he's better as a junkie but then i listen to The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory and Ziggy all of which were made pretty drug free. His addictions didn't really start until he moved to America for the USA 1974 Diamond Dogs tour and thereafter.

[greedkiller]

I went to Berlin once and all I did was riding the S Bahn in circles with Heroes on repeat on my mp3 player.

[bspowerful]

bowie iin diesem song sehr gut

es wurde über chrisiane f dieser song nur mit drogenkonsum gleichgesetzt

das ist falsch ich war in berlin zu zeiten der berliner mauer als dieses konzert stattfand es war einmalig die leute in der ddr taten mir leid

[Jennifr1966]

I agree. Bowie had a lot of passion, but not on drugs, when he authored this song.

[baboon2525]

Ah, memories of visiting Bowie's old house in Berlin... The two will always be intrinsically linked in my mind.

[metalhead19931]

I'm a 17 year old straight male, but if Bowie and Iman ever split up, I would be all over that!

[pythonbyte]

once bowie stopped taking drugs, his music suffered.

[Bodacea1]

@pythonbyte Well I don't agree with that at all.

[ohdear671]

@Bodacea1 That's because he really doesn't mean it himself.

[Hog4n]

@pythonbyte Dude, he didn't do drugs when he made The Berlin trilogy and those albums are one of his finest!

[DeccaQuinne]

@pythonbyte That's a bit harsh. Besides - don't famous people usually mean 'cut down' when they say they've 'given up'. 

[Jennifr1966]

I disagree. He might have had a couple bad songs, but who knows what he was going through during that time. besides, most creators have a few missteps. I still think he is amazing.

[TheBookWorm1718]

@Jennifr1966 Those were his Phil Collins years, LOL.

[Adalbert101]

thanks for this!

[sazerac1]

Bowie's son lived with dad and Iggy Pop in Berlin. He wants do direct a movie he wrote called "Mute" that take place there.

[GretlFilm]

Berlin Bowie'go

[oleedee]

so what documentary is this?

[Zephyrus5491]

Bowie is such a legend!!!!

[piroschka6]

...met him in a snack bar that time eating a sausage and looking very "normal"...

[Ralexand1988]

A german "Bratwurst"? :D amazing ^^

[naumnn]

You actually met him!? How great for you!

[Sileah]

@piroschka6

What? He didn't look gorgeous? Even by eating a sausage? *gg*

May be sometimes, he just human ;o)

[Sileah]

"...and so a kind of the infantil faszination that I had for that period, was quickly blown away, I think".

THX, Mr. Jones for these words!

[greenmagoos]

Come on Mr Bowie it was more than a horrendous coke habit and an infantile obsession with English mythology that was making you behave like that.

Out with the truth Mr Jones. It was that movie and what you learned about the moon wasn't it?

[garleec]

Thank you for sharing my friend.

[butlincat]

yep-he lived with iggy pop for a year there + was bombed out of his mind most of the time i bet,+ wouldnt u in somewhere like berlin? even lou reeds berlin album leaves u reaching for the antidepressives - makes u wanna cry

[Sileah]

Have ever been in Berlin?

I think you wouldn't write such a nonsense!

Berlin is GREAT! People have a buoyant spirit.

I think Bowie recovered in Berlin a lot ;-)

[butlincat]

u should be more honest - i come from london yet can say parts are extremly depressing,like the poorer areas where i originate,similar to whats depicted in this vid-tenements etc - theres nothing wrong with that,its just the way it is - + if bowie recovered in berlin how come he cant remember it with a clearer mind he would have had if hed recovered?

[Sileah]

Yeah...but the fact ist Lou Reed wasn't  in Berlin at all in these days. He road an album about a town, that he didn't enter, in this time. Pure imagination. So put away your valium, Belin rules ;o)

[racyweb]

Bodacea1 you are one of my heroes. Bow down to King David lol

[LadyScreaming]

Yeah! Agreed! Long live the King! :-)

[Sileah]

I love him since many years...I simply can't stopp *g*

[botbagel]

@Sileah I've never been able to shake him either!