{"id":54702,"date":"2018-01-10T02:17:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T00:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/?p=54702"},"modified":"2018-01-10T02:20:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T00:20:25","slug":"manden-der-gik-bort-fra-himlen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/manden-der-gik-bort-fra-himlen\/","title":{"rendered":"Manden der gik bort fra himlen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R8Yzkq2dUak?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I forg\u00e5rs markerede vi her David Bowie&#8217;s f\u00f8dselsdag, og i dag er det s\u00e5 to \u00e5r siden han gik bort. Alle de m\u00e6rkedage, alle de stjerner; nogle v\u00e6k, andre lyslevende. Chokket omkring Bowie&#8217;s d\u00f8d var jo decideret enormt, da meddelelsen om den kom kun tre dage efter udgivelsen af <em>Blackstar. <\/em>Albummet havde da allerede opn\u00e5et voldsomt meget anmelderros og var blevet k\u00f8bt\/h\u00f8rt af s\u00e5 mange af os, lykkelige som taknemmelige over, at Bowie igen var virksom iblandt os efter det pludselige\u00a0<em>The Next Day<\/em>-comeback tre \u00e5r tidligere. Beskeden om Bowie&#8217;s d\u00f8d kom mandag, tirsdag rejste jeg til Liverpool, hvor hans ansigt var p\u00e5 forsiden af samtlige aviser, og hvor det var umuligt at bev\u00e6ge sig rundt uden konstant at st\u00f8de p\u00e5 hans musik i gader, i butikker og p\u00e5 barer. Det stod meget klart, det var en af de helt store betydningsfulde engelske <em>national treasures<\/em>, de havde mistet derovre. Husker at st\u00e5 i en stor pladebutik, hvor de langede Bowie-vinyler og -CD&#8217;s over disken, som var det varmt br\u00f8d. Hvad det jo netop var, og stadig er. For den tidsl\u00f8se kvalitet er netop kendetegnet ved s\u00e5 mange af mandens store albums. Den meget anderledes udgave af &#8216;Heroes&#8217; her ovenfor findes dog ikke p\u00e5 plade, men er derimod fra Top of the Pops, oktober 1977, hvor Bowie rejste rundt i Europa og lavede promotion for sit nye\u00a0<em>&#8220;Heroes&#8221;<\/em>-album. Her er hvad Bowie-ekspert\/forfatter Roger Griffin skriver om det specielle klip og den s\u00e5 anderledes lyd p\u00e5 hele sangen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the 20th of October 1977, Top of the Pops featured Bowie performing \u201cHeroes\u201c, the last of a series of performances of the new single on television. He\u2019d completed work on the album in Berlin, and as mixing continued in Montreux, Bowie flew to UK in September. He appeared on Marc Bolan\u2019s show and Bing Crosby\u2019s Christmas Special (UK) then in October, L&#8217;altra Domenica and Odeon (Italy), Pop Shop (Netherlands) and Les Rendez-vous du Dimanche (France). Perhaps nonplussed by the variety of setups for those performances, Bowie arranged with \u201cHeroes\u201d producer Tony Visconti to assemble a small group to make a pre-recorded backing tape for Bowie\u2019s first Top of the Pops appearance in five years. The day before the broadcast, Bowie arrived in London and headed straight to Visconti\u2019s Good Earth studios in Soho for the recording session with Visconti, pianist Sean Mayes and guitarist Ricky Gardiner. Mayes\u2019 band Fumble had opened for Bowie and the Spiders back in 1972. \u201cI\u2019d heard nothing from him for five years,\u201d Mayes told David Currie. \u201cThen out of the blue came a phone call to do \u201cHeroes\u201d for Top of the Pops\u201d. Ricky Gardiner had played guitar on Low, Lust For Life and Iggy\u2019s 1977 tour. \u201cI was asked to reproduce Robert Fripp&#8217;s line,\u201d he told Stephen Dalton in 2001. \u201cI did not realise at the time that he had used an E Bow. I did my best using feedback alone. As we went through the song, my amplifier started dying. As the song finished, so did the amp.\u201d Bowie then taped his appearance at the BBC studios, accompanied by the new backing track, before heading back to Soho with Visconti for a drink. The next day, Bowie told the Melody Maker at the Dorchester Hotel that this unprecedented amount of promotion was \u201cto prove my belief in the album. Both Low and \u201cHeroes\u201d have been met with confused reactions. That was to be expected, of course. But I didn&#8217;t promote Low at all, and some people thought my heart wasn&#8217;t in it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_middle\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/manden-der-gik-bort-fra-himlen\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"dark\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/manden-der-gik-bort-fra-himlen\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forg\u00e5rs markerede vi her David Bowie&#8217;s f\u00f8dselsdag, og i dag er det s\u00e5 to \u00e5r siden han gik bort. Alle de m\u00e6rkedage, alle de stjerner; nogle v\u00e6k, andre lyslevende. Chokket omkring Bowie&#8217;s d\u00f8d var jo decideret enormt, da meddelelsen om den kom kun tre dage efter udgivelsen af Blackstar. Albummet havde da allerede opn\u00e5et &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/manden-der-gik-bort-fra-himlen\/\" class=\"more-link\">L\u00e6s videre <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Manden der gik bort fra himlen<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_middle\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/manden-der-gik-bort-fra-himlen\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"dark\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/manden-der-gik-bort-fra-himlen\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-rocknroll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}