“Heroes” was originally released as a single on the 23rd of September 1977, and was then subsequently a track on David Bowie’s “Heroes” album, released a few weeks later, on the 14th of October.
The Top of the Pops performance was recorded exactly forty years ago today, on the 19th of October 1977.
It is a particularly interesting performance because it was sung live, in front of an audience in the Top of the Pops studio, and over a new backing track, recorded with a one-off band the previous day.
Roger Griffin, the author of the excellent book, “David Bowie The Golden Years”, and creator of the website Bowie Golden Years has kindly written something exclusively for the notes about this video, about that time in October ’77, when Bowie was in London for the Top of the Pops performance:
On the 20th of October 1977, Top of the Pops featured Bowie performing “Heroes“, the last of a series of performances of the new single on television. He’d com
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