Tony Visconti spills the beans on David Bowie's new album David Bowie - Where Are We Now? on MUZU.TV. He added that the album's title track, The Next Day, was based on medieval English history, and would "rock out": [Bowie] was reading a lot of medieval English history books, and he came up with one medieval English history song. That's the title track, "The Next Day." It's about somebody who was a tyrant, very insignificant; I didn't even know who he was talking about. But if you read the lyrics, it's quite a horrific story. The Next Day rocks out. Same with The Stars (Are Out Tonight) - that rocks out, too. Visconti first worked with Bowie on the London-born singer-songwriter's 1970 album The Man Who Sold The World, and would go on to produce many of the albums of Bowie's celebrated Seventies period, including Diamond Dogs, Heroes, Lodger, Scary Monsters, Low - and so-called "plastic soul" album Young Americans. He said that the new song Boss of Me harked back to Bowie's mid-Seventies sound. [Boss of Me] is one of the slower, funky ones. It's really solid. There's a little Young Americans in there. But that's really not proper ... It's a new kind of direction for him, melodically. Visconti also promised that album closer Heat would sound like a "classic Bowie ballad." It's very dramatic. He's singing in his handsomest voice, a very deep, very sonorous voice. And I can't give too much away about it because honestly, I don't know exactly what it's about, if it's about being in a real prison or being imprisoned in your mind. Elsewhere in the interview, Visconti confirmed that it was unlikely that Bowie - who suffered a heart attack on stage in 2004 and has not performed live since 2006 - would go on tour, but refused to rule out a one-off show: He made that very clear to the label that he wasn't going to tour or do any kind of ridiculously long album promotion. I spoke to him two days ago and he said, 'I'm really adamant I'm not gonna do a tour.' And he said, 'If I might, I might do one show.' But who knows when.