The line about standing by the wall and kissing: Bowie was recording this great song at Hansa Studios in West Berlin. The control room of the studio had a window which faced the Berlin Wall. Bowie and Brian Eno and Tony Visconti (the album's producer) could look out of that window and see the East German Watchtowers with the gun-toting East German security guards looking right at them. Well, while Bowie was working on the lyrics to the song "Heroes" he took a look out of that window and spotted his producer, Tony Visconti, kissing his West German mistress (Visconti was married at the time) right in front of the Berlin Wall. THAT's who Bowie wrote those lines about. For years he told people that it was just some random couple that he'd seen b/c he didn't want to get the married Viconti in trouble. But after Visconti was divorced, Bowie admitted that it was Visconti that he'd seen kissing a woman by the Berlin Wall.
The line about standing by the wall and kissing: Bowie was recording this great song at Hansa Studios in West Berlin. The control room of the studio had a window which faced the Berlin Wall. Bowie and Brian Eno and Tony Visconti (the album's producer) could look out of that window and see the East German Watchtowers with the gun-toting East German security guards looking right at them. Well, while Bowie was working on the lyrics to the song "Heroes" he took a look out of that window and spotted his producer, Tony Visconti, kissing his West German mistress (Visconti was married at the time) right in front of the Berlin Wall. THAT's who Bowie wrote those lines about. For years he told people that it was just some random couple that he'd seen b/c he didn't want to get the married Viconti in trouble. But after Visconti was divorced, Bowie admitted that it was Visconti that he'd seen kissing a woman by the Berlin Wall.