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“I asked David, ‘Any suggestions?’ He said, ‘Think Ritchie Blackmore.’ I didn’t expect that”: When David Bowie asked Robert Fripp to play like a Deep Purple legend

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David Bowie (left) and Robert Fripp perform onstage. A towering love story set in the face of the division of Berlin during the Cold War, Heroes is one of David Bowie's greatest achievements – an epic that will long outlive him (and has already). It wouldn't be half of what it is, though, without Robert Fripp. It was Fripp that contributed the song's defining instrumental element, a whirring guitar part that adds a touch of the weird and surreal as it coils around Bowie's heroic vocal performance.
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“I asked David, ‘Any suggestions?’ He said, ‘Think Ritchie Blackmore.’ I didn’t expect that”: When David Bowie asked Robert Fripp to play like a Deep Purple legend

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By Jackson Maxwell Verified
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1980: the 21 greatest albums from the year rock music shattered into a thousand pieces As the curtain went up on the 1980s, rock music’s sands were shifting. Punk, dragged down by its limitations, was no longer a force. New wave and …
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“Back then, he didn't know anything about electric guitar… It was like, ‘Don't worry Bob, I'll adjust the amp for you, it sounds great, don't worry’”: Robbie Robertson on Bob Dylan's rocky electric transition

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Bob Dylan (left) and Robbie Robertson, onstage at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 24, 1966. When Bob Dylan “went electric” – fully abandoning his image as a Woody Guthrie acolyte authoring stately acoustic protest songs – a lot of fans didn't want to join the ride. Case in point, the above comparison to history's most famous backstabber, shouted at Dylan during a now-legendary gig at the Manchester Free Trade Hall on May 17, 1966.
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