{"id":30418,"date":"2024-09-23T18:02:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T18:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-23-1977-david-bowie-released-heroes\/"},"modified":"2024-09-23T18:02:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T18:02:26","slug":"on-this-day-sept-23-1977-david-bowie-released-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-23-1977-david-bowie-released-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Sept. 23, 1977: David Bowie released \u201cHeroes\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-23\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Sept. 23, 1977 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>David Bowie<\/strong> released the single \u201cHeroes,\u201d the title track from his 12th studio album.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The song, written by Bowie and <strong>Brian Eno<\/strong>, failed to chart\u00a0on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Hot 100 and peaked at #24 in the U.K when it was originally released. After Bowie\u2019s 2016 death the song reentered the chart in the U.K., peaking at #12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Although the song\u00a0wasn\u2019t initially a hit, \u201cHeroes\u201d became a fan favorite and was a staple throughout Bowie\u2019s touring career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It is also the late rocker\u2019s second-most covered tune behind \u201cRebel Rebel,\u201d with The<strong> Wallflowers<\/strong>\u2019 1998 version becoming a radio hit,\u00a0peaking at #10 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Modern Rock Tracks chart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Sept. 23, 1977 &#8230; David Bowie released the single \u201cHeroes,\u201d the title track from his 12th studio album.\u00a0 The song, written by Bowie and Brian Eno, failed to chart\u00a0on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at #24 in the U.K when it was originally released. After Bowie\u2019s<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-23-1977-david-bowie-released-heroes\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}