and david bowie might have left us for another planet, but his legacy lives on. ahead of what would have been his 75th birthday, a new album of never released material is about to be released. toy was recorded in 2001, with the star recording a combination of new material and revamped versions of earlier songs. the records producer, mark plati, joined me from new york. i asked him about the inspiration behind this album. this all sprang from a show called vh1 storytellers in 1999. the idea there was you d play a song and then you d tell a story about the song and what was happening, what inspired the song. and he wanted to play something from his early period, from the mid 60s, so we played a song called can t help thinking about me, which he had never done. and he really enjoyed doing it. we all really enjoyed playing it so much that we continued to play it on the tour that followed. an idea kind of sprung that maybe it d be fun to rerecord a lot of those early songs with one band, in
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songs were all split between different producers, different studios, musicians. they all sounded very different, not very cohesive. and the idea was we would select a batch of these songs and rerecord them with one group of people, with us producing all of this. and tell us about the recording experience, because the two of you worked incredibly closely together, didn t you? yeah, it was unlike something i d done up to that point. for the most part during the 90s, most records were done in more of a piecemealway, multitrack, and sometimes the songs wouldn t even be written when an artist would come to the studio. songs would be built up piece by piece, layered, and things like that. which was a very cool process, and the first two records i did with david were very much in that vein. but this time we thought we would go more of an old school route and rehearse the band. the band would then go out
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and perform and kind of get to know each other really well musically and get on that wavelength together. we did that by playing glastonbury together and bbc radio theatre, and performed a couple of toy songs then. after that we came back to new york, took a couple of days off and then went right into the studio to start recording them. and it was really quite different, as well, musically, because we were all on such a collective wavelength together. the mood was great, it was exhilarating. it was kind of empowering and humbling at the same time playing with some of these legendary people, as well as just the vibe we all had together. a lot of that came from david himself, who was in a very great place, i think. it had been a smashing success in glastonbury and he was going to be a dad again, and that was infectious