The double-sided single pairs a distinctive cover of Bowie’s classic with a new glam rock original song
Duff McKagan has announced the premiere of two new songs, “Heroes” and “True to the Death Rock N Roll Ballad,” both available now at all DSPs and streaming services. A distinctive cover of David Bowie’s timeless classic, the double-sided single – which pairs “Heroes” with a new Duff original – heralds next week’s kickoff of McKagan’s eagerly awaited Lighthouse Tour ‘24, a world headline run getting underway September 30th at Dublin, Ireland’s The Academy. US dates begin November 4th at Boston’s Paradise Rock Club.
“We thought it was a good idea to put out a couple of fresh songs right here on the eve of the Lighthouse tour,” says McKagan. “Choosing David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ seemed to be a natural subject matter for me (I am of course, a massive history nerd)…star-crossed lovers in the shadow of the mid-70s cold-war era Berlin Wall. To try and complement this era, I chose a sort of 70’s glam-rock song that I wrote sometime last year, ‘True to the Death Rock n Roll Ballad,’ another lyric where love and lust and time are the central figures. We hope you dig this ‘single’ and thank you all for just being you!”
Lighthouse Tour ’24 will see Duff McKagan and his band traveling Europe and the United Kingdom, making stops in Scotland, England, the Netherlands, Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, France, and Sweden through late October. Support on all European and UK dates comes from Cardiff, Wales’s James, and the Cold Gun. US dates will follow, including intimate shows in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver and others.
McKagan has also announced a Black Friday Record Store Day exclusive RSD vinyl LP release of his searing performance at Easy Street Records in Seattle, WA on December 8, 2023. The set contains tracks from McKagan’s critically acclaimed recent album Lighthouse and This is the Song EP.
