Similarly, the instrumentals on Heroes are more detailed, this time showing a more explicit debt to German synth pop and European experimental rock. Much of the harder-edged sound of Heroes is due to Robert Fripp’s guitar, which provides a muscular foundation for the electronics, especially on the relatively conventional rock songs. The vocal songs are fuller, boasting harder rhythms and deeper layers of sound. Repeating the formula of Low’s half-vocal/half-instrumental structure, Heroes develops and strengthens the sonic innovations David Bowie and Brian Eno explored on their first collaboration. John Lennon was quoted as saying that when making his album Double Fantasy in 1980, his ambition was to “do something as good as ‘Heroes’.” It was named NME Album of the Year.
The album is considered one of his best by critics, notably for the contributions of guitarist Robert Fripp who flew in from the U.S. The title track remains one of Bowie’s best known, a classic story of two lovers who meet at the Berlin Wall. Of the three albums, it was the most befitting of the appellation “Berlin”, being the only one wholly recorded there. The second installment of his Berlin Trilogy with Brian Eno (the other releases being Low and Lodger) “Heroes” developed further the sound of Low. “Heroes” is the twelfth studio album by David Bowie, released in 1977. July–August 1977 at Hansa Studio by the Wall, West BerlinĪrt rock, experimental rock,ambient, krautrock
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