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David Bowie

Heroes (LP)

Label: RCA Victor

Format: LP

Genre: Rock

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Original US edition of the beautiful, indisputable and indispensable 1977 influential experimental album with Brian Eno, with Robert Fripp's significant contribution. Indianapolis pressing.

condition (record/cover): EX / VG (ring and seams wear, corner creasing, cut-out on spine - innersleeve has some creasing)

With original innersleeve.

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. The vocal songs are fuller, boasting harder rhythms and deeper layers of sound. 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. Similarly, the instrumentals on Heroes are more detailed, this time showing a more explicit debt to German synth pop and European experimental rock. Essentially, the difference between Low and Heroes lies in the details, but the record is equally challenging and groundbreaking.

 

 

Details
Cat. number: AFL1-2522
Year: 1977
Release notes:
© 1977, RCA Records, New York, N.Y. [l406973] - Denoted by "Ɪ" in the runouts and a "1" diameter pressing ring. This is a label variant of the small-pressing-ring Indianapolis pressing, [r7545954]. On that submission, the b-side label omits track B5's duration. It is present on this submission. Lyrics are printed on the inner sleeve. Initial copies included an insert for the Bowie Fan Club offer. Some copies have gold "Demonstration Not For Sale" stamps on jacket. Runouts: All variants, I…
Tracklist
A1Beauty And The Beast3:32
A2Joe The Lion3:05
A3"Heroes"6:07
A4Sons Of The Silent Age3:15
A5Blackout3:50
B1V-2 Schneider3:10
B2Sense Of Doubt3:57
B3Moss Garden5:03
B4Neuköln4:34
B5The Secret Life Of Arabia3:46
Credits
Antonia Maass
Backing Vocals
Masayoshi Sukita
Cover [Photo]
George Murray
Electric Bass
Colin Thurston
Engineer
Mountain Studios
Engineer
Dave Richards
Engineer [Assistant]
Eugene Chaplin
Engineer [Assistant]
Robert Fripp
Guitar [Lead]
Carlos Alomar
Guitar [Rhythm]
Brian Eno
Keyboards, Synthesizer, Guitar [Treatments]
GC
Lacquer Cut By
Dennis Davis
Percussion
David Bowie
Producer, Backing Vocals, Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar, Saxophone, Koto
Tony Visconti
Producer, Engineer, Backing Vocals