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FREE TONY VISCONTI: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY: BOWIE, BOLAN AND THE BROOKLYN BOY PDF Tony Visconti,Morrissey | 400 pages | 28 Apr 2008 | HarperCollins Publishers | 9780007229451 | English | London, United Kingdom Tony Visconti: The Autobiography: Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy by Tony Visconti We use cookies to help provide you with the best possible online experience. By using this site, you agree that we may store Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy access cookies on your device. Accept Cookies policy Privacy policy. Becoming a subscriber is easy. A subscription gives you access to all the articles and audio interviews in the library. Click here for academic and other group subscriptions. Enter your email address in the field below and we'll send you a password to read all free articles on RBP. Rock's Backpages is the world's most comprehensive online database of pop music writing, a unique resource unavailable elsewhere online. 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After Phil Spector, Tony Visconti is probably the Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy famous American record producer of the pop era, and over a career spanning 40 years, he has worked or crossed paths with most of the British rock aristocracy. Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy thousands of articles in the library. Please select Louis Public Library St. Card number. Click here for personal subscriptions Click here for academic and other group subscriptions Enter your email address in the field below and we'll send you a password to read all free articles on RBP. Subscriptions Institutional Personal Not a subscriber? Subscribe Becoming a member is easy. Click here to go to Subscribe page. Sign in Username. Facebook Twitter Instagram Tumblr Spotify. Tony Visconti - Wikipedia Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Tony Visconti by Tony Visconti. Morrissey Foreword. A name synonymous with ground-breaking music, Tony Visconti has worked with the most dynamic and influential names in pop, from T. 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 s and '70s. This memoir takes you on a roller-coas A name synonymous with ground-breaking music, Tony Visconti has Tony Visconti: the Autobiography: Bowie with the most dynamic and influential names in pop, from T. 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. Featuring behind-the-scenes stories of big names such as Bowie, Visconti's unique access to the hottest talent, both on stage and off, for over five decades is complemented by unseen photographs from his own personal archive, offering 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 Tony Visconti: the Autobiography: Bowie, 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. 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. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published September 3rd by Harper first published January 1st More Details Original Title. Other Editions 4. Tony Visconti: the Autobiography: Bowie Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy about Tony Viscontiplease sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Nov 11, Stewart Home rated it it was ok. I'd recommend this to anyone who wants a primer on corporate ass kissing. Viconti has his tongue so far up the ass of certain living show business figures that his ghost writer's turdy tongue speaks with their voice - and in particular with the inflections of the tedious David Bowie. On the other hand, Marc Bolan is long dead and gets slagged off for being the ego-maniac he so obviously was although personally I still really dig his super-dumb three chord bop. Reading this rant you can't help I'd recommend this to anyone who wants a primer on corporate ass kissing. Reading this rant you can't help thinking that if Bowie had died in a car accident in the seventies and Bolan was still around, then Bowie would be the one being slagged off as the boring prima donna he so obviously is and Visconi's ghost voice would instead be pleasuring Bolan with his verbal rim jobs. View all 6 comments. Jun 05, Ruth Anne rated it it was ok Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy rock-and-rollnon-fictionautobiography. I SO wanted to like this book. After all, it's Tony Visconti, producer and engineer extraordinaire. And I know of no Brooklyn boy who writes with the British spellings of words like colour, programme, odour, etc. Not to mention using "flat" for apa I SO wanted to like this book. Not to mention using "flat" for apartment, "go to hospital", things like that. Am I being petty? Perhaps, but here, it only sounds pretentious. But it's worse. How about "Before he passed away, I worked with Marc Bolan And his Tony Visconti: the Autobiography: Bowie dissing of Marc Bolan who after all, suffered a terrible death before he diedand omission of more important players such as Mick Ronson, who was given a mere mention here and there I found appalling. Great producer, lousy writer. View 1 comment. Oct 26, Luke rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites. Oct 14, Khris Sellin rated it really liked it. Fun read about Tony Visconti's life in the music biz. Anyone who knows me knows I've always been a huge fan of Bowie and T Rex, so to hear what it was like to work with these geniuses and how it all came together is just fascinating to me. Some have slagged him for slagging on Marc Bolan. Guess what? This ain't the first time we've heard Bolan was a raving, egotistical lunatic. I actually thought it was pretty "big" of him to be honest and to be able to put personal feelings aside and still rave Fun read Tony Visconti: the Autobiography: Bowie Tony Visconti's life in the music biz. I actually thought it was pretty "big" of him to be honest and to be able to put personal feelings aside and still rave about Bolan's greatness as a performer. He also shares stories of lesser-known musicians he's worked with, and it's always fun discovering "new old" music, and rediscovering music I'd forgotten about. He also seems to be pretty honest about his own faults and shortcomings. He's thrice-divorced and never puts any of the blame on his exes for the collapse of these relationships. I had no idea he'd been married to Mary Hopkin! Aug 11, Jim Nirmaier rated it really liked it. He was a Baby Boomer raised primarily in a provincial Italian section of Flatbush and, as so many others of the time, he was deeply affected and influenced most dramatically by Elvis Presley. As still a young teenager, he got steady gigs performing in the still vital Dirty Dancing-era Jewish resorts Tony Visconti: the Autobiography: Bowie the Borscht Belt as a guitarist with Ricardo and the Latineers, led by a Jewish kid from Brooklynn named Richard Ritz. While settling into his new gigs he saw Hendrix at the Shaftsbury Theatre on a twin-bill with Denny Laine. Out came the lighter fluid and Mr. He subsequently began to assist in the studio laying down strings for the Move, small production touches for Manfred Mann, collaborating with Denny Laine, etc. John Lennon had already expressed interest in them for his planned new label called Grapefruit at the time! It was psychedelic Tony Visconti: the Autobiography: Bowie and very much music of its time but was Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy well-received critically.