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David Bowie original painting art print based on the album art "Heroes." Artwork is giclee scanned and reproduced in the highest quality. Signed and Numbered by Artist, limited edition. Measures 12X18.
"Heroes" is the twelfth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released on RCA Records on 14 October 1977. The second installment of his "Berlin Trilogy" recorded with Brian Eno and Tony Visconti, "Heroes" continued the ambient experiments of Bowie's previous album Low (released earlier that year) and featured the contributions of guitarist Robert Fripp.[5] Of the three albums, it was the only one wholly recorded in Berlin.
It was well received by critics, and was named NME Album of the Year. The title track remains one of Bowie's best known and acclaimed songs.[6] The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[7]
Production and style[edit]
Recorded at Hansa Tonstudio in what was then West Berlin, "Heroes" reflected the zeitgeist of the Cold War, symbolised by the divided city. Co-producer Tony Visconti considered it "one of my last great adventures in making albums. The studio was about 500 yards [460 metres] from the Berlin Wall. Red Guards would look into our control-room window with powerful binoculars."[8] Earlier in 1977, Kraftwerk had name-checked Bowie on the title track of Trans-Europe Express, and he 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! – whose guitarist Michael Rother had originally been approached to play on the album[9] – while "V-2 Schneider" is inspired by and named after Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider.[10] The cover photo by Masayoshi Sukita was inspired by German artist Erich Heckel's Roquairol.[11]
Brian Eno instigated Robert Fripp's involvement by telephoning him in New York and inviting him to play guitar on the album. Fripp had considered himself retired from music but said, "Well, I don't know because I haven't played for three years, but if you're prepared to take a risk, then so am I."[12] Upon arriving at the studio from New York, and suffering from jet lag, Fripp recorded a guitar part for the track "Beauty and the Beast": this first take was used in the song's final mix.[12] Bowie said that the quotation marks in the title "indicate a dimension of irony about the word 'heroes' or about the whole concept of heroism".[13]
Although "Heroes" continued Bowie's work in electronic[3] and ambient music styles[4] and included a number of dark and atmospheric instrumentals such as "Sense of Doubt" and "Neuköln", it was regarded as a highly passionate and positive artistic statement,[8][10] particularly after the often melancholy Low.[14] The lyrics for "Joe the Lion", written and recorded at the microphone "in less than an hour" according to Visconti, typified the improvisational nature of the recording.[15]
Eno employed his Oblique Strategies cards during the recording of the album. Stories suggest they were used during the recording of instrumentals such as "Sense of Doubt".[16]
Release and impact[edit]
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 5/5 stars[17]
Blender 4/5 stars[18]
Chicago Tribune 3/4 stars[19]
Christgau's Record Guide B+[20]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music 5/5 stars[21]
Entertainment Weekly A−[22]
NME 8/10[23]
Pitchfork 10/10[24]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 4.5/5 stars[25]
Select 5/5[26]
RCA Records marketed "Heroes" with the slogan "There's Old Wave. There's New Wave. And there's David Bowie ..."[10] It enjoyed a positive critical reception on release in late 1977,[6] Melody Maker and NME both naming it "Album of the Year".[27][28] It reached No. 3 in the UK and stayed in the charts for 26 weeks, but was less successful in the US where it peaked at No. 35. The album was released in Germany with the title track renamed ""Heroes"/"Helden"" and partly in German. An early instance of the album's enduring influence is John Lennon's comment in 1980 that, when making his album Double Fantasy, his ambition was to "do something as good as "Heroes"."[6][27] Rolling Stone highlighted Eno's contribution, contending that after Bowie's "auteurist exploitation" of the former on Low, "Heroes" "prompts a much more enthusiastic reading of the collaboration, which here takes the form of a union of Bowie's dramatic instincts and Eno's unshakable sonic serenity".[29]
Several songs from the album were played live on Bowie's Low and Heroes World Tour of 1978, and released on the live album Stage in the same year. Philip Glass adapted a classical suite, "Heroes" Symphony, from this album as a companion to his earlier Low Symphony. The title track has been covered by numerous artists, for example as an encore by subsequent incarnations of King Crimson, and Billy Mackenzie sang "The Secret Life of Arabia" in 1982 for the B.E.F. LP Music of Quality and Distinction. Several tracks were used in the film Christiane F. Bowie performed as himself in the film.
The cover of Bowie's 2013 album, The Next Day, is an altered and obscured version of the "Heroes" cover. This version has "Heroes" crossed out and Bowie's face obscured by an opaque white box reading "The Next Day".
Track listing[edit]
Original release[edit]
All tracks written by David Bowie except where noted.
Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Beauty and the Beast" 3:32
2. "Joe the Lion" 3:05
3. ""Heroes"" Bowie, Brian Eno 6:07
4. "Sons of the Silent Age" 3:15
5. "Blackout" 3:50
Total length: 19:49
Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Length
6. "V-2 Schneider" 3:10
7. "Sense of Doubt" 3:57
8. "Moss Garden" Bowie, Eno 5:03
9. "Neuköln" Bowie, Eno 4:34
10. "The Secret Life of Arabia" Bowie, Eno, Carlos Alomar 3:46
Total length: 20:30 (40:19)
Reissues[edit]
"Heroes" has been released on CD four times. The first CD issue was by RCA in 1984. It was reissued in 1991 by Rykodisc with two bonus tracks on silver disc and later in the 1990s Ryko also released it on a numbered 20-bit SBM Gold edition. A further release in 1999 by EMI/Virgin featured 24-bit digitally remastered sound and no bonus tracks.
1991 reissue bonus tracks
No. Title Length
11. "Abdulmajid" (Previously unreleased track, recorded 1976–79; composed by Bowie and Eno) 3:40
12. "Joe the Lion" (Remixed version, 1991) 3:08
Personnel[edit]
David Bowie – vocals, keyboards, guitars, saxophone, koto, tambourine,[30] backing vocals, producer
Carlos Alomar – rhythm guitar
Dennis Davis – drums, percussion
George Murray – bass guitar
Brian Eno – synthesisers, keyboards, guitar treatments
Robert Fripp – lead guitar
Tony Visconti – percussion,[30] backing vocals, producer
Antonia Maass – backing vocals
Colin Thurston – engineer