Kaiser Chiefs double down on claims they as soon as turned down lyric from David Bowie
Kaiser Chiefs have doubled down on their declare that they as soon as turned down lyrics advised to them by David Bowie.
The Leeds band first spoke about their interplay with the rock icon in an interview with Information of the World again in 2011, when drummer Nick Hodgson famous that they had been capable of contact Bowie via a mutual colleague, the legendary producer Tony Visconti.
Visconti had co-produced their album ‘The Future is Medieval’, launched in the identical 12 months, and was on shut phrases with Bowie, having collaborated on over ten of his albums, together with classics equivalent to ‘Low’, ‘Heroes’ and ‘Scary Monsters (And Tremendous Creeps)’.
“Tony texted David asking for his strategies to complete off a verse [on ‘Man On Mars’] and he got here up with a few traces,” Hodgson recalled. “I’m such a giant Bowie fan I can’t consider I’m saying this, however they only weren’t proper, so I’ve missed out on a Hodgson/Bowie writing credit score. Gutted!”
Shortly after Hodgson’s feedback grew to become public, Visconti denied the claims to NME, stating: “I’ve by no means requested David Bowie to put in writing lyrics for the Kaiser Chiefs. I used to be employed for the manufacturing job due to Nick‘s obsession with Bowie and T. Rex, and I freely shared a few of my manufacturing secrets and techniques with them, however that didn’t embrace getting Bowie to put in writing lyrics for them. That’s absurd.”
However now, in a section on Virgin Radio UK, the band’s Ricky Wilson and Andrew White have restated that it did actually occur.
Kaiser Chiefs as soon as DIDN’T use a lyric given to them by the good David Bowie 😱
Our very personal @rickontour and his @KaiserChiefs bandmate @WhiteyKaiser delve into their model new “Straightforward Eighth Album” – out now!
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— Virgin Radio UK (@VirginRadioUK) March 3, 2024
“Keep in mind after we didn’t put in a lyric by David Bowie?” Wilson requested his bandmate.
“I bear in mind we texted him,” White replied.
“Yeah, properly Tony Visconti, the producer, we had been lacking a lyric, this was an album a very long time in the past,” Wilson continued. “And we requested, ‘Can David Bowie consider one?’ And he despatched one via, nevertheless it didn’t actually go along with the music.”
Wilson went on to say that the road Bowie provided was “Waters aren’t going to muddy themselves”, earlier than joking that he would possibly “save that for the subsequent file”.
After White commented that the road was “horrible”, Wilson replied, “You may’t say that, it’s Bowie!”
Kaiser Chiefs’ new album, ‘Kaiser Chiefs’ Straightforward Eighth Album’, was launched on Friday (March 1) by way of V2. It was preceded by the disco-laced single ‘Burning In Flames’.
Whether or not or not Bowie authorized of Kaiser Chiefs, it seems that Mark E. Smith didn’t, with Wilson lately recalling that the previous Fall frontman advised that “the Kaiser Chiefs and Arctic Monkeys ought to open a series of chip retailers in North Yorkshire”.
One other excessive profile determine that has publicly taken towards the band prior to now is former prime minister Boris Johnson, who Wilson remembers as soon as described him personally as an “epic softie”.
“I don’t know what an ‘epic softie’ is, nevertheless it’s most likely one thing you’d name somebody when you’d been to boarding faculty within the ‘80s and had been attempting to sound cool within the ’00s,” Wilson stated. “If you happen to had been going to have a brand new pop star, Epic Softie is a superbly acceptable title, so I don’t thoughts being referred to as that.”