Tony Visconti Remembers Bowie's "Heroes", In Berlin
Legendary Bowie producer revisits Hansa studios, recalls goading border guards in evocative clip.
TONY VISCONTI, PRODUCER of David Bowie albums including Low, The Next Day and The Man Who Sold The World, returned to Berlin earlier this month to revisit the birthplace of “Heroes”, one of The Dame’s, and rock’s, greatest albums. In July 1977 the pair, with musicians including Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Carlos Alomar, Dennis Davis and George Murray convened in Germany’s divided capital to cut future classics Beauty & The Beast, The Secret Life Of Arabia and the epic title track.
Here’s what happened when he popped back at the invite of finance news site Citywire – to commune with the building’s ghosts and the very much alive Hansa sound engineer Eduard Meyer.