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was no fun to do backing vocals with on the same
mike.’) Guitarist Robert Fripp, with whom Eno had
worked closely since July 1972, would be thrown into
the mix for just two days; forty-eight hours in which he
would fantasise fondly, in a Somerset accent, of
unleashing his ‘sword of union’ on the locals – but he
would never get the chance.
For all of the tiny crew, their time in Berlin during
“Heroes” would result in a series of unforgettable
images: the day that Visconti cropped Iggy and
David’s hair and they wandered around looking like
old men; visits to an antique shop whose proprietor
had known Marlene Dietrich; the frenzied warehouse
parties with local tearaways like artist Martin
Kippenberger; the day Tony Visconti saw a huge
black tank rumbling down the Kurfürstendamm; or
the time Edu Meyer saw a guard on a DDR
machine-gun post surveying them though his
binoculars and attempted to dazzle him with an
Anglepoise lamp, causing Bowie and Visconti to
duck under the control desk, terrified.
For David, these Berlin experiences had ‘a
calming effect’, says Alomar. But even in the act of
creation, his joy was always controlled. In this, he
was a complete contrast to Iggy, who would swing
from euphoria to depression – indeed, just when
“Heroes” was being completed, Iggy succumbed to
a manic-depressive cocaine jag, for which David
and Coco arranged an ‘intervention’, asking Barbara
and Tim Dewitt to whisk him away to Capri. David
was ‘an educated thinker – so that would rescue him
from the depressions’, says Carlos. But David also