1. Anthony Edward Visconti was born on April 24,1944 and is an American record producer, musician and singer.
26 Facts About Tony Visconti
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Tony Visconti's first hit single was T Rex's "Ride a White Swan" in 1970, the first of many hits in collaboration with Marc Bolan.
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Tony Visconti was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Italian descent.
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Tony Visconti started to play the ukulele when he was five years old and then learned guitar.
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Tony Visconti played in lounge acts, including the Ned Harvey Band and the Speedy Garfin Band, before joining a touring version of The Crew-Cuts, where he met his future wife.
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Tony Visconti then became in-house producer for his publisher, the Richmond Organization.
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Tony Visconti produced the first two albums by influential progressive rock band Gentle Giant.
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Shortly afterwards, Tony Visconti began to work again with Bowie and, along with guitarist Mick Ronson and drummer John Cambridge, formed and toured with the band The Hype, in which he played bass.
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In late 1970 and early 1971 Tony Visconti produced both the debut and second albums by UK Afrorock pioneers Osibisa.
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Tony Visconti scored the orchestral arrangements for Paul McCartney and Wings' 1973 album Band on the Run.
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Tony Visconti later produced two albums for the Moody Blues, The Other Side of Life and Sur La Mer.
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In 1997, Tony Visconti produced the debut album of The Stone Roses member John Squire's new band, The Seahorses, entitled Do It Yourself.
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Tony Visconti produced and played bass on a handful of tracks from The Dandy Warhols' 2003 album, Welcome to the Monkey House.
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Tony Visconti has collaborated as co-writer and producer on an album project by Richard Barone.
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Tony Visconti worked in Rome and produced the No 1 UK album by Morrissey Ringleader of the Tormentors.
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In 2007 and 2008 Tony Visconti was very active in the studio with Beninese singer Angelique Kidjo, producing her Grammy-winning album Djin Djin, which included guest artists Alicia Keys, Peter Gabriel, Joss Stone, Josh Groban, and Carlos Santana.
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Tony Visconti has produced and mixed two albums at Saint Claire Recording Studio in Lexington, Kentucky: The Bright Lights of America by Pittsburgh punk band Anti-Flag and Alejandro Escovedo's album Real Animal, released in June 2008.
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Tony Visconti produced Le Vent De L'Hiver by French artist Raphael in Paris and New York.
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Tony Visconti produced and mixed the Kristeen Young album Music for Strippers, Hookers, and the Odd On-Looker, released in 2009, and arranged the Fall Out Boy album Folie a Deux.
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In 2014 Tony Visconti produced and arranged several tracks on Marc Almond's album The Dancing Marquis.
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Almond had wanted to work with Visconti since hearing some of Visconti's earliest production work with T-Rex and David Bowie, stating, "It was a dream to work with Tony".
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From 2016 to 2023 Tony Visconti was a jury member of the ANCHOR-Award, linked to the Reeperbahn Festival.
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In 2018 Tony Visconti produced Evil Spirits for The Damned, their first album in ten years.
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In 2019 Tony Visconti produced the song "The Dragon Cries" with Band-Maid vocalists Miku Kobato and Saiki Atsumi.
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Tony Visconti served as music producer on the 2022 film Moonage Daydream, a documentary about Bowie written, produced, directed, and edited by Brett Morgen.
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Tony Visconti played bass on David Bowie's 1970 album The Man Who Sold the World.