Ricky Wilson and Andrew White once again claimed that David Bowie wrote song lyrics for the Kaiser Chiefs
O Kaiser Chiefs again stated that David Bowie wrote the lyrics to a song for the band. In 2011, the then drummer Nick Hodgson said in an interview with News of the World that the group contacted Bowie through Tony Viscontiproducer who worked with CamaleĆ£o do Rock on several albums and co-produced The Future is Medieval (2011), fourth studio album by Kaiser Chiefs (via NME).
“Tony sent a message to David asking for suggestions to finish a verse [de ‘Man On Mars’] and he came up with some lyrics”, he recalled Hodgson. “I’m a big fan of BowieI can’t believe I’m saying this, but they weren’t cool, so we left out ‘Hodgson/Bowie’ in the credits.”
Viscontihowever, denied the rumors created by Hodgsondeclaring to the NME: “I never asked the David Bowie to write lyrics for the Kaiser Chiefs. I was hired for the producer job because of my obsession with Nick with Bowie It is T. Rexand I shared some of my production secrets with them, but that didn’t include getting the Bowie write a letter for them. This is absurd.”
In a recent interview with Virgin Radio UK, Ricky Wilson It is Andrew White they spoke about the subject again. “Remember when you rejected the letter of David Bowie?”, He asked Wilson The White. “I remember we sent a message,” he replied. White.
“Yes well, Tony Viscontithe producer… Lyrics were missing, it had been an album for a long time”, he continued Wilson. “And we asked, ‘What Bowie Can you think of anything?’ And he sent one, but not right with the music.” Watch the moment:
Kaiser Chiefs once DIDN’T use a lyric given to them by the great David Bowie š±
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ā Virgin Radio UK (@VirginRadioUK) March 3, 2024
Source: Rollingstone
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