BBC Arts : Breaking down David Bowie's 'Heroes

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  1. floond

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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03g18sx?ns_mchannel=social&#38
    Breaking down David Bowie's 'Heroes' - Track-by-track
    Producer Tony Visconti uses the original master tapes from sessions at Hansa Studio in Berlin to get to the heart of the title track from 'Heroes', one of David Bowie’s best-loved songs.
    We hear the song built up by individual contributions, including those from guitarist Robert Fripp, Brian Eno's 'synthesiser in a briefcase' and of course David Bowie's powerful, harshly emotional vocal.
    This film with Tony Visconti is an extended version of that on the BBC Four programme Music Moguls: Melody Makers. It closes with the iconic music video for 'Heroes', directed in 1977 by Stanley Dorfman.


    20 January 2016
    Duration: 21 minutes
     
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  3. Zenarcist

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    Fripp/Eno win first prize :wink:


    I would love to see a breakdown of the classic Bowie backing vocal sound on tracks such as this ...





    I'm guessing Visconti had a hand in it, as he was involved with both Bowie and Bolan





    PS RIP Dale Griffin (Mott drummer)
     
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  4. Yuri

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    Saw the short version on Music Moguls last night, didn't know about this extended version so thanks, looking forward to watching it.
     
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    I want to save this video to my HD (in a few days the BBC will delete it),so far no luck to extract the SWF.Anybody can do this? Thanks !!!
     
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    thank you so much for pointing this out. what an exciting time for rock music that was. bowie was a pioneer.
     
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