“Heroes” was recorded at Berlin’s famous Hansa Tonstudio 2 during July and August 1977. No English TV to speak of, except AFN – the American Forces Network.” “The atmosphere was dense” “I agree that at times it was like living in a timeless zone. “When I settled there, I found the claustrophobia of the Wall almost comforting,” he said in a 2003 interview with Vogue. The two men enjoyed the relative anonymity of their new existence, and Bowie quickly absorbed the atmosphere in the divided city. His desire to jettison his increasingly toxic LA lifestyle was paramount, but he was also tuning into newly discovered envelope-pushing German outfits such as Neu!, Harmonia and Kraftwerk, and he’d begun to incorporate those artists’ minimalist approach into his own music.īowie and Pop thus moved into an apartment above a car-spares shop at Hauptstrasse 155 in West Berlin’s Schöneberg district. Listen to “Heroes” here.Īlong with his friend and former Stooges frontman Iggy Pop, Bowie had left Los Angeles and relocated to Berlin while finishing work on his previous album. Unlike the preceding Lowand 1979’s succeeding Lodger, “Heroes” was totally conceived and recorded in Berlin, and the record’s content was significantly influenced by the city’s cultural and political vibe. The second instalment in his “Berlin Trilogy”, David Bowie’s “Heroes” owes the most of the trio’s albums to the then-divided German metropolis.
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