Tony Visconti was a New Yorker at the heart of post-swinging London, the producer who helped the UK cope with its ’60s hangover. With T. Rex and, chiefly, David Bowie, he produced records synonymous with rock’s cutting-edge in Soho in the ’70s.

In his 2011 Red Bull Music Academy lecture, he relays how some unplanned work on a ’60s landmark got him a job in London, just as things peaked with Hendrix’s arrival and the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. A self-confessed gear freak, he details how he met Bolan and Bowie and reminds us all who actually produced that Berlin trilogy.