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"Life on Mars?" is a song by the English musician David Bowie, first released on his 1971 album Hunky Dory. Bowie wrote the song as a parody of Frank Sinatra's "My Way". "Life on Mars?" was recorded on 6 August 1971 at Trident Studios in London, and was co-produced by Bowie and Ken Scott.
Bowie composed the song with multi-instrumentalist Brian Eno (pictured in 2008), who had the word heroes in mind for the initial chord sequence.. After completing his work co-producing Iggy Pop's Lust for Life (1977) and various promotional events, David Bowie spent a few weeks devising ideas and concepts with multi-instrumentalist Brian Eno for his next studio album. [1]
"Heroes" [a] is the twelfth studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 14 October 1977 through RCA Records.Recorded in collaboration with the musician Brian Eno and the producer Tony Visconti, it was the second release of his Berlin Trilogy, following Low, released in January the same year, and the only one wholly recorded in Berlin.
A volume shift in the song "' Heroes '" had received particular notice, which Parlophone proceeded to describe as intentional and unalterable, [14] because of damages in the original master tapes. After the critical voices wouldn't lessen, a statement was released on the official Bowie website, announcing corrected replacement discs for the ...
Biographer David Buckley remarked on the song's "doomy sax-driven verses set incongruously aside cheesy choruses". [2] The lyrics have been interpreted as a third-person revisitation of the themes of psychotic withdrawal explored on Bowie's previous album Low ("Pacing their rooms just like a cell’s dimensions"), as well as referencing the characters from his 1970 song "The Supermen" ("They ...
The Isolar II – The 1978 World Tour, [1] more commonly known as The Low / Heroes World Tour or The Stage Tour, [2] was a worldwide concert tour by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie. The tour opened on 29 March 1978 at the San Diego Sports Arena continuing through North America, Europe and Australia before reaching a conclusion at the ...
Heroes (book series), short novels and plays intended for young boys; Heroes, a 1996 comic book by DC Comics; Heroes, a 1998 novel by Robert Cormier; Heroes, a translation by Tom Stoppard of Le Vent Des Peupliers by Gérald Sibleyras
"V-2 Schneider" is a largely instrumental song written by David Bowie in 1977 for the album "Heroes", and released as the B-side of "' Heroes '". The song was not played on the subsequent Isolar II Tour and its first live rendition occurred in 1997, 20 years after it was recorded. [1] Mojo magazine listed it as Bowie's 95th best track in 2015. [2]