In his song "Heroes," David Bowie uses the image of two lovers on either side of the Berlin Wall as a metaphor for separation, loss and dreams of freedom. The song is embraced today by Germans as ...

Both David Bowie and Iggy Pop struck upon their ultimate masterpieces during the late 1970s, and both took unlikely inspiration from the work of Erich Heckel.

In the summer of 1977, David Bowie was living in Berlin and working on a new album. One evening, he saw his producer Tony Visconti sitting on a bench near the Berlin Wall with a young German woman.

This summer marks 46 years since Heroes – aka the greatest song ever written – was recorded at the mighty Hansa Studios in Berlin. During July and August 1977 the Bowie and Brian Eno song Heroes was ...