Heroes made it to #3 on the UK charts but only hit #35 in the US. However it was almost universally hailed by music critics, named as album of the year by several music publications. Bowie’s collaboration on Heroes with both Brian Eno (synths) and Robert Fripp (guitar) served to make Heroes both a rock album and an art-pop experiment (a great example of this productive tension is the track “Blackout” which is ambient and dissonant yet funky with get-down beats and pop-hook guitars). Bowie released two singles, the title track “Heroes” which charted at #24 in the UK in ‘77 but did not chart in the US until after Bowie’s death in 2016 when it went to #11, and “Beauty and the Beast,” which hit #39 in the UK in early ‘78.

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