<P> Inspired by the sight of Bowie's producer / engineer Tony Visconti embracing one of Bowie's backing vocalists by the Berlin Wall, the song tells the story of two lovers, one from East and one from West Berlin . Bowie's performance of "Heroes" on June 6, 1987 at the German Reichstag in West Berlin was considered a catalyst to the eventual fall of the Berlin Wall . Following Bowie's death in January 2016, the German government thanked Bowie for "helping to bring down the Wall", adding "you are now among Heroes". </P> <P> "' Heroes"' has received numerous accolades since its release, as seen with its inclusion on lists ranking the' greatest songs of all time' compiled by the music publications; Rolling Stone named the song the 46th greatest ever, and NME named it the 15th greatest . Bowie scholar David Buckley has written that "Heroes" "is perhaps pop's definitive statement of the potential triumph of the human spirit over adversity". </P> <P> The title of the song is a reference to the 1975 track "Hero" by German krautrock band Neu!, whom Bowie and Eno admired . It was one of the early tracks recorded during the album sessions, but remained an instrumental until towards the end of production . The quotation marks in the title of the song, a deliberate affectation, were designed to impart an ironic quality on the otherwise highly romantic, even triumphant, words and music . Producer Tony Visconti took credit for inspiring the image of the lovers kissing "by the wall", when he and backing vocalist Antonia Maass (Maaß) embraced in front of Bowie as he looked out of the Hansa Studio window . Bowie's habit in the period following the song's release was to say that the protagonists were based on an anonymous young couple but Visconti, who was married to Mary Hopkin at the time, contends that Bowie was protecting him and his affair with Maass . Bowie confirmed this in 2003 . </P> <P> The music, co-written by Bowie and Eno, has been likened to a Wall of Sound production, an undulating juggernaut of guitars, percussion and synthesizers . Eno has said that musically the piece always "sounded grand and heroic" and that he had "that very word--heroes--in my mind" even before Bowie wrote the lyrics . The basic backing track on the recording consists of a conventional arrangement of piano, bass guitar, rhythm guitar and drums . However the remaining instrumental additions are highly distinctive . These largely consist of synthesizer parts by Eno using an EMS VCS3 to produce detuned low - frequency drones, with the beat frequencies from the three oscillators producing a juddering effect . In addition, King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp generated an unusual sustained sound by allowing his guitar to feed back and sitting at different positions in the room to alter the pitch of the feedback (pitched feedback). Tony Visconti mixed out Dennis Davis' kick drum, stating that the track "seemed to plod" with it but had a more energetic feel without it . </P>

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