Hello, it's been a few years since I've shared anything, but I really liked this cover of Heroes. It's by Karin Ann (whom I hadn't heard before) and dates from June 2025. She features many of Bowie's musicians. A good listen if you've never heard it.
Band: Everett Bradley - percussion, backing vocals Sterling Campbell - drums Gail Ann Dorsey - backing vocals Henry Hey - Hammond organ Gerry Leonard - guitar Donny McCaslin - saxophone, flute Mark Plati - bass, guitar, Mellotron, string arrangement, backing vocals Catherine Russell - backing vocals
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Posted: 5th Aug 2025, 10:54 pm
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jyh1 wrote:
Hello, it's been a few years since I've shared anything, but I really liked this cover of Heroes. It's by Karin Ann (whom I hadn't heard before) and dates from June 2005. She features many of Bowie's musicians. A good listen if you've never heard it.
Band: Everett Bradley - percussion, backing vocals Sterling Campbell - drums Gail Ann Dorsey - backing vocals Henry Hey - Hammond organ Gerry Leonard - guitar Donny McCaslin - saxophone, flute Mark Plati - bass, guitar, Mellotron, string arrangement, backing vocals Catherine Russell - backing vocals
To be totally honest, I don't feel the vocal performance does justice to the musicians backing her. Lacks the passion of say, Blondie. For a real deadpan Heroes, Moby featuring Mindy Jones takes the chocky biscuit.
(Think you meant 2025, Karin was 3 in 2005)
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Posted: 6th Aug 2025, 8:55 am
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What also interests me about this song is the fact that Bowie's musicians are reunited in the same studio. Have there been other occasions since 2016?
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Posted: 9th Aug 2025, 11:45 am
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jyh1 wrote:
What interests me about this song is also the fact that Bowie's musicians get together in the same studio. Have there been other occasions since 2016?
There's the KillerStar album from last year with Earl Slick, Tim Lefebvre, Mike Garson, Mark Plati, Gail Ann Dorsey, Emm Gryner and Donny McCaslin.
Tony Levin's Bringing It Down to the Bass album, also from last year, features Earl Slick, David Torn and Robert Fripp.
Reeves Gabrels played on Earl Slick's Fist Full Of Devils (2021), produced with Mario J. McNulty.
Never Let Me Down 2018 had Tim Lefebvre, David Torn, Reeves Gabrels and Sterling Campbell.
I imagine there are others.
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Posted: 4th Sep 2025, 5:35 pm
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I really like this musical version offered by Karen Ann. When I saw the video with all the musicians, I thought he could very well have been there, and I thought, "But actually, yes, he was." So why not include him? It's something I've heard on other songs before, a mix between the vocals of one version and the music of another.
Of the vocal versions of Heroes, the one that seemed most appropriate to me was the acoustic version performed in 1996 at the Bridge benefit concert. Adjustments had to be made. I didn't change the vocals, but rather the tone of the music, which I adapted to improve it. I added an atmospheric touch to the beginning and end and removed countermelodies that didn't work, but that's it.
