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Tony Visconti: the Autobiography
Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy
By Tony Visconti
Foreword by Morrissey
TWO PAGE ARTICLE IN THE TIMES
A Two Page Article featuring excepts from his forthcoming Biography appeared in Friday's Issue of 'The Times' (26th February, 2007).
The text is currently on The Times Web Site Click Here (off site link), but this does not include the photos. Therefore for Club Members who missed it, 200 dpi scans which can be saved & printed off as A4 sheets have been added to the Article Scans Section, along with the Full Text Transcript (fully credited as being owned by 'The Times' obviously) because sooner-or-later it will 'disappear' from The Times's own web site.
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. Visconti's unique
access to the biggest names and hottest talent, both on stage and off, for
over five decades is complemented by unseen photographs from his own
personal archive, and offers 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 fateful move to the land of tea and beer drunk straight from the
can, Visconti has worked with such names as T.Rex, Thin Lizzy, Wings, The
Boomtown Rats, Marsha Hunt, Procol Harum, and more recently Ziggy Marley,
Mercury Rev, the Manic Street Preachers and Morrissey on his acclaimed new
album 'Ringleader of the Tormentors'.
Even Visconti's personal life betrays an existence utterly immersed in music. Married to first to Siegrid Berman, then to Mary Hopkin and later to May Pang, he counts many of the musicians and producers he has worked with as close friends and is himself a celebrated musician.
Reviews - Praise for Tony Visconti's most recent work:
'[Morrissey] is so spectacularly presented by producer Tony Visconti that we end up not just with a Morrissey masterpiece ... but also a Visconti masterpiece . Ultimately, Visconti helps transform Morrissey's dogged oddness and phenomenal fussiness into pure magic.'
Observer, 2006
'Visconti recently teamed up again with his old foil David Bowie to record Bowie's best album in 20 years; now he has helmed Morrissey's best in 15 years.'
Scotsman, 2006
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