"Heroes" - The Album

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Songs (Time)

All songs written by David Bowie except "Heroes", lyrics by Bowie, music by Bowie-Eno, Moss Garden, Neuköln written by Bowie-Eno, and The Secret Life Of Arabia lyrics by Bowie, music by Bowie-Eno-Alomar.

1. Beauty And The Beast (3:32)
2. Joe The Lion (3:05)
3. "Heroes" (6:07)
4. Sons Of The Silent Age (3:15)
5. Blackout (3:50)
6. V-2 Schneider (3:10)
7. Sense Of Doubt (3:57)
8. Moss Garden (5:03)
9. Neuköln (4:34)
10. The Secret Life Of Arabia (3:46)

    Bonus tracks on RykoDisc release

11. Abdulmajid (3:40) Previously unreleased track recorded 1976-79
12. Joe The Lion (5:18) Remixed version, 1991

Release details

Original release by RCA, October 14 1977

Rerelease on CD by RykoDisc 1991 with bonus tracks

Producer

David Bowie and Tony Visconti

Musicians

David Bowie: vocals, keyboards, guitars, saxophone, koto

Carlos Alomar: rhythm guitar

Dennis Davis: percussion

George Murray: electric bass

Brian Eno: synthesizers, keyboards, guitar treatments

Robert Fripp: lead guitar

David Bowie, Tony Visconti, Antonia Maass: background vocals

Bonus track details

• Abdulmajid

  Musicians

  David Bowie, Brian Eno: instruments

• Joe The Lion

  Musicians

  As for original version

Trivia

• The German release featured Heroes/Helden in place of just "Heroes". This version later appeared on the album Rare. (Information courtesy of Punk Floyd).
• Philip Glass reworked some of the songs from "Heroes" in his Heroes Symphony.
• Chart Performance:

  Country	Date	Peak #	# of weeks
  UK	October 29, 1977	3	18
  US	?	35	19
  UK	June 11, 1983	75	8

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