Tony Visconti refutes Kaiser Chiefs' claims that they rejected David Bowie's lyrics

Tony Visconti refutes Kaiser Chiefs' claims that they rejected David Bowie's lyrics
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Tue 7 Jun 2011

​[Source: NME.com] Producer Tony Visconti has refuted claims by Kaiser Chiefs' drummer Nick Hodgson that the band rejected lyrics written by David Bowie for their new fan-compiled album 'The Future Is Medieval'. 

The drummer had told the News Of The World yesterday (June 5) that they contacted Bowie through Visconti and had asked him for some help with lyrics. 

Hodgson said: "Tony texted David asking for his suggestions to finish off a verse [on 'Man On Mars'] and he came up with a couple of lines. I'm such a big Bowie fan I can't believe I'm saying this, but they just weren't right, so I've missed out on a Hodgson/Bowie writing credit. Gutted!"

Visconti has now denied this though, telling NME this morning (June 6): "I have never asked David Bowie to write lyrics for the Kaiser Chiefs. I was hired for the production job because of Nick's obsession with Bowie and T. Rex, and I freely shared some of my production secrets with them, but that did not include getting Bowie to write lyrics for them. That is absurd." 


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