10 Weirdest David Bowie Songs

The second album in the Berlin trilogy also has its fair share of odd moments, most notably the instrumental Sense Of Doubt, which was created by extensively utilising Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies cards. The surreal environment of the studio for Heroes - Hansa Studios in Germany - was located just 150 metres from the Berlin Wall, which contributed heavily to the tense and strange mood of many of the songs on the album.

Sense Of Doubt is built largely around a descending four note piano sequence, repeated over and over again throughout the four-minute runtime with little deviation. The production of the piece in the studio was likened to a card game by Eno. After each separate part was recorded, Bowie and Eno would take turns and pick up a card, follow it as closely as possible when recording the next instrument, then repeat the process again until the instrumental was deemed complete.

Sense of Doubt was performed live during David's Isolar 2 tour in 1978, but wasn't always met with the most warm reception by often bemused fans. When mixing the live album from the tour, 1978's Stage, producer Tony Visconti vividly remembers having to edit out the boos from certain audience members at the start of the piece.