David Bowie - "Heroes"

 - Vancouver, British Columbia - When I reviewed the first entry in the Berlin trilogy, Low, I noted that it was a pretty light album and fun at times. It’s interesting because at the time, it was regarded as a fairly dark and melancholy album. I guess I have to assume that it was for 1977. Well, less than a year later, Bowie and Brian Eno recorded and released “Heroes” in Berlin, technically making it the only ‘true’ entry in the trilogy, as it was wholly completed in Berlin. Again, as stated in the last entry, Eno was not the producer of this album (Bowie and Tony Visconti were), but a collaborator. Interestingly enough, Eno had persuaded King Crimson founder and guitarist Robert Fripp to come play on the album, which he did in one day. Apparently Fripp had no interest being in the music scene again, but working on this album rekindled something within him. Fripp would go on to continue working with Peter Gabriel in his solo albums, and would reform King Crimson in 1981. But for more information on that, stay tuned to Doug Ferguson’s “The History of the Crimson King” series here on Sour Grapes Winery.

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