# Talk:"Heroes" (album)

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### Followup discussion
The album Damn., with a dot (and several other such cases, e.g. Gangsta., at Gangsta (manga)) are just marketing stylization. The quotation marks in "Heroes" and the song "'Heroes'" whence the album gets its name are semantically meaningful (like "!" or "?" in most titles of works that include one), in this case indicating irony/sarcasm. Don't confuse punctuation being present with whether the punctuation is encyclopedically meaningful. If I make an album and call it >>Chicken<< you can expect the title here, were it notable, to be Chicken (SMcCandlish album). If a song on it is called "Wanna Play 'Chicken'?" the interior quotation marks and the question mark would be retained as meaningful.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  21:27, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

I heard Brian Eno in an interview the other day say that the inspiration for the song came from an elderly couple of alcoholics, certainly the lyrics would suggest that ?
When Tony walked back into Hansa after the kiss, Bowie said, you’re in the song... Tony was slightly alarmed as he was married at the time.. Pdrm3r (talk) 21:40, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Got a link for the interview? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:47, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

In my edit summary for this edit, there's a redlink: I intended the link to point to the move discussion concerning the quotation marks, "Requested move 11 January 2018", which at the time of writing is still here on this talk page. Just so you know. Nortonius (talk) 17:58, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
Talk:"Heroes" (David Bowie album)/GA1

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Did Bowie plan to name the album "Sons of the Silent Ages" or just like the song "Sons of the Silent Age" on the LP (without 's')? Felixitas (talk) 14:53, 30 January 2025 (UTC)