David Bowie‘s long-term collaborator Tony Visconti has revealed there are still two or three ‘astounding’ songs left over from the sessions which resulted in ‘The Next Day‘, reports the BBC.
“On behalf of my friend David Bowie it feels absolutely great,” he said when speaking to BBC News. “We were very excited with the reaction. Honestly I was in a daze for the first week, because keeping a secret for two years took quite a lot of lying. I almost started believing my own stories!
“No one believed that David Bowie was going to make another album and so the timing was perfect, because everyone kind of gave up on him. There were rumours of bad health and rumours of retirement, and I’m laughing my head off every time I hear them.”
“I’m in the studio with a very healthy man who has no problem writing songs, he wrote easily 30 songs for that album.”
Visconti was speaking after he collected the Innovation Award at this week’s Music Producers Guild Awards following the ecstatic reaction to Bowie’s 2013 comeback LP.