Duff McKagan has released a cover of the David Bowie classic “Heroes,” as well as a new original glam-rock song titled “True to the Death Rock N’ Roll Ballad.” The two new tracks come as the Guns N’ Roses bassist gets set to embark on his fall “Lighthouse Tour ’24.”
The veteran rocker’s UK/European leg kicks off on Monday (September 30th) in Dublin, Ireland, and runs through October 22nd in Stockholm, Sweden, with tickets available here. A US outing will launch November 4th in Boston, and wrap up November 20th in Seattle (pick up ticket here).
“We thought it was good idea to put out a couple of fresh songs right here on the eve of the Lighthouse tour,” said McKagan in a press release. “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.”
He added, “To try and compliment this era, I chose a sort of ’70s glam-rock song that I wrote some time 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!”
Check out the official visualizer for Duff McKagan’s cover of “Heroes,” and listen to “True to the Death Rock N’ Roll Ballad” in the players below.