Introduction to the ‘Berlin Trilogy’…

Living on a diet consisting of Milk and Peppers, cocaine addict David Bowie [at the time] would soon record his famous “Berlin Trilogy”. This trilogy consists of his three albums ‘Low’ (1977), “Heros” (1977) and finally ‘Lodger’ (1979).

These albums are notable for the David Bowie and Brian Eno collaborations as well as the German sound of the 70′s which played a large influence of the outcome of these three records. The trilogy was produced by Tony Visconti [but often wrongly credited to Eno] who before hand helped produce Bowie’s ‘The Man Who Sold The World”. Also during the trilogy Bowie managed to sing with Bing Crosby and also produce Iggy Pops first two solo records when not high [Second thoughts i doubt it they weren't high when recording them]. Often Iggy Pop’s record ‘The Idoit’ gets being marked as the unofficial beginning of the trilogy given that it was the first of the work seen by Bowie during this time and even has the same influence of the german electronic movement which was happening.

So stay tuned as i will be discussing the best trilogy  [even before the original Star Wars trilogy] there is step by step.

Video above is Bowie playing ‘Station To Station’ a song which was before the Berlin Trilogy from the album of the same title. Im really digging Adrian Belew’s guitar intro.

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~ by Scott Willis on April 19, 2009.