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and ‘Win’, Tony Visconti flew over to London with the
tapes, to mix them at his home studio, happy at
finally completing the thrilling, but gruelling sessions.
In his first few days back in New York, David had
also called up John Lennon and May Pang; he was
nervous about meeting the ex-Beatle again, and at
one point called Tony Visconti over to the Sherry
Netherlands hotel to help ease the conversation
along. Although their meeting in LA had gone
nowhere, David and John had a huge amount in
common. Bowie would talk about John frequently;
John was interested in David, friendly, but invariably
slightly puzzled. ‘David was still very nervous, John
was happy to hang out,’ says May Pang. The
atmosphere remained slightly awkward, all the more
so when Paul and Linda McCartney – who had just
bumped into John and May – entered the picture in
mid-January.
The four of them went over to the Sherry to meet
David, who repeatedly played the various mixes of
his new album for them, ‘and we had heard it
already. In lots of different states,’ says Pang. David
was about to replay the acetate for John for at least
the second time when John told him, ‘David it’s
great, a great album … is there anything else we can
listen to as well?’ David looked devastated; John
hadn’t noticed Paul had made almost exactly the
same remark a few minutes earlier, and when the
couple returned to their apartment on 52nd Street
that night, the phone was ringing as they came
through the door. ‘Yes David, sorry man, I didn’t
mean that,’ John consoled his offended, cocaine-