One afternoon in July 1977, David Bowie was looking out of the window of Hansa Studio in Berlin when he noticed a couple kissing near the Berlin Wall.
“I always said it was a couple of lovers by the Wall that prompted the idea for “Heroes”,” Bowie tells Classic Rock. “Actually, it was [Bowie producer] Tony Visconti and his girlfriend. Tony was married at the time, so I couldn’t talk about it. But I can now say that the lovers were Tony and a German girl [Antonia Maass] that he’d met while we were in Berlin.
I think possibly his marriage was in the last few months. And it was very touching because I could see that Tony was very much in love with
