Producer Tony Visconti took credit for inspiring the image of the lovers kissing "by the wall", when he and backing vocalist Antonia Maaß embraced in front of Bowie as he looked out of the Hansa Studio window. The quotation marks in the title of the song, a deliberate affectation, were designed to impart an ironic quality on the otherwise highly romantic, even triumphant, words and music. It was one of the early tracks recorded during the album sessions, but remained an instrumental until towards the end of production. The title of the song is a reference to the 1975 track "Hero" by the German band Neu!, whom Bowie and Eno admired. 8 The X Factor 2010 finalists version.In the UK, the final sixteen acts from the seventh series of The X Factor released a cover version of the song on 21 November 2010 which topped the UK singles chart. This version peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1998, as well as number 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart, and number 23 on the Billboard Top 40 Mainstream charts. Among other notable covers, The Wallflowers recorded a version of the song for the soundtrack to the film Godzilla. It was the lead track on Peter Gabriel's 2010 covers album, Scratch My Back. It has been cited as Bowie's second most covered song after " Rebel Rebel". While not a huge hit in the UK or US at the time, "Heroes" has gone on to become one of Bowie's signature songs and is well known today for its appearance in numerous advertisements. A product of Bowie's fertile 'Berlin' period, life in the city was crystallized into a tale of two lovers who come together in the shadow of the 'Wall of Shame' (though here "the shame was on the other side"). Produced by Bowie and Tony Visconti, it was released both as a single and as the title track of the album "Heroes". "Heroes" (styled with double quotation marks) is a song written by David Bowie and Brian Eno in 1977.
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