Tony Visconti

Latest about Tony Visconti

Esperanza Spalding performs on stage during Day 1 of Cruilla Festival at Parc del Forum on July 8, 2016 in Barcelona, Spain.

How Esperanza Spalding created the most complex music of her career under the guidance of an alter ego

By E.E. Bradman published

With help from producer Tony Visconti, one of the brightest stars of 21st century bass found a brand-new source of inspiration

Bassists
Tony Visconti performs at O2 Academy Birmingham on June 29, 2015 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Singer David Bowie at the Valentine Pop Awards.

How Tony Visconti rethought rock bass for David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold the World

By Chris Jisi published

The legendary producer revisits his ground-shaking bass work on Bowie’s 1970 breakthrough album

Bassists
David Bowie performing with guitarist Mick Ronson at a live recording of 'The 1980 Floor Show' for the NBC 'Midnight Special' TV show, at The Marquee Club in London, with a specially invited audience of Bowie fanclub members, 20th October 1973.

“When you’re the bass player and it’s time for the solo, you go nuts, because you’ve been playing rhythm for everyone else for so long!” Tony Visconti on David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold The World

By Joel McIver published

Spurred on by guitarist Mick Ronson, Tony Visconti’s bass playing ranged from the wildest of improvised runs to proto-heavy-metal support

Bassists
Marc Bolan

Tony Visconti reflects on the genius of T. Rex's Marc Bolan

By Mark McStea published

“Marc is criminally underrated as a guitarist. All rock ’n’ rollers love T. Rex, and there’s a little bit of T. Rex in every rock ’n’ roll band”

Guitarists
David Bowie

Tony Visconti recounts the making of David Bowie's The Man Who Sold the World

By Mark McStea published

50 years on from its release, the former David Bowie bassist and uber-producer tells the story of one of Bowie's greatest albums, and the enduring influence of Mick Ronson

Music Releases