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1 of 4Watch That Man: Tony Visconti, David Bowie's producer, friend and Alcoholics Anonymous "buddy" Times photographer, Christopher Lane -
2 of 4Boy Keeps Swinging: David Bowie at The Magic Shop in New York in 2011. His new album was tracked and mixed at the studio Jimmy King -
3 of 4All the Young Dudes: Hermione Farthingale, David Bowie, Tony Visconti and John Hutchinson in London in 1969 Ray Stevenson / Rex Features -
4 of 4Young American: Tony Visconti in 1968 Ray Stevenson / Rex Features
After a silent decade David Bowie is back. Tim Teeman talks to the singer’s producer, friend and representative on Earth. Scroll to the bottom for a track-by-track guide to Bowie’s new album
Tony Visconti has known David Bowie since 1967 and produced 12 of his most memorable albums, beginning with The Man Who Sold the World (1970). He has done “mountains of cocaine” with his longtime friend, “though alcohol was far worse”. Both are now sober veterans of Alcoholics Anonymous, living in New York with a shared passion for Japanese food — Bowie is “very much a sushi guy”. But when Bowie called Visconti two years ago to “work on some demos”, the 68-year-old producer admits that he was shocked.
“I had no idea he was writing again. We had spoken in 2009
