<p>Tony Visconti left Brooklyn for London in 1967, began working with the Move and Marc Bolan and formed a life-long friendship with the teenage David Bowie, playing on his first two albums and producing 10 of ones that followed. And in 2014 he formed Holy Holy with Woody Woodmansey, a live celebration of Bowie’s music from 1970 to Blackstar. They’re touring again in September with Glenn Gregory as lead singer – “you can’t mourn forever.” He talks to us here about …</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… the gig they played the night Bowie died</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… life at Bowie’s commune at Haddon Hall – “I kept my door firmly locked!”</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… Marc Bolan at Middle Earth, “a hundred spellbound kids sitting cross-legged on the floor”</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… hearing Flowers In The Rain (which he arranged) as the first record on Radio One</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… “A little chinwag?” How Bowie broke the news about his illness</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… his dislike of Space Oddity, “I told him it was novelty, a sell-out”</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… producing The Man Who Sold The World and the emotional Blackstar</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… the night he met the teenage Bowie and they wound up in a Chelsea cinema</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… “Why are you doing this?” Bowie’s reaction to the first Holy Holy tour in 2014</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>…&nbsp;his time as the red-caped Hypeman and Ronson and Woody’s resistance to make-up, “macho boys from Hull”</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… walking round New York with a cassette of secret The Next Day album in his pocket</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… and the big emotional moments in the Holy Holy set list</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Order Holy Holy tickets here: </strong><a href="https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/holy-holy-tickets/artist/2096354" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/holy-holy-tickets/artist/2096354</a></p><br><p><strong>Help us to keep the conversation going: </strong><a href="https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>