“I like Bowie in general, but I really loved Low and “Heroes”. They were just out there somewhere, really atmospheric. It was commercial suicide probably, but great when they came out. It’s only later that you realised that they didn’t really sell that well, especially in America, because at that time alternative music hadn’t happened at all. And the Iggy records around at that time. The Idiot and Lust For Life, were really important for the whole alternative scene. That was an amazingly creative period for Bowie – those four albums all actually came out within a year of each other.”

Martin Gore, Uncut, April 2001