Music producer and David Bowie’s longtime collaborator Tony Visconti claims his 2002 album Heathen was ‘prophetic’ in its lyrical content as he’d recorded the tunes before September 11
David Bowie was a secret “clairvoyant” who foresaw the horrific 9/11 attacks that killed thousands of innocents.
His longtime collaborator Tony Visconti claimed the Starman predicted the atrocity in lyrics he penned. The music producer said the pair were in the studio together watching the tragedy unfold on TV in September 2001.
Bowie’s album Heathen came out the following year – but Tony said he had already recorded songs that predicted it. He revealed: “The only TV set was in David’s room. The one time we watched something together was that fateful day when he called me and said I needed to come to his room because something terrible had happened in New York.
“I went to his room where he was watching the news. Right at that moment, the second plane hit the Towers. We were both horrified.
“The most important thing was to call his family, but all the phones were dead, so that took about 24 hours.
“People often think the album was inspired by 9/11, but it was written and mainly recorded before.
“I had an eerie feeling about it. The lyrics were about things falling, about confusion and about chaos.
“I didn’t ever say it to his face, but it was prophetic. He saw it. He definitely saw it. He saw the future.
“It was strange because I knew him well as a very talented and interesting and mysterious person, but I didn’t know he was clairvoyant. That was a new one for me.”
The September 11 attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States killed 2,977 people, making it the deadliest terrorist assault in history.
Bowie was 69 when he died 15 years later in 2016 in New York, where he had made his home.
Tony told Uncut that by his pal’s last album Blackstar “he was obviously obsessed with death”.
He added: “He wrote about being alone even though he was surrounded by people who loved him.
“Some of them loved him because he was David Bowie, but he was David Jones underneath all of that.
“He didn’t take idolatry seriously, he wanted real friends. He had many of those.
“Towards the end, he became close friends with Hugh Jackman, as they lived in the same building and met each other in the lift.
“I always knew he was really David Jones even though he was David Bowie from the moment I met him, at my publisher’s office on Oxford Street.”
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