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Tony Visconti

September 2024

  • An image from the cover shoot for David Bowie’s album Heroes.

    Bowie song Heroes inspired by star’s day with girlfriend, new documentary says

    BBC Radio 4’s Bowie in Berlin tells how Clare Shenstone shared ‘extraordinary day’ reflected in song’s lyrics

April 2021

  • Vitality and spontaneity … Osibisa in the early 1970s.

    ‘Our ethos was happy music and good vibes’: genre-busting Black British band Osibisa

    Jimi Hendrix watched them rehearse, Stevie Wonder joined them on drums, and Fela Kuti partied with them in Lagos. Osibisa, whose African sunshine sound captivated the planet, have now returned

January 2017

  • Tony Visconti gives a speech at SXSW Music 2016 last March in Austin, Texas.

    Tony Visconti on David Bowie: 'We are fortunate to have lived in the same time as him'

    The musician and producer recalls ‘worst next day’ when he learned of David Bowie’s death – while on tour with his tribute band – and his pride in their work together
  • Bowie Blackstar video still

    David Bowie: What have we learned since his death?

    From clues to his cancer hidden in Blackstar’s artwork to his mortal fear of Tina Turner … some astounding new Bowie facts have come to light over the last year
  • David Bowie sitting on a bed with an old guitar

    A brush with greatness
    The day I played the Mellotron for David Bowie

    It’s 1969, a young Rick Wakeman has mastered the weird electonic keyboard, and a rising star wants him to play on a track called Space Oddity

November 2016

  • Previously unheard vocals by David Bowie recorded for Lazarus, his last release before his death, will be broadcast in the new BBC film.

    David Bowie’s final years to be explored in BBC documentary

    David Bowie: The Last Five Years to focus on final two albums and musical Lazarus, and will air on first anniversary of his death

September 2016

  • David Bowie on stage at the Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles in October 1974.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    David Bowie: Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976) review – an artist on the edge

    Bowie performed an extraordinary stylistic pivot between Diamond Dogs and Young Americans, and made it look easy – but as this new box set shows, it was a more convoluted and problematic shift than it appeared at the time

July 2016

  • David Bowie.

    David Bowie box set Who Can I Be Now? – details of unreleased material, b-sides and more

    Experimental funk and soul recordings from the star’s ‘American phase’, including album The Gouster, will join remastered albums, single edits and b-sides
  • This is correct way around ( previously flipped)<br>English singer, musician and actor David Bowie with dyed red hair and a mustard yellow suit, circa 1974. (Photo by Terry O’Neill/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    Unreleased David Bowie album to come out in new box set

    The Gouster, which evolved into Young Americans, will be form part of the box set Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976)
  • Various<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Barry Schultz/Sunshine/REX/Shutterstock (2826018m) David Bowie at Hilversum TV studios for 'TOP POP' - Bowie played-back (several times) Various

    The Age of Bowie: How David Bowie Made a World of Difference by Paul Morley – review

    A thrilling, unconventional hymn to the chameleon who reshaped music time and again

June 2016

  • Offended … Adele.

    Tony Visconti apologises to Adele after suggesting her voice is manipulated

    Bowie’s longtime producer says his comments about the singer’s voice were ‘taken the wrong way’

April 2016

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  • Cyndi Lauper

    The Music of David Bowie review – tears shed as stars pay tribute to starman

    From The Flaming Lips to Cat Power to Pixies to Debbie Harry, the lineup at the heartfelt tribute night was as wide-ranging and celebrated as Bowie’s career
  • Michael Stipe<br>Singer Michael Stipe performs at The Music of David Bowie tribute concert at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, March, 31, 2016, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

    'God bless David Bowie': first tribute concert brings tearful singalong

    Michael Stipe, the Flaming Lips and Deborah Harry among stars at Carnegie Hall in New York with Space Oddity and Ashes to Ashes on the playlist

March 2016

  • SXSW Music 2016 - Day 3<br>AUSTIN, TX - MARCH 17: Tony Visconti delivers the keynote speech at SXSW Music 2016 on March 17, 2016 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Thomas M Jackson/Redferns)

    SXSW Music: Tony Visconti paints bleak portrait of music business

    David Bowie’s producer says record sales are declining because today’s pop is not adventurous enough, and the music industry needs to do more to nurture artists

January 2016

  • David Bowie

    David Bowie tops Aria chart and beats Michael Jackson's albums record

    Seventeen of David Bowie’s albums chart in Australian Recording Industry Association top 100 as retailers report dramatic increase in sales
  • David Bowie talking to the music director Johan Renck on the set for the music video Blackstar.

    David Bowie's last days: an 18-month burst of creativity

    Over the last months of his life, the singer was able to shake off late career doldrums and, despite his illness, find a final creative surge

    • David Bowie's Blackstar storms to top of album chart

    • Tony Visconti: David Bowie's death was 'just about the worst day of my life'

    • Holy Holy review – ex-Spider from Mars sees David Bowie off in style

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