Throughout the 1970s, music enthusiasts were treated to countless song releases that are now considered the classics. Because many consider the ’70s a decade when quite a few popular musical artists put out some of their most notable works, it’s difficult to narrow the era’s very best. However, the publication Collider did just that and released a ranking of the “10 best songs of the 1970s.”
The list, released in July 2026, included ’70s hits like “Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin from 1971, Fleetwood Mac‘s 1977 tune “Dreams,” 1975’s “Born to Run” by Bruce Springsteen, and Derek and the Dominos‘ “Layla” from 1970. According to the publication, “the best song of the 1970s” is David Bowie‘s 1977 hit, “Heroes,” co-written by Brian Eno.
During a 1977 interview, Bowie gave some insight into the song. Bowie noted that the 1977 Heroes album was produced in West Berlin, 12 years before the fall of the Berlin Wall. He said he had been “watching the Wall every day about 12 o’clock midday to about 1 o’clock” and noticed that “a boy and a girl would meet under the wall under the guard under the gun on a park bench.” Bowie surmised that the pair, whom he said would “kiss and cuddle,” “were carrying on some kind of affair,” which they possibly felt was “an act of heroism” due to their meeting location.
However, Louder Sounds reported that in a 2015 interview with Classic Rock, Bowie admitted he’d been inspired to pen the hit after becoming aware of his then-married producer Tony Visconti‘s affair with his German girlfriend Antonia Maass, “that he’d met while [they] were in Berlin.”
According to Louder Sounds, Bowie, who died in 2016 when he was 69, explained how recording in West Berlin impacted his songwriting for his Heroes album in an interview.
“I find that I have to put myself in those situations to produce any reasonably good writing. I’ve still got that same thing about when I get to a country… I have to put myself on a dangerous level, whether emotionally or mentally or physically, and it resolves in things like that: living in Berlin, leading what is quite a spartan life for a person of my means, and in forcing myself to live according to the restrictions of that city,” said Bowie.
In addition, during the 1977 interview, Bowie said that recording in West Berlin, “about 30 or 40 meters away from the Wall,” gave him a “kind of friction that [he] need[ed]” to make the album.
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