David Bowie - Heroes

"Heroes" is the second album from David Bowie's "Berlin Trilogy" and while it's not the best of the trilogy (I would have to give that to "Low") the title track of this album is one of my all-time favorite songs.

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• David
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• Berlin
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• Synthesizer
• 1977

[eatmorenachos]

I love this song.

On the album Heroes he started with the line about "I, I will be king" yet in other versions I started with the dolphins stanza, I've also heard versions where he starts off with the "you can be mean" line. Anyone have any insight on this?

Been a Bowie fan for a long time and I always wondered.

[nesplayer94]

I'm not sure about the "you can be mean" line. I believe he used that during his Serious Moonlight Tour in 1983. Also, the single version of this song starts cuts the first stanza off and goes directly to the third stanza. This version is the full 6:00 album version from his "Heroes" album in 1977

[paddy9i99]

Bollocks.

'Heroes' is a great record, the only album of the trilogy, recorded, mixd and engineered in Berlin. Low wasn't and Lodger was just plain shit.

[nesplayer94]

I agree is an absolutely excellent record. The instrumentals are more interesting than those on "Low". I think that "Low" achieved more on an artistic level so from that perspective it is probably the best. But after listening to the entire 'Berlin Trilogy' over again I think I had more fun listening to "Heroes" it is a great record indeed.

[zacatecas2002]

This is Bowie's best song and nothing else is even close.

[Autonomy87]

This is the greatest love song of all time. David Bowie, while recording this album in the Studio By The Wall in Berlin watched 2 lovers meet by The Berlin Wall to kiss. It inspired him to write this song. The fact that 2 lovers, 1 from East Berlin, and the other from West would risk their own lives in the name of love is amazing.

[vazmo14850]

i have a 12" vinyl promo copy of this...my prized record!

[vazmo14850]

i agree...low is absolute balls out Genius!!!

[montereypopfestiva67]

One of the most beautiful songs ever written

[Salineddi]

@Nekhben1 Brian Eno and Bowie. What a magnificent musical marriage!

[kipperfeast]

@zacatecas2002 Ha! "Fame" blows it away.

[tanpiltanpil]

Bowie's best album.

[124norge124]

whats the synthesisers voice?

[SKOTP69]

MASTERPIECE!

[doubleder]

@Nekhben1 Can't agree more! Moss Garden is beyond words! I absolutely love that song!

[sedlmayr]

@eatmorenachos there is a german version of this too. Bowie sings german the third line (i dont remember exactly). This version i mentioned is on the album "Christiane F." a soundtrack from "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof ZOO" film.