Tony Visconti - Bowie later recorded the track live at the BBC with Tony Visconti, another student of Chime Rinpoche.
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His students include American author and Buddhist Nun Pema Chödrön and musicians Mary Hopkin, David Bowie and Tony Visconti.
Working with producer Tony Visconti, Thin Lizzy maintained huge success with their previous album Bad Reputation, and the group wanted to work with him again.
Produced by Tony Visconti, it was McTell's fifth album to be released (aside from the remixed compilation Revisited) - and first album to chart - in the UK; and his third album to be released in the U.S. Ralph had been phoned and asked if he had decided on a title for the album and, wishing to give himself another day to come up with a title, responded "Not till tomorrow" which was misunderstood to be the name he had given to the album.
The album was produced by Tony Visconti and featured tracks from their two previous studio albums - Adventures in Clubland (1982) and Trick of the Light (1983) - and featured its sister single, "Good Friday", released simultaneously.
As his drug habit ate away at his physical and mental health, Bowie decided to move from Los Angeles to Paris and then West Berlin, where he began recording the Berlin Trilogy (Low, "Heroes", and Lodger) with Brian Eno and Tony Visconti.
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He was drumming under his real name for a group called Legend, fronted by Mickey Jupp, when Marc Bolan, the man behind the new-found success of T. Rex, spotted him and asked producer Tony Visconti to approach him.
It was recorded twice, once in upstate New York with Bowie producer Tony Visconti, bassist Bones Hillman and Ross Burge on drums, then again six months later in Los Angeles with Crowded House producer Mitchell Froom and different session musicians.
Later in the 1960s Flowers began to acquire his reputation as a session player, working for record producers such as Shel Talmy, Mickey Most, Steve Rowland, Richard Perry, Gus Dudgeon, and Tony Visconti.
It was announced in November 2007 that Jerry Finn, the man behind Morrissey's 2004 album You Are the Quarry, would be producing the new album instead of Tony Visconti.