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This week on 1001 Songs That Make You Want To Die, we take on “Heroes” — a song that somehow manages to be genuinely beautiful, historically important, and still capable of making us argue for way too long.
We dig into David Bowie in his Berlin era, the real story behind the kiss by the Wall, why this song sounds enormous even when it’s barely moving, and how Heroes became shorthand for triumph, hope, and stadium-sized emotion, whether it earned it or not.
Along the way, we talk Cold War romance, production tricks that shouldn’t work but absolutely do, Bowie mythology versus reality, and whether repeated cultural overuse can turn even a great song into something… complicated.
It’s respectful. It’s argumentative. And yes, someone still has to ask the question: could you beat David Bowie in a fight?
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