Tony Visconti

About

Tony Visconti (Brooklyn, 24 April 1944) is an American record producer, musician and arranger who has been active since the late 1960s. He moved to London in 1968 and went on to become one of the most influential figures in rock production history. His name is inseparable from David Bowie - spanning the 1969 debut album through to Blackstar in 2016 - and from Marc Bolan, for whom he produced the breakthrough album Electric Warrior (1971). He has also worked with T. Rex, Thin Lizzy, Iggy Pop, U2 and Morrissey, and has won three Grammy Awards.

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Grammy Awards won

Brit Award Album of the Year for Blackstar (2016)

tracks on the box set 'Produced by Tony Visconti' (2023)

What's new

2026-09
Holy Holy, the live band with Visconti as bassist, plays a series of farewell concerts in September 2026 under the name 'The Final Tour - a Celebration of Bowie', including in Hull and Dublin.
2026-01
Visconti was a guest at the 'David Bowie in Time' event at the British Library in London in January 2026, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Bowie's death.
2025-09
The David Bowie box set 'I Can't Give Everything Away (2002-2016)', which Visconti worked on as producer and remaster consultant, was released on 12 September 2025.
2023-10
In October 2023, Demon Music released the box set 'Produced by Tony Visconti', a survey of six decades of production work with David Bowie, T. Rex, U2 and Joe Cocker, among others.