Take “Five Years,” the opening track on David Bowie’s masterpiece The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, an album Scott had engineered. “The end of that song is so emotional,” Scott said. “Bowie literally had tears streaming down his face as he was singing it.” Today, an audio engineer would smooth out those cracks in Bowie’s voice with Pro Tools as he sang his heart out, even though that shaking voice is precisely what makes the song’s finale so arresting.
