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"Just for One Day (Heroes)" is a house song performed by French DJ David Guetta, featuring vocals from singer David Bowie. The song was released as the lead single from Guetta's compilation album Fuck Me I'm Famous in June 2003, and it was also credited as the fifth single from his debut studio album, Just a Little More Love.
Bowie composed the song with multi-instrumentalist Brian Eno (pictured in 2008), who had the word heroes in mind for the initial chord sequence.. After completing his work co-producing Iggy Pop's Lust for Life (1977) and various promotional events, David Bowie spent a few weeks devising ideas and concepts with multi-instrumentalist Brian Eno for his next studio album. [1]
Just For One Day is a jukebox musical with a book by John O'Farrell. Told through a modern-day perspective, Just For One Day retells the events leading up to Live Aid, the 1985 benefit concert organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise awareness and funds for the famine in Ethiopia. While the primary events leading to the concert are based ...
A docu-jukebox musical that lists 37 song/music credits—from Bowie’s “Heroes” to The Beatles’ “Let It Be” — “Just for One Day” is the behind-the-scenes story of how a personal ...
David Buckley particularly highlights the lyric "We can be heroes, just for one day" as "an acknowledgment that the future didn't belong to him anymore, [but] to everyone". [36] "Sons of the Silent Age" was the only song written before the sessions began [11] and was originally intended to be the album's title track. [40]
Bob Geldof has pushed back against claims he’s a “white saviour” for organising the 1985 Live Aid concert.. Geldof, now 72, and fellow musician Midge Ure organised a major multi-venue ...
Just for One Day may refer to: "Just for One Day (Heroes)", a track by electronic music artist David Guetta "Just for One Day", a track by pop group the Grace from their 2007 album Graceful 4; Just for One Day, an Ethiopian documentary picture; Just for One Day - Run for Free College, a part of the broader Kahit Isang Araw Lang Unity Run series
Bowie's 1975 song "Fame" features contributions from former Beatle John Lennon. [70] On top of covering Lennon's songs over his career, [71] Bowie performed a one-off live cover of "Imagine" on the final date of the 1983 Serious Moonlight Tour to mark the third anniversary of Lennon's death. The performance was uploaded to YouTube in 2016. [72]