And actually, he told me that some of the lyrics from his song ‘Heroes’ were actually inspired by this book.' 'And this book is really special because, funny enough, way before David and I met, this was one of his favorite books. 'This is a very fantastical journey between a girl - and you won’t believe it, but a Somali girl - and a dolphin,' she said. Iman reiterated the story in a 2021 interview with Vogue. 'I thought it a magical and beautiful love story and in part it had inspired my song ‘Heroes,''he said. Cp from VirginiaFrom Showbiz Cheatsheets: "According to Iman in foreword to her 2001 memoir 'I Am Iman,' Bowie revealed that the song was inspired by the 1956 book 'A Grave For a Dolphin' by Alberto Denti di Pirajno.See the article "The story behind the song: Heroes by David Bowie," by Bill DeMain. Cp from VirginiaAnd another account of how the song came to be is on the website Louder ().But something like that doesn't come along very often, and when it does, you kind of think, 'Well, if I never do anything again, it won't matter.'" They happen so rarely at that kind of magnitude. Things like that really give you a sense of what performance can do. So now I was face-to-face with the people I had been singing it to all those years ago. This time, what was so fantastic is that the audience – it was the Max Schmeling Hall, which holds about 10-15,000 – half the audience had been in East Berlin that time way before. We did it in Berlin last year as well – 'Heroes' – and there's no other city I can do that song in now that comes close to how it's received. That's the town where it was written, and that's the particular situation that it was written about. However well we do it these days, it's almost like walking through it compared to that night, because it meant so much more. When we did 'Heroes' it really felt anthemic, almost like a prayer. I'd never done anything like that in my life, and I guess I never will again. And we would hear them cheering and singing along from the other side. So it was like a double concert where the wall was the division. And there were thousands on the other side that had come close to the wall. We kind of heard that a few of the East Berliners might actually get the chance to hear the thing, but we didn't realize in what numbers they would.
They'd backed up the stage to the wall itself so that the wall was acting as our backdrop. It was one of the most emotional performances I've ever done. Regarding the later performance, Bowie said in his Performing Songwriter interview: "I'll never forget that. I think possibly the marriage was in the last few months, and it was very touching because I could see that Tony was very much in love with this girl, and it was that relationship which sort of motivated the song."īowie played this at Live Aid from Wembley Stadium, England in 1985, and also at the Berlin Wall in 1987. I did ask his permission if I could say that. But I can now say that the lovers were Tony and a German girl that he'd met whilst we were in Berlin. And I could never say who it was (laughs).
Actually, it was Tony Visconti and his girlfriend. I always said it was a couple of lovers by the Berlin Wall that prompted the idea. Bowie didn't mention Visconti's role in inspiring this song until 2003, when he told Performing Songwriter magazine: "I'm allowed to talk about it now. Bowie, who was living in Berlin at the time, was inspired by an affair between his producer Tony Visconti and backup singer Antonia Maass, who would kiss "by the wall" in front of Bowie as he looked out of the Hansa Studio window. This song tells the story of a German couple who are so determined to be together that they meet every day under a gun turret on The Berlin Wall.
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