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David Bowie Avoided Rock N Roll On New Album Blackstar

11/25/2015
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(Classic Rock) Longtime David Bowie producer Tony Visconti says the singer wanted to "avoid rock'n'roll" on his latest album Blackstar. And he reports the pair listened to a lot of hip hop artist Kendrick Lamar before the recording process got under way in an effort to explore other avenues for the record's direction.

Visconti tells Rolling Stone: "We wound up with nothing like that, but we loved the fact Kendrick was so open-minded and he didn't do a straight-up hip hop record. He threw everything on there, and that's exactly what we wanted to do. The goal, in many, many ways, was to avoid rock'n'roll."

Last week, Bowie released the sprawling title track from the album which originally clocked in at over 11 minutes. But Visconti reports they cut it back to 9 minutes 57 seconds as iTunes won't post singles over 10 minutes in length.

The producer adds: "It's total bullsh*t but David was adamant it be the single, and he didn't want both an album version and a single version, since that gets confusing." Read more here.

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