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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. 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.
Show moreA 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. 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.
Show more/ Key title 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. / Visconti will be in the UK to promote on publication. Personal contacts with Jools Holland and similar figures in the TV--music world show ensure prime-time guest appearances, and music journalists will ensure coverage in glossy magazines and broadsheets. / His unique insider's view of such legends as David Bowie, T.Rex, Morrissey and U2 (to name but a few) should prompt wide interest from the both the media and the hugely diverse fan-base that such artists still command. / The release of Morrissey's new album (April 2006) has revamped the (hardly dormant) invest in Tony Visconti throughout the world of popular music. / His excellent website is frequently updated and will be used to promote the book and tie-in events, publicity and reviews. / Competition: Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie and Mick Rock; Margrave Of The Marshes by John Peel and Sheila Ravenscroft; Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
Tony Visconti was born Brooklyn in 1944. His family’s traditional love of music ensured an early exposure to music that soon developed into a life-long obsession. Following a chance meeting with his ‘British music industry cousin’, Denny Cordell-Laverick, Visconti moved to the UK to begin one of the most famous careers in music production, launching and supporting some of the biggest names in pop history. He has now moved back to New York where he lives with his third wife, Mai Pang, but continues working within the UK music scene.
'Visconti's rare knack for musical arrangement, and directing and
engineering recordings, underpins some of the finest work of the
pre and post-rock glam era.'
The Mail on Sunday ‘Just as George Martin was the definitive '60s
producer, so Tony Visconti's work with David Bowie and Marc Bolan
shaped rock's landscape in the '70s.’
Q ‘What makes this latest instalment of the baby-boomer’s tale so
readable is his easy-going, unjudgemental familiarity with the
professional foibles of his clients. Not many people can remark, as
he does of Bob Geldof, that “singing is not his forte”, without the
slightest trace of bitchiness or reproach.’
The Sunday Times Culture magazine ‘Without question, Visconti is
one of the greatest and most innovative music producers of all
time. His gritty history of two decades of British pop makes me
want to brush the dust off my old Bowie and T.Rex albums and
skip-jive around the kitchen’.
Daily Mail ‘[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 ‘Visconti’s sparky autobiography takes you stomping
back to the frantic, glory days of glam rock and pop’
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