The day I played Mellotron for David Bowie

It’s 1969, a young Rick Wakeman has mastered the weird electonic keyboard, and a rising star wants him to play on a track called Space OddityIt was early 1969, I was 19 coming up on 20. I’d worked with the producer Tony Visconti that year on the Junior’s Eyes album. I was playing a Mellotron which was a relatively new instrument and difficult to keep in tune, but I’d found a crafty way. Tony asked: “How’d you do that?” and I said: “It’s just