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>> DAVID BOWIE :: HEROES
We loved Berlin. David was living there now. He was pleased that he could go out in public unmolested. During Low I gave David and Iggy very close-cropped haircuts (I always packed a pair of barber's scissors to trim my own hair on the road), and the mustache David sported during this period made him hardly recognizable. There were great clubs to go to, fabulous restaurants, and plenty of German friends to share these days of stability and upbeat moods. Heroes was the only album of the triptych that was recorded and mixed entirely at Hansa. Our band was scaled down to just Carlos Alomar, Dennis Davis and George Murray, with Brian Eno on his briefcase synthesizer. One weekend Robert Fripp joined us and overdubbed all the lead guitar -- through Eno's briefcase synthesizer (they had done this before on a previous album). Things were going extremely well, in contrast to the angst and depression that accompanied Low. This is my favorite of the triptych. When David asked to be left alone to write the lyrics to the track later titled "Heroes", I went for a walk by the Berlin Wall with the lady who provided the backing vocals on some of the tracks, Antonia Maass. The studio control room overlooked the Wall and I was later told by David's assistant, Coco, that David saw our flirtatious kiss, which inspired the lines: "I
remember, standing by the Wall. The guns shot about our heads and
we kissed as though nothing could fall."
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