Neuköln

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"Neuköln" is an instrumental piece written by David Bowie in 1977 for the album "Heroes". It was the last of three consecutive instrumentals on Side Two of the original vinyl album, following "Sense of Doubt" and "Moss Garden".

Neukölln (spelt with two 'l's) is a section of Berlin where Bowie lived for a time in 1977. The music has been interpreted as reflecting in part the rootlessness of the Turkish immigrants who made up a large proportion of the area's population. NME journalists Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray described "Neuköln" as "a mood piece: the Cold War viewed through a bubble of blood or Harry Lime's last thoughts as he dies in the sewer in The Third Man.[1] The final section features Bowie's plaintive saxophone "booming out across a harbour of solitude, as if lost in fog".[2]

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  1. ^ Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray (1981). Bowie: An Illustrated Record: p.92
  2. ^ David Buckley (1999). Strange Fascination - David Bowie: The Definitive Story: p.325
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