| "Heroes" | ||||
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| Studio album by David Bowie | ||||
| Released | 14 October 1977 | |||
| Recorded | July–August 1977 at Hansa Studio by the Wall, West Berlin | |||
| Genre | Art rock, experimental rock, ambient, krautrock | |||
| Length | 40:36 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Producer | David Bowie, Tony Visconti | |||
| David Bowie chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |  [1] |
| Robert Christgau | B+[2] |
| Rolling Stone | (favorable)[3] |
| RS Album Guide |  [4] |
"Heroes"[5] is an album by David Bowie, released in 1977. The second installment of his Berlin Trilogy with Brian Eno (the other releases being Low and Lodger) "Heroes" developed the sound of Low in a more positive direction.[6] Of the three albums, it was the most befitting of the appellation "Berlin", being the only one wholly recorded there. The title track remains one of Bowie's best known, a classic story of two lovers who meet at the Berlin Wall. 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. to record his parts in one day.[7] 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'."[7][8] It was named NME Album of the Year.
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Production and style [link]
Recorded at Hansa Tonstudio in what was then West Berlin, "Heroes" reflected the zeitgeist of the Cold War, symbolised by the divided city. Co-producer Tony Visconti considered it "one of my last great adventures in making albums. The studio was about 500 yards from the wall. Red Guards would look into our control-room window with powerful binoculars."[9] Bowie again paid tribute to his Krautrock influences: the title is a nod to the track "Hero" on the album NEU! '75 by the German band Neu!,[10] while "V-2 Schneider" is inspired by and named after Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider.[11] Earlier in 1977, Kraftwerk had name-checked Bowie on the title track of Trans-Europe Express. The cover photo was inspired by German artist Erich Heckel's Roquairol, as was that of The Idiot, one of Bowie's collaborations with Iggy Pop that was released the same year.[12]
Though "Heroes" included a number of dark and atmospheric instrumentals such as "Sense of Doubt" and "Neuköln", after the melancholy and inward-looking Low it was regarded as a highly passionate and positive artistic statement.[9][11] This was evident not only through ""Heroes"" the song but in the rocking opener "Beauty and the Beast" (released as the second single in January 1978), the raucous "Joe the Lion" and the light-hearted closer "The Secret Life of Arabia". The lyrics for "Joe the Lion", written and recorded at the microphone "in less than an hour" according to Visconti, typified the improvisational nature of the recording.[13]
Release and aftermath [link]
"Heroes" was marketed by RCA with the catch phrase, "There’s Old Wave. There’s New Wave. And there's David Bowie..."[11] It enjoyed a positive critical reception on release in late 1977,[7] Melody Maker and NME both naming it 'Album of the Year'.[8][14] It made No. 3 in the UK and stayed in the charts for 26 weeks, but was less successful in the U.S. where it peaked at #35. The album was released in Germany with the track Heroes/Helden, the lyrics sung partly in German.
A number of the album's tracks were played live at Bowie's concerts the following year, captured on record as Stage (1978). Philip Glass adapted a classical suite, "Heroes" Symphony, based on this album, a companion to his earlier Low Symphony. The title track has been covered by numerous artists, and has been frequently used as an encore by recent incarnations of King Crimson, while The Secret Life of Arabia was sung by Billy Mackenzie in 1982 on the British Electric Foundation LP Music of Quality and Distinction.
Several tracks were used in the film Christiane F. Bowie performed as himself in the film.
Track listing [link]
All lyrics written by David Bowie; all music composed by David Bowie except where noted.
- Side one
- "Beauty and the Beast" – 3:32
- "Joe the Lion" – 3:05
- "Heroes" (Bowie, Brian Eno) – 6:07
- "Sons of the Silent Age" – 3:15
- "Blackout" – 3:50
- Side two
- "V-2 Schneider" – 3:10
- "Sense of Doubt" – 3:57
- "Moss Garden" (Bowie, Eno) – 5:03
- "Neuköln" (Bowie, Eno) – 4:34
- "The Secret Life of Arabia" (Bowie, Eno, Carlos Alomar) – 3:46
Reissues [link]
"Heroes" has been rereleased on CD four times to date. The first CD issue was by RCA in 1984. It was reissued in 1991 by Rykodisc (with two bonus tracks). In the late 90's, Ryko released it on a 20-bit SBM Gold numbered edition. It was released again in 1999 by EMI/Virgin (featuring 24-bit digitally remastered sound and no bonus tracks).
1991 reissue bonus tracks [link]
- "Abdulmajid" (previously unreleased track recorded 1976–79) – 3:40
- "Joe the Lion" (remixed version 1991) – 3:08
Personnel [link]
- David Bowie – vocals, keyboards, guitars, saxophone, koto, background vocals
- Carlos Alomar – rhythm guitar
- Dennis Davis – drums, percussion
- George Murray – bass
- Brian Eno – synthesisers, keyboards, guitar treatments
- Robert Fripp – lead guitar
- Tony Visconti – backing vocals
- Antonia Maass – backing vocals
Technical personnel [link]
- David Bowie – producer
- Tony Visconti – producer, engineer
- Colin Thurston – engineer
Charts [link]
Album [link]
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1977 | UK Albums Chart | 3 |
| 1977 | Billboard Pop Albums | 35 |
| 1977 | Norway | 13 |
| 1977 | Austria | 22 |
| 1977 | Sweden | 13 |
Single [link]
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 1977 | "Heroes" | UK Singles Chart | 24 |
| 1977 | "Heroes" | Austria | 19 |
| 1977 | "Heroes" | Netherlands | 9 |
| 1978 | Beauty and the Beast | UK Singles Chart | 39 |
Notes [link]
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. ""Heroes" Overview". Allmusic. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r2494. Retrieved 18 January 2010.
- ^ Christgau, Robert. "David Bowie". https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=david+bowie. Retrieved 18 January 2010.
- ^ Testa, Bart (12 January 1978). "Heroes". Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/heroes-19780112. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
- ^ "RollingStoneAlbumGuide's music". https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/RollingStoneAlbumGuide/strm_a,ss.rd/bowie. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
- ^ Shaar Murray, Charles (1977). "NME interview". Bowie Golden Years. Archived from the original on 5 October 2009. https://www.bowiegoldenyears.com/heroes.html. Retrieved 20 August 2007. "I'd felt that the use of quotes indicate a dimension of irony about the word "heroes" or about the whole concept of heroism."
- ^ Pegg, Nicholas (2006). The Complete David Bowie (4th ed.). London: Reynolds & Hearn Ltd.. p. 312. ISBN 1-905287-15-1.
- ^ a b c Pegg, Nicholas (2000). The Complete David Bowie. pp. 307–309.
- ^ a b Sandford, Christopher (1996, 1997). Loving the Alien. pp. 182–193.
- ^ a b Buckley, David (1999). Strange Fascination – David Bowie: The Definitive Story. pp. 320–325.
- ^ Snow, Mat (2007). MOJO 60 Years of Bowie, "Making Heroes". p. 69.
- ^ a b c Carr, Roy; Charles Shaar Murray (1981). Bowie: An Illustrated Record. pp. 91–92.
- ^ "UNCUT interview". Bowie Golden Years. 1999. Archived from the original on 5 October 2009. https://www.bowiegoldenyears.com/heroes.html. Retrieved 20 August 2007.
- ^ Pegg, Nicholas (2000). The Complete David Bowie. p. 112.
- ^ Gittens, Ian (2007). "Art Decade", MOJO 60 Years of Bowie. pp. 70–73.
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Héroes (Chilean miniseries)
Héroes (full name: Héroes, la gloria tiene su precio, "Heroes, glory has its price" in Spanish) is a Chilean TV miniseries produced by Canal 13 in 2007.
Héroes has 6 episodes. Each one of them relates the history of one of the principal figures of the Chilean history in the 19th century: Bernardo O'Higgins, José Miguel Carrera, Manuel Rodríguez, Diego Portales, José Manuel Balmaceda and Arturo Prat. The miniseries is one of the most ambitious project of Canal 13 for the commemoration of the bicentenary of the independence of Chile, in 2010.
The miniseries has the support of the Ministry of Education and the Chilean Army.
Episodes
"O'Higgins, vivir para merecer su nombre"
The film is set during 1817 to 1823, on the events of the Patria Nueva, but it has some flashbacks when O'Higgins was a kid (years unrevealed) and when he was learning who his father (Ambrosio O'Higgins) was. Its main plot surrounds the events of his governments, and the changes on his popularity among the people.
Heroes (Shinedown song)
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There is a line in the second verse that goes "You can put a man on trial, but you can't make the guilty pay". This line first came from the title song of the 2009 deluxe re-release of Leave a Whisper. Despite it being released later than "Heroes", it was written before "Heroes" was.
Chart performance
External links
MEGAN
MEGAN ("MEtaGenome ANalyzer") is a computer program that allows optimized analysis of large metagenomic datasets.
Metagenomics is the analysis of the genomic sequences from a usually uncultured environmental sample. A large term goal of most metagenomics is to inventory and measure the extent and the role of microbial biodiversity in the ecosystem due to discoveries that the diversity of microbial organisms and viral agents in the environment is far greater than previously estimated. Tools that allow the investigation of very large data sets from environmental samples using shotgun sequencing techniques in particular, such as MEGAN, are designed to sample and investigate the unknown biodiversity of environmental samples where more precise techniques with smaller, better known samples, cannot be used.
Fragments of DNA from an metagenomics sample, such as ocean waters or soil, are compared against databases of known DNA sequences using BLAST or another sequence comparison tool to assemble the segments into discrete comparable sequences. MEGAN is then used to compare the resulting sequences with gene sequences from GenBank in NCBI. The program was used to investigate the DNA of a mammoth recovered from the Siberian permafrost and Sargasso Sea data set.
Originality
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The concept of originality is culturally contingent. It became an ideal in Western culture starting from the 18th century. In contrast, at the time of Shakespeare it was common to appreciate more the similarity with an admired classical work, and Shakespeare himself avoided "unnecessary invention".
Originality in law
In law, originality has become an important legal concept with respect to intellectual property, where creativity and invention have manifest as copyrightable works. In the patent law of the United States and most other countries, only original inventions are subject to protection. In addition to being original, inventions submitted for a patent must also be useful and nonobvious.
Original (Leftfield song)
"Original" is a song by Leftfield, released as the sixth single under that name. The song was released on 12" and CD on 13 March 1995. It featured Toni Halliday on vocals. The song gave the group their first appearance on Top of the Pops and reached #18 in the UK charts. The beginning of the song is used often on the UK version of Big Brother.
Background
Toni Halliday about "Original":
Track listing
CD
Australian CD
12"
References
Original (catamaran)
Original was a catamaran built by Englishman Mayflower Crisp in Rangoon, Burma in the early 19th century.
