Tony Visconti
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Sep 14, 2026
RobHOST
That is the greatest fire a man can have.
RobHOST
So these antics lead them to a new deal with Mercury Records, and their first single with Mercury gets produced by Tony Visconti.
RobHOST
whose credits include Bowie, T-Rex, Thin Lizzy, Gentle Giant, and many more.
RobHOST
Eno.
AaronHOST
This song was recorded on September 1st, 1967.
AaronHOST
It was the first, well, part of the first recording session that Bowie had with Tony Visconti, who we've discussed a few times now on the podcast.
AaronHOST
Other important musicians on this track are important session musician Big Jim Sullivan, who is, plays guitars along with, uh, John McLaughlin.
AaronHOST
Uh, drums are done, depending on who you read, either Andy White or Alan White.
AaronHOST
I Love You, the first, uh, Beatles single, where George Martin felt that Ringo wasn't, uh, good enough, so he kept him [laughs] aside and had him replaced by Andy White.
AaronHOST
Or if it is Alan White, Alan White was the, um, drummer in the Plastic Ono Band, so he plays on Plastic Ono Band and, uh, Imagine as well.
AaronHOST
Backing vocals are done by Sigrid Visconti, who was Tony Visconti's first wife.
AaronHOST
This song was, was composed in, in the summer of 1967 and really has that kind of, you know, uh, Summer of Love fascination with, uh, Eastern belief systems.
Ben MontgomeryHOST
So here's, here's a partial list.
Ben MontgomeryHOST
So Brian Eno recorded heroes with Tony Visconti there in 1997, or excuse me, 1977.
Ben MontgomeryHOST
Can't read my own notes here.
Ben MontgomeryHOST
Bowie had said he, he felt totally anonymous in Berlin and, And I think that that's probably what U2 was hoping for is and why they retreated there was they were hoping for that anonymity as well.
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It was the final chapter of his historic run with RCA Records, and it was the bridge between the avant-garde experimentation of his late 1970s Berlin Trilogy and the mainstream new wave chart-topping pop success that he would achieve shortly thereafter with the album Let's Dance.
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Co-produced alongside longtime collaborator Tony Visconti, Bowie crafted a record that was sonically abrasive but highly accessible.
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It struck the perfect balance between technical artistry and commercial viability.
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Thematically, the record served as a sharp, cynical look back at the chaos of the previous decade and a preview of the looming media-saturated culture.
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Over time, Accolades have solidified its status as a masterpiece, as a matter of fact.
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In Rolling Stone magazine, their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, it finally hit their last list back in 2020-2021, where it landed at number 443.
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Rolling Stone also ranked the album at number seven on its Best Albums of 1980 list, while producer Tony Visconti reflected on the project as being their collective Sgt. Pepper album.
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In 1980, XTC released Black Sea.
Eric Paul JohnsonHOST
Blue Sky was covered by...
Eric Paul JohnsonHOST
The Cadets, Jack Livingston Orchestra and Singers, The Surf Breakers, King, Ten Sharp, Electric Light Orchestra Part 2, Geese Fighters, P. Hux, The Magic Orchestra, Glamourphone featuring Kelly, The Spinto Band, El Chorazon, Electric Light Orchestra, Artists featured in the covered medley, Gigantor, Yukio Young, Jonas, Paul McNulty, Triple Fast Action, Tony Visconti, Delgados, Lily Allen, The Big Fellas, Scattered Light Orchestra, Mayor Hawthorne, Holmes, Pale Blue Jack, The Spectres, The Segway Sisters, King Katen, Weezer, Postmodern Jukebox featuring Alice Young, and Dr.
Eric Paul JohnsonHOST
Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.
Jeff LynneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Sun is shining in the sky.
Chris FoxHOST
Before Dean left, however, he had co-written one final track with James.
Chris FoxHOST
That track was sent to producer Tony Visconti, the man responsible for the sonic architecture of David Bowie's glam era and T. Rex's guitar crunch.
Chris FoxHOST
Visconti's job was to take a frantic club band and compress their salsa energy into a precise radio-ready pop single.
Chris FoxHOST
But it's Tony Visconti, so of course he did.
Chris FoxHOST
This is Best Years of Our Lives, which was true if you love the '80s.
Chris FoxHOST
This is track eight.
Clare GroganGUEST
So I loved his ambition for us, you know, and we all couldn't wait.
Clare GroganGUEST
I mean, in my head still, I can't go over the fact that we managed to get Mike Chapman and Tony Visconti to work on that Bite album with us.
Clare GroganGUEST
And I just, I feel so great about that still.
Clare GroganGUEST
And, and, you know, with Stephen, he was the one that, you know, he was like, I don't know, just, he gave me a bit, gave me back some faith in myself, you know, but just in a silly way.
Clare GroganGUEST
I mean, everything worked out really well.
Steve BlameHOST
Well, it's amazing because, you know, we start off with Steve Severin.
Steve BlameHOST
We've got Martin Rush and there you are with Mike Chapman and Tony Visconti.
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I know.
Larry CraneGUEST
it's pretty rare that, that someone wants the, yeah, I think so.
Larry CraneGUEST
I mean, I think Tony Visconti is a great example in the book.
Arroe CollinsHOST
Yep.
Larry CraneGUEST
You know, he's a, I'm a fantastic musician.
Simon TeslerHOST
The artist in Bowie was still struggling to find his musical style.
Simon TeslerHOST
Two men would be instrumental in that process, the American musician Tony Visconti, who Bowie had met three years earlier through Mark Bolan, and a more recent introduction, the quiet, polite and immensely talented guitarist Mick Ronson.
Simon TeslerHOST
It was Ronson who also roped in a mate from his hometown of Hull to serve as drummer, Woody Woodmansey.
Simon TeslerHOST
All four were living at Haddon Hall, the sprawling and run-down Victorian mansion in South London, where Bowie and his new wife Angie rented a large flat and hosted an artist's commune.
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Simon TeslerHOST
The A-side was an early version of the track with which we're going to close the show.
Simon TeslerHOST
Bizarrely, Hell's punk anthem, I Belong to the Blank Generation, was actually the B-side.
Simon TeslerHOST
Instead, The A-Sider was a love song about Lizzie Mercier Desclues, a fiery and eccentric painter, poet and musician with whom Richard Hell enjoyed a stormy relationship during 1976.
Simon TeslerHOST
I could live with you in another world, not this one.
Clare GroganGUEST
We actually recorded the album in...
Clare GroganGUEST
Los Angeles and we did half the Byte album with Mike Chapman and the other half with Tony Visconti so these two absolutely iconic producers wanted to work with us and I think that you know I've spoken to Mike Chapman about it in more recent years not for a long time but in more recent years and he said oh my god you guys nearly pushed me over the edge really I just didn't expect you all to be so opinionated and
Allan GlenHOST
so at that point then because i get that massive single don't talk to me about loving that what's what's your feeling then we're acting now did you i can't remember were you still involved with acting were you being pulled in different directions or was it we able to kind of silo off a little bit
Clare GroganGUEST
no i was very much being pulled into different directions at that point um which got really tricky and so not long after we recorded the album i came back and made another film with Build for Scythe, Comfort and Joy.
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