David Bowie is dead at 69. Ten years ago, National Review put his song “Heroes” on its list of conservative rock songs, at #21, with this explanation:
A Cold War love song about a man and a woman divided by the Berlin Wall. No moral equivalence here: “I can remember / Standing / By the wall / And the guns / Shot above our heads / And we kissed / As though nothing could fall / And the shame / Was on the other side / Oh we can beat them / For ever and ever.”