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Heroes: The 6 best covers of David Bowie's classic (and three that are not quite so heroic)

This summer marks 46 years since Heroes – aka the greatest song ever written – was recorded at the mighty Hansa Studios in Berlin. During July and August 1977 the Bowie and Brian Eno song Heroes was ...
Travel Weekly

Bowie, Berlin & 'Heroes'

In his song "Heroes," David Bowie uses the image of two lovers on either side of the Berlin Wall as a metaphor for separation, loss and dreams of freedom. The song is embraced today by Germans as ...
Reuters

Berlin exhibition tells story of Bowie's "Heroes" years

BERLIN (Reuters) - David Bowie's intensely productive Berlin period - when he made the iconic albums "Heroes" and "Low", launched Iggy Pop's solo career and kicked a drug habit - is the theme of a new ...
Paste

Hear David Bowie Perform “Heroes,” Released on This Day in 1977

David Bowie’s 12th studio album, Heroes, was released on this day in 1977. The album was recorded in what used to be West Berlin, and it’s considered the second part of Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy, a ...

This Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Thinks David Bowie Is 'Overrated'

When The Guardian asked the '80s rock icon, celebrated drummer, and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee who he thought was "the ...
WBAL

Remembering ‘Heroes’: Berlin unveils plaque to David Bowie

BERLIN (AP) — Berlin's mayor has inaugurated a memorial to a hero: a plaque commemorating David Bowie's time in the then-divided city in the late 1970s. Mayor Michael Mueller recalled Bowie's "special ...
Bleeding Cool

David Bowie Performs "Heroes": Bing Crosby's 1977 Christmas Special

Everyone remembers his duet during Bing Crosby's 1977 Christmas special, but David Bowie's performance of "Heroes" is a ...
LAist

The miking secrets of David Bowie's 'Heroes'

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...
The Cheat Sheet

David Bowie’s Hit Song ‘Heroes’ Was Inspired By a Book Both He and His Wife Iman Loved

Iman moved to New York from Somalia in 1975 to pursue modeling. She was a big fish thrown into a small pond, but over the years, Iman rose to become one of the world’s leading supermodels. In 1990, ...
The Hollywood Reporter

David Bowie Plaque Unveiled in Berlin

Bowie lived in the German capital from 1976 to 1978. By The Associated Press Berlin’s Mayor Michael Mueller has inaugurated a memorial to a hero: a plaque commemorating David Bowie‘s time in the ...
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian

Bowie’s surprise new album gives a new look to old Berlin

In “The Next Day,” David Bowie’s unexpected new album and first release since 2003, the 66-year-old clearly has Berlin on his mind. The surprise album that shattered the singer’s nearly 10-year ...