Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo is a soundtrack album by David Bowie

David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

, released on LP

LP album

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 in 1981 by RCA Victor (and re-issued on CD by EMI

EMI

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 in 2001), for the movie about Christiane F.

Christiane F.

Christiane F. is a former heroin addict famous for her contribution to the autobiographical book , and the film based on the book, which describes her struggle with various forms of drug addiction during her teens.-Early life:Christiane was born in Hamburg, but her family moved to West Berlin when...

 The German title of the film, Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, means "We children of Zoo Station

Berlin Zoologischer Garten railway station

Berlin Zoologischer Garten station was the central transport facility in West Berlin during the division of the city, and thereafter for the western central area of Berlin until opening of the new Berlin Central Station on 28 May 2006...

", referring to the railway station in Berlin

Berlin

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, Germany

Germany

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.

Track listing

All lyrics written by David Bowie

David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

 (with German lyrics by Maas on Track 3); all music composed by David Bowie except where noted.

1. "V-2 Schneider
   V-2 Schneider
   "V-2 Schneider" is a largely instrumental piece written by David Bowie in 1977 for the album "Heroes". It was a tribute to Florian Schneider, co-founder of the band Kraftwerk, whom Bowie acknowledged as a significant influence at the time. The title also referenced the V-2 rocket.The only words...
   
   " (Instrumental) – 3:09
2. "TVC 15
   TVC 15
   "TVC 15" is a song written and recorded by David Bowie and released in 1976.The track was inspired by an episode in which Iggy Pop, during a drug-fuelled period at Bowie’s LA home, hallucinated and believed the television set was swallowing his girlfriend. Bowie developed a story of a holographic...
   
   " – 3:29
3. "Heroes/Helden" (Bowie, Brian Eno
   Brian Eno
   Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...
   
   ) – 6:01
4. "Boys Keep Swinging
   Boys Keep Swinging
   "Boys Keep Swinging" is a song by English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was released as a single from the album Lodger on 27 April 1979.-Recording and release:...
   
   " (Bowie, Eno) – 3:16
5. "Sense of Doubt
   Sense of Doubt
   "Sense of Doubt" is an instrumental piece written by David Bowie in 1977 for the album "Heroes". It was the first of three instrumentals on Side Two of the original vinyl album that segued into one another, preceding "Moss Garden" and "Neuköln"....
   
   " (Instrumental) – 3:56
6. "Station to Station
   Station to Station (song)
   "Station to Station" is a song written by David Bowie in 1975 and released in 1976. It is the title track and opener for the album of the same name. The song is Bowie's longest studio recording, clocking in just above 10 minutes...
   
   " (live) – 8:42
7. "Look Back in Anger
   Look Back in Anger (song)
   "Look Back in Anger" is a song written by David Bowie and Brian Eno for the album Lodger . It concerns "a tatty 'Angel Of Death'", and features a guitar solo by Carlos Alomar....
   
   " (Bowie, Eno) – 3:06
8. "Stay
   Stay (David Bowie song)
   "Stay" is a song written by David Bowie for the 1976 album Station to Station.In July 1976 it was released as a single by RCA in the US. The length of the album version of "Stay" is 6:15....
   
   " – 3:20
9. "Warszawa
   Warszawa (song)
   "Warszawa" is a mostly instrumental song by David Bowie, co-written with Brian Eno and originally released in 1977 on the album Low.The arrangement is meant to evoke the desolation of Warsaw at the time of Bowie's visit in 1973...
   
   " (Instrumental) (Bowie, Eno) – 6:18

• Tracks 1, 3 and 5 taken from the 1977 album "Heroes"
• Tracks 2 and 8 taken from the 1976 album Station to Station
  Station to Station
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• Tracks 4 and 7 taken from the 1979 album Lodger
  Lodger (album)
  Lodger is an album by British singer-songwriter David Bowie, released in 1979. The last of the 'Berlin Trilogy' recorded in collaboration with Brian Eno , it was more accessible than its immediate predecessors Low and "Heroes", having no instrumentals and being somewhat lighter and more pop-oriented...
  
  
• Track 6 taken from the 1978 album Stage
• Track 9 taken from 1977 album Low

Versions of songs that differ from original album versions

• "TVC 15": Single Edit Version.
• "Stay": US Single Version

Historical note

Although the entire soundtrack is made up of songs from Bowie's Berlin years (1977-1979), the story of Christiane F. plays before that time; e.g. Christiane F. visited the 1976 show of the Station to Station tour in Berlin which was opened by the song Station to Station. The live version included in the film and soundtrack is from the 1978 Stage tour.

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1982	Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Pop Albums	135