Woody woodmansey tony visconti biography

In January 2017, St. Martin’s is releasing ‘Spider from Mars: My Life with Bowie‘ by drummer Mick ‘Woody’ Woodmansey, the last surviving member of David Bowie’s backing band in the early 1970s, the Spiders from Mars.

Woodmansey played on the quartet of albums that brought Bowie to international stardom—from 1970’s The Man Who Sold the World to 1973’s Aladdin Sane—and in this memoir, he gives a firsthand account of recording sessions, tours, and the excesses that eventually broke the band apart.

Tony Visconti, Bowie’s longtime producer, contributes the foreword.

Woodmansey’s memoir, which he started work on in 2014, focuses on this key period and brings it to glorious life. A phone call from David Bowie changed Woodmansey’s life.

It was March 1970 and the twenty-year-old drummer from Driffield was about to take a sensible well-paid factory job. Instead, he took a huge leap of faith and joined BowieR