He remembers the basic rhythm track of his own guitar, Tony Sales’ bass and Hunt Sales’ drums being cut live, while Iggy’s lead vocal (through a guitar amp, as Ricky recalls), Bowie’s backing vocals and Carlos Alomar’s guitar were overdubbed later. Ricky – who sadly passed away earlier in 2022 – remembered The Passenger was nailed in rapid time at the Hansa studio. Music from Pauls career, reworked & redefined alongside The BBC Symphony Orchestra & acclaimed conductor Jules Buckley. David, being a Capricorn, likes everything rehearsed and ‘what’s going to be is going to be’.

“And then he came back the next morning with the lyrics and that was it! There’s no middle eight, and it’s just those chords… It was very interesting working with Iggy and David because they were quite different, although they had a lot in common. “Iggy recorded it on his mono battery cassette player with me playing it unplugged on the Strat,” explained Ricky. 'He would take something he liked, filter it through his own sort of genius, and make it his own' – David Bowie's guitarists on working with an iconīack in Berlin, both David and Iggy adored the motif Ricky was strumming and it wasn’t too long before the song was complete. An artist in her own right, she is the female vocalist on the track, a deeply personal moment for both. This podcast exists purely to solve that issue Welcome to Desperately Seeking.

Written together during lockdown, it emerged from a day session, with Paul writing the verses and Leah developing the chorus. Never getting to interview my hero, the legendary British musician Paul Weller. (Image credit: Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) A breezy yet soulful offering, it was co-written by the songwriter's daughter Leah Weller.

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