[1977]
Testo di/Lyrics by David Bowie
Musica di/Music by David Bowie e Brian Eno
da/from "Heroes"

Bowie ha dichiarato che la canzone gli fu ispirata da una giovane coppia che si incontrava segretamente sotto la torretta di guardia del Muro di Berlino e che lui spiava dalla finestra dello studio di registrazione. Secondo Tony Visconti, il suo produttore, la coppia in questione era lui stesso ed una ragazza con cui Visconti aveva una storia durante la registrazione, la corista Antonia Maass.
(da Velvet Goldmine - il fanclub italiano di David Bowie)

This was inspired by a German couple who met every day under a gun turret on The Berlin Wall. Bowie, who was living in Berlin at the time, watched them and was impressed by their determination to be together.

Il titolo del brano è un riferimento alla traccia Hero presente sull'album Neu! '75 della band tedesca Neu!, che Bowie ed Eno ammiravano.... (continuer)

Music and Lyrics by Rich Pulin

"On august 2nd 1964, an American ship, the USS Maddox, was allegedly attacked, by the North Vietnamese in the gulf of Tonkin.this alleged attack led president Johnson to solicit congress for a declaration of war against the North Vietnamese, which was granted. shortly thereafter, both the first army and first marine divisions (50,000 men) were sent to Viet Nam and put on active duty. Prior to this event, the United States military involvement was restricted to only military advisors. president Kennedy planned on withdrawing those advisors before he was assasinated. Years later, the captain of the uss Maddox, John J. Herrick, confessed that his ship was never attacked and that he had fabricated most of the story to cooperate with the Johnson administrations efforts to accelerate the conflict into all out war. Today's "Tonkin" is "weapons of mass destruction"...and... (continuer)

(1987)

Title track dell'ultimo album del grande Peter Tosh, che quello stesso anno venne ucciso da dei rapinatori nella sua casa di Kingston