David Bowie "Heroes" RCA Victor PL 12522 1977 UK 1st Press A-3E/B-5E + Inner
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David Bowie ? "Heroes" RCA Victor ?– PL 12522 UK 1st pressing. Vinyl, LP, released in 1977. Issued in a fully laminated sleeve including a lyrics insert with white text on black background.
The vinyl appears to have been very lightly played and is in great condition. The printed insert shows minimal signs of use, as does the sleeve which is in great shape. The spine is intact and completely legible. Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): PL-12522-A-3E W A4AW Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): PL-12522-B-5E A3AAAC W DAVE's RCA.
"Heroes" is David Bowie's twelfth studio album, released on RCA Records on 14 October 1977. The second instalment of his "Berlin Trilogy" recorded with Brian Eno and Tony Visconti, "Heroes" continued the ambient experiments of Bowie's previous album Low (released earlier that year) and featured the contributions of guitarist Robert Fripp. Of the three albums, it was the only one wholly recorded in Berlin. Upon its release, it was met with positive critical reception and was named NME Album of the Year. The title track remains one of Bowie's best known and acclaimed songs.
RCA Records marketed "Heroes" with the slogan "There's Old Wave. There's New Wave. And there's David Bowie ..." It enjoyed a positive critical reception on release in late 1977, Melody Maker and NME both naming it "Album of the Year". It reached No. 3 in the UK and stayed in the charts for 26 weeks, but was less successful in the US where it peaked at No. 35. The album was released in Germany with the title track renamed ""Heroes"/"Helden"" and partly in German. An early instance of the album's enduring influence is John Lennon's comment in 1980 that, when making his album Double Fantasy, his ambition was to "do something as good as "Heroes"." Rolling Stone highlighted Eno's contribution, contending that after Bowie's "auteurist exploitation" of the former on Low, "Heroes" "prompts a much more enthusiastic reading of the collaboration, which here takes the form of a union of Bowie's dramatic instincts and Eno's unshakable sonic serenity".
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