Quotes About Visconti

Visconti, like most arrangers, was not used to his orchestration ideas being preempted, or dictated to him as if he were simply an assistant, hired to notate someone else's musical lines. But there was some flexibility within McCartney's instructions. "Some ideas he wanted me to strictly adhere to, and some were just sketches that I was asked to improve upon.

Tony Visconti took issue with this vague listing, which offers no hint that he wrote and conducted the orchestrations. And though Thorgerson (but not Powell) is included, Hipgnosis is not mentioned.