Tony visconti autobiography

This is the compelling life story of the man who helped shape music history, and gives a unique, first-hand insight into life in London during the late 1960s.
This is the compelling life story of the man who helped shape music history, and gives a unique, first-hand insight into life in London during.
A name synonymous with ground-breaking music, Tony Visconti has worked with the most dynamic and influential names in pop, from T.Rex and Iggy Pop to David Bowie and U2.

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Tony Visconti: Tony Visconti: The Autobiography: Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy

For Tape Op #29, I sat down and interviewed Tony Visconti, one of my producing/engineering heroes for his work with Bowie, T. Rex, U2, The Stranglers, Paul McCartney, and others. What I found was a generous, funny, charming and witty man whose calm exterior would set any recording session at ease. In my mind, the sonics of record production would have never been the same without his experimenting with Bowie and Eno, his magnificent arranging skills, and some endless creativity. In this autobiography, Tony is brutally honest about his life, his mistakes, drug abuse, and the intense whirlwind of a workload that he went through for many years. It's a fascinating tale, from a childhood in Brooklyn to producing records all over the world. For us recording geeks, the book is fairly general; Tony takes the time to explain the recording process-and occasionally the unique techniques he used to get sounds and performances-but overall, the story here is of hard work and a love of music. If there is one ve

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Tony Visconti: the Autobiography: Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy

A name synonymous with ground-breaking music, Tony Visconti has worked with the most dynamic and influential names in pop, from T.Rex and Iggy Pop to David Bowie and U2. This is the compelling life story of the man who helped shape music history, and gives a unique, first-hand insight into life in London during the late 1960s and '70s.

This memoir takes you on a roller-coaster journey through the glory days of pop music, when men wore sequins and pop could truly rock. Featuring behind-the-scenes stories of big names such as Bowie, Visconti's unique access to the hottest talent, both on stage and off, for over five decades is complemented by unseen photographs from his own personal archive, offering a glimpse at music history that few have witnessed so intimately.

Soon after abandoning his native New York to pursue his musical career in the UK, Visconti was soon in the thick of the emerging glam rock movement, launching T.Rex to commercial success and working with the then-unknown David Bowie.

Since his

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Broken marriages, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll

Banging a Gong (and Getting it On) with Tony Visconti

By Don Stradley

Tony Visconti always struck me as a man of mystery – an exotic sounding name that often appeared on the liner notes of my favorite albums, he was either a highly sought after bass player, or a wizard-like knob turner, one that I imagined dressed like Federico Fellini and worked studio magic for the most magical of recording artists, from David Bowie and Morrissey, to Iggy Pop, the Boomtown Rats and U2 – but it turns out there wasn’t much magic to him at all. Which doesn’t mean he was just some schnook who lucked into a great career as a music producer and arranger; to do what he did, to help create such iconic titles as Electric Warrior, Diamond Dogs, Scary Monsters, and Heroes, plus an ocean’s worth of art rock and obscure punk, you’d need enormous talent, plus the native ability to earn a performer’s trust. Magic? No. After reading Tony Visconti, The Autobiography: Bowie, Bolan, a