“THE REASON I STARTED PLAYING MUSIC? DAVID BOWIE"
Ray was inspired by a number of influences, but yes, Bowie was the man. As he confessed to talkRADIO back in May 2016: "I was influenced mostly by music of the 70s, even though I was a teenager of the 80s. I liked Pink Floyd and The Pistols. But David Bowie was who I loved as a teenager, he was the reason I started playing music.”
So, performed by Ray alone at Radio Trojka in Warsaw on May 18th 2003, here we have a beautiful and amazing live solo acoustic version of ‘Heroes’ the title track from the legendary 1977 Bowie’s masterpiece. A song 'The Thin White Duke' co-wrote with Brian Eno during the famous “Berlin period”, inspired by the sight of Bowie's producer-engineer Tony Visconti embracing his lover by the Berlin Wall. ‘Heroes’ tells the story of two lovers, one from East and one from West Berlin, and the quotation marks in the title were designed to impart an ironic quality on the otherwise romantic or triumphant words and music.
As Ray confessed in May 2003, ‘Heroes’ matters a lot to him not only musically, but also from a personal point of view: “it’s a lesson I learned to kind of stay in the moment, and really enjoy each day rather than worrying about what’s happening in three weeks or tomorrow or whatever. And just believing in yourself: you’re special and important than everybody else”.
‘Heroes’ acoustic cover taken from 2003 Ray Wilson’s live album "An Audience and Ray Wilson live solo album"
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Post and video production: Luca Blukaos Biondi
4 май 2021
