''heroes'' is one hopeful and passionate song of the late 70's that captured my alien-American imagination that this song spoke to me in freedom of dreaming in becoming into something that is bigger than ourselves in finding and holding to love even to the cost of pushing our minds to the edge of our false ego and pride to dissintegrate to death for the peak experience of feeling above human for a moment in the ''oneness'' of coming together into ourselves to become our own hero in the making without revenge or violence against anybody. Bowie has been a huge part of history.Īmazing the way bowie is using the as metaphors for playing to the superego to guide the ego and the self thru the two lovers that inspired him by the berlin wall, that actually can also be himself that was inspired in trying to feel the pain and suffering in the aftermath of the war that left people lost and divided. Some of the Berlin Wall protesters were big bowie fans. More about this song is that Bowie was performing near the Berlin Wall a concert singing heroes and people started to protest, the police stopped them and then a couple days later more protest happened then the Berlin Wall was gone. Bowie did not say he was the lover until later because he was married at the time and was cheating on his wife with the lover on the south side of the wall. The lovers were anonymous until bowie stated that it was Tony Visconti his music producer and manager. The people who he mentioned kissing by the wall heard gun shots so the song was about the protest and the Berlin Wall because Bowie was living in Berlin at the time with Iggy Pop in there apartment together so Bowie was very much apart of the Berlin Wall. One lover on south and the other on west. It's a shame because despite all of this, there isn't really a bad track on it.I am a huge Bowie fan and heard in many interviews that Bowie made the song about 2 lovers separated by the Berlin Wall. Completists will already have it but the casual fan will be better off investing in last year's Best Of. As a greatest hits package it fails due to a lack of vast swathes of classic tracks, yet there's not really enough rare stuff here to justify the hefty price tag. While Sound+ Vision satisfies as a lovely object, its strange mix of the known and unknown still leaves one asking who it's aimed at. Again one longs especially for the reissue of his soundtrack to The Buddha Of Suburbia TV series. On the plus side his subsequent work (Black Tie White Noise material included) is easily up to scratch. Reacquainting yourself with David's ersatz band confirms that their crime wasn't to be bad, just ordinary - a word that should never be applied to this artist. Mainly consisting of post-80s releases this means that we have to get to grips with some of the notorious Tin Machine back catalogue. The big difference in this version of Sound+ Vision is in the fourth disc. Simply put: will someone at EMI please get their finger out? Often reviled at the time of release, this smattering from his three missing albums (there are tracks here from Bowie Live, Stage and even the legendary Ziggy-era Santa Monica gig) merely serves to remindyouof the power of Bowie's voice in a live setting, and also his unerring sense of how to put together a great band. The set also goes some way to redressing the lack of live albums currently gracing Dave's section in the racks at HMV. We get gems such as a demo version of ''Space Oddity'', the German version of ''Heroes'' (''Helden'') and his Pinups era take on Bruce Springsteen (''It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City''). For many of those tracks (plus ones latterly seen on the Rarestonebowie album) appear here. In that sense this box almost makes up for this retro-miserliness. Bowie fans old and wise enough will remember those first reissues fondly for their extra tracks, now removed from the latest editions. On its first release the box accompanied a greatest hits tour and the first wave of CD reissues. But is this more than just decorative stocking-filler? Now it comes in a lovely new slipcase with all manner of posters, postcards and ephemera. Sound + Vision is, however, not a new venture but a revamped version of the early 90s attempt to round up rarities and classics in one hard-to-resist package. With only a few remaining pieces of the David Bowie re-release puzzle left to fill, EMI (with expert timing) decided to give us the full pre-Xmas box set treatment. Ah, there is nothing like a dame, or in this case the Dame.
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