David Bowie’s legendary music producer has revealed that when he first heard the iconic singer he thought he was “all over the place”.
And he even turned down the seminal hit Space Oddity. Tony Visconti told the Out to Lunch podcast: “He played me this album where he did these Tony Newley impersonations.
“And I said, ‘Here’s what I think, he’s all over the place and he needs to be focused’.” He added: “Little did I know how versatile he was.” They eventually started working together – but Tony, now 79, was still not convinced all Bowie’s work was a hit.
He said: “When David brought Space Oddity to me I said, ‘It’s a cheap shot’. “I said ‘it’s a novelty record, what are you going to follow it up with – the trip to Jupiter?’.”
Bowie went to another producer, it became a huge hit, and Tony apologised. “He says, ‘No, no, we had to get that one out of the way, now let’s continue to make the Space Oddity album’. I was flabbergasted.”
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