David Bowie’s Berlin

David Bowies first single after a ten years break is a hommage to Berlin, where he lived from 1976 to 1978.

With black and white pics from Schöneberg, the wall, the ruins of the Reichstag….. I love it, because I adore his albums “Heroes” and “Low”, that where produced in the Hansa-Tonstudios just beside the wall in those days.

It is a clever advertisement trick to market the single over I-Tunes by making it a requirement to buy the whole album in advance for getting this song for free though! Well, the album appears in March and it probably won’t disappoint either

Anyway Musicians like David Bowie, Iggy Pop and later on Nick Cave gave lots of Inputs to trigger Berlin’s trashy charme for getting a hotspot for creatives worldwide.

Where are we now?

Had to get the train

From Potzdamer platz

You never knew that

That I could do that

Just walking the dead

Sitting in the Dschungel

On Nurnberger strasse

A man lost in time near KaDeWe

Just walking the dead

Where are we now?

Where are we now?

The moment you know

You know, you know

Twenty thousand people
Cross Bose Brucke

Fingers are crossed
Just in case
Walking the dead

Where are we now?
Where are we now?
The moment you know
You know, you know
As long as there’s sun
As long as there’s sun
As long as there’s rain
As long as there’s rain
As long as there’s fire
As long as there’s fire
As long as there’s me
As long as there’s you

(David Bowie)