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out in the Catskills on 9/11; David was talking to
Iman, who was back in the apartment, on the phone
as she saw the second plane hit. When David
returned to Manhattan, there was an ominous gap in
the familiar view from the kitchen window; Iman
realised that many of the men who used to greet her
and Lexi as she wheeled the buggy by the local Fire
Department station a couple of blocks away were
probably dead. It would cement the family’s
relationship with the city; David headlined October’s
Concert for New York and would talk no more of
moving back to London. But for all the fear and
anxiety David sensed in the air, convinced there
would be a further attack, he was infectiously
optimistic, recounting Lexi’s babywords verbatim to
friends, reading her books, telling those around him
how lucky he was.
The sense of event around the release of
Heathen in June 2002 was palpable – the presence
of Tony Visconti seemed to fire up fans far more
than an internet marketing campaign. The
excitement was stoked up by a show at New York’s
Roseland Ballroom, and then his appearance at the
culmination of his own Meltdown Season at
London’s Royal Festival Hall. The series had been
controversial – or rather ‘disappointingly
unadventurous’, according to the London Evening
Standard – for his involvement as curator was
patchy, with his attention diverted by negotiations
with new record company Sony. Yet the closing night
was a sensation, mostly for the performance of Low,
in its entirety, followed by Heathen. Mark Plati had