Mick Ronson

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Only After Dark 03:32 Tools
Billy Porter 03:35 Tools
Growing Up and I'm Fine 00:00 Tools
Slaughter on 10th Avenue 00:00 Tools
Love Me Tender 00:00 Tools
Music Is Lethal 00:00 Tools
I'm the One 00:00 Tools
Pleasure Man / Hey Ma Get Papa 00:00 Tools
Life on Mars 00:00 Tools
Angel No. 9 00:00 Tools
Hard Life 00:00 Tools
Like A Rolling Stone 00:00 Tools
Play Don't Worry 00:00 Tools
Fbi 00:00 Tools
White Light White Heat 04:10 Tools
Sweet Dreamer 00:00 Tools
This Is For You 00:00 Tools
Crazy Love 00:00 Tools
Junkie 00:00 Tools
Don't Look Down 00:00 Tools
Slaughter On 10Th Ave 00:00 Tools
White Light / White Heat 00:00 Tools
Hey Grandma 00:00 Tools
Just Like This 00:00 Tools
Colour Me 00:00 Tools
Oh! You Pretty Things 00:00 Tools
Hazy Days 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed (Io Me Ne Andrei) 00:00 Tools
Ziggy Stardust 00:00 Tools
Woman 00:00 Tools
Girl Can't Help It 00:00 Tools
When The World Falls Down 00:00 Tools
You And Me 00:00 Tools
Changes 00:00 Tools
Trouble With Me 00:00 Tools
Midnight Love 00:00 Tools
Life's A River 00:00 Tools
Stone Love (Soul Love) 00:00 Tools
Five Years 00:00 Tools
Soul love 00:00 Tools
White Light/White Heat 04:10 Tools
I'd Rather Be Me 00:00 Tools
Starman 00:00 Tools
Take A Long Line 00:00 Tools
Moonage Daydream 00:00 Tools
Pain in the City 00:00 Tools
The man who sold the world 00:00 Tools
Suffragette City 00:00 Tools
Queen Bitch 00:00 Tools
Kooks 00:00 Tools
Rock 'N' Roll Suicide 00:00 Tools
All the Young Dudes 00:00 Tools
Dogs (French Girl) 00:00 Tools
Quicksand 00:00 Tools
Eight Line Poem - 2000 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Lady Stardust 00:00 Tools
The Supermen - 2000 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Eight Line Poem 00:00 Tools
The Bewlay Brothers 00:00 Tools
Solo on 10th Avenue - Live 00:00 Tools
Andy Warhol 00:00 Tools
28 Days Jam 00:00 Tools
Love Me Tender (live) 00:00 Tools
Hang On to Yourself 00:00 Tools
Fill Your Heart 00:00 Tools
Leave My Heart Alone - Live B-Side 00:00 Tools
I'd Give Anything to See You 00:00 Tools
Star 00:00 Tools
Song for Bob Dylan 00:00 Tools
Solo on 10th Avenue (live) 00:00 Tools
All The Young Dudes - Live 00:00 Tools
Seven Days 00:00 Tools
Love Me Tender - Live 00:00 Tools
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue - Live 00:00 Tools
Cracked Actor 00:00 Tools
All The Madmen 00:00 Tools
Watch That Man 00:00 Tools
It Ain't Easy 00:00 Tools
The Jean Genie 00:00 Tools
Seven Days (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Time 00:00 Tools
Seven Days - Original B-Side 00:00 Tools
Lady Grinning Soul 00:00 Tools
After All 00:00 Tools
Drive-In Saturday 00:00 Tools
Jack & Diane 00:00 Tools
Panic In Detroit 00:00 Tools
Aladdin Sane (1913 - 1938 - 197?) 00:00 Tools
Black Country Rock 00:00 Tools
Saviour Machine 00:00 Tools
The supermen 00:00 Tools
She Shook Me Cold 00:00 Tools
Solo On 10th Avenue [Live] (Previously Unreleased) 00:00 Tools
Leave My Heart Alone (Live B-Side) 00:00 Tools
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (Live) 00:00 Tools
Leave My Heart Alone (live) 00:00 Tools
Seven Days (Original B-Side) 00:00 Tools
Slaughter on 10th Avenue (live) 00:00 Tools
The Prettiest Star 00:00 Tools
Takin' A Train 00:00 Tools
Slaughter on 10th Avenue [Live] (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Woman (alternate take) 00:00 Tools
Love Me Tender [Live] (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Leave My Heart Alone [Live] (Original "B" Side) 00:00 Tools
Woman (Alternative Take) 00:00 Tools
Take a Longline 00:00 Tools
Woman - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
(I'm Just A) Junkie For Your Love 00:00 Tools
Is That Any Way 00:00 Tools
All The Young Dudes (Live) 00:00 Tools
Satellite 1 00:00 Tools
I've Got No Secrets 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed 00:00 Tools
Hurts So Good 00:00 Tools
Indian Summer (Opening Title) 00:00 Tools
Hey Ma Get Papa 00:00 Tools
Ballad of Jack Daniels 00:00 Tools
Hard Headed Woman 00:00 Tools
Roll Like The River 00:00 Tools
Tinker Street 00:00 Tools
Blue Velvet Skirt (Reprise) 00:00 Tools
(Interlude) Get On With It 00:00 Tools
Satellite 1. 00:00 Tools
Solo On 10th Avenue (Live) (Previously Unreleased) 00:00 Tools
Get on With It 00:00 Tools
Blue Velvet Skirt 00:00 Tools
Plane To England 00:00 Tools
Leave My Heart Alone 00:00 Tools
Seven Days [Original B-Side] 00:00 Tools
Seven Days (original B Side) 00:00 Tools
Runnig Gun Blues 00:00 Tools
Solo on 10th Avenue 00:00 Tools
China 00:00 Tools
I'd Give Anything to See You (Closing Title) 00:00 Tools
Love Me Tender (Live) (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Leave My Heart Alone (Live) (Original B Side) 00:00 Tools
Space Oddity 00:00 Tools
Let's Spend the Night Together 00:00 Tools
Seven Days [Alternate Take] 00:00 Tools
Stone Love (Soul Love) (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Sweet Dreamer - Live 00:00 Tools
Crazy Love (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Hey Grandma (Demo) 00:00 Tools
I'd Rather Be Me (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
The Girl Can't Help It 00:00 Tools
Life On Mars (Previously Unreleased) 00:00 Tools
Seven Days (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Running Gun Blues 00:00 Tools
Hard Life (Ballad Version) 00:00 Tools
Junkie (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Only After Dark/Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
The Width Of A Circle 00:00 Tools
Width Of A Circle 00:00 Tools
Woman (Alternative Take) (Previously Unreleased) 00:00 Tools
Takin' The Next Train (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Leave My Heart Alone [Live] 00:00 Tools
Here Comes the Night (feat. Mick Ronson) (Abbey Road Studios Remastered version) 00:00 Tools
The Empty Bed 00:00 Tools
slaughter on 10th ave (live) 00:00 Tools
Pain In The City (Previously Unreleased) 00:00 Tools
Dogs (French Girl) (Previously Unreleased) 00:00 Tools
Sorrow (feat. Mick Ronson) (Abbey Road Studios Remastered version) 00:00 Tools
28 Days Jam (Previously Unreleased) 00:00 Tools
All the Young Dudes [Live] 00:00 Tools
Slaugher On 10th Avenue (Live) (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud 00:00 Tools
Stone Love 00:00 Tools
Love Me Tender [Live] 00:00 Tools
Just Like This (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Seven Days (Original B Side) (Previously Unreleased 00:00 Tools
See Emily Play (feat. Mick Ronson) (Abbey Road Studios Remastered version) 00:00 Tools
I'd Give Anything To See You - Live 00:00 Tools
Darling Let's Have Another Baby 00:00 Tools
Slaughter On 10Th Avenue [Live] (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Rosalyn (feat. Mick Ronson) (Abbey Road Studios Remastered version) 00:00 Tools
Slaughter On 10th Avenue (Live) (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Leave My Heart Alone [Original B-Side][Live] 00:00 Tools
Hey Grandma (Live) 00:00 Tools
I Wish You Would (feat. Mick Ronson) (Abbey Road Studios Remastered version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Bring Me Down (feat. Mick Ronson) (Abbey Road Studios Remastered version) 00:00 Tools
Stone Love [Soul Love] (previously unreleased) 00:00 Tools
My Death 00:00 Tools
Seven Days (alternate) 00:00 Tools
Sweet Dreamer (live) 00:00 Tools
White Light White Heat (Live) 00:00 Tools
Leave My Heart Alone [Live] (Original "B" Side) 00:00 Tools
Crazy Love (Live) 00:00 Tools
Love Me Tender [Live] (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
One After Dark 00:00 Tools
Solo On 10Th Avenue [Live] (Previously Unreleased) 00:00 Tools
Seven Days (orginal 'B' side) 00:00 Tools
Friday on My Mind (feat. Mick Ronson) (Abbey Road Studios Remastered version) 00:00 Tools
Junkie (Live) 00:00 Tools
Solo on 10th Avenue [Live][#] 00:00 Tools
Oh! You Pretty Things - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
Play Don’t Worry 00:00 Tools
Changes - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
Hard Life (Live) 00:00 Tools
Where Have All the Good Times Gone (feat. Mick Ronson) (Abbey Road Studios Remastered version) 00:00 Tools
Takin' A Train (Live) 00:00 Tools
Pleasure Man-Hey Ma Get Papa 00:00 Tools
Shapes of Things (feat. Mick Ronson) (Abbey Road Studios Remastered version) 00:00 Tools
I'd Give Anything To See You (Live) 00:00 Tools
FBI (Live New York) 00:00 Tools
Angel №9 00:00 Tools
Stone Love (Soul Love) [bonus] 00:00 Tools
I'D RATHER BE ME (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED) 00:00 Tools
Ronno's Bar & Grill (Studio Outtake) 00:00 Tools
Slaughter on 10th Avenue [Live] 00:00 Tools
Everything's Alright (feat. Mick Ronson) (Abbey Road Studios Remastered version) 00:00 Tools
Is There Life On Mars? 00:00 Tools
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere (feat. Mick Ronson) 00:00 Tools
Life on Mars [#][*] 00:00 Tools
Once Bitten Twice Shy 00:00 Tools
I'd Give Anything To See You (Right Now) Demo 00:00 Tools
Life on Mars? - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
Solo On 10th Avenue [Live] 00:00 Tools
Just Like This (Live) 00:00 Tools
Crazy Love - Demo 00:00 Tools
Solo On 10th Avenue - Solo Guitar Sections (live, previously unreleased) 00:00 Tools
Hey Ma, Get Papa 00:00 Tools
I'd Give Anything To See You (Right Now) - Demo 00:00 Tools
Hard Life - Ballad Version 00:00 Tools
Solo on 10th Avenue [#][*] 00:00 Tools
Leave My Heart Alone [Live] (Original 'B' Side) 00:00 Tools
Darling Let's Have Another Baby (Live) 00:00 Tools
Pleasure man/Hey Ma Get Pa 00:00 Tools
FBI (Live Stockholm) 00:00 Tools
Pain In The City [bonus] 00:00 Tools
Takin' The Next Train - Demo 00:00 Tools
White Heat 00:00 Tools
I Can't Explain (feat. Mick Ronson) (Abbey Road Studios Remastered version) 00:00 Tools
Don`t Look Down 00:00 Tools
Stone Love(Soul Love) 00:00 Tools
Hard Life - Live 00:00 Tools
Ronno's Bar & Grill - Studio Outtake 00:00 Tools
Seven Days [Original B-Side][*] 00:00 Tools
Life On Mars [bonus] 00:00 Tools
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue [Live][*] 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed(10 Me Ne Andrei) 00:00 Tools
Solo On 10th Avenue [Live] [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Madman Across The Water - Original Version 00:00 Tools
Don't Look Down (Edit) 00:00 Tools
Leave My Heart Alone (live, original B-side) 00:00 Tools
Leave My Heart Alone [live, original b-side] [bonus] 00:00 Tools
Solo On 10th Avenue [live, prev.unreleased] [bonus] 00:00 Tools
Take A Long Line (Live) 00:00 Tools
I'd Give Anything 00:00 Tools
White Light-White Heat 00:00 Tools
I'd Rather Be Me [bonus] 00:00 Tools
Dogs (French Girl) [bonus] 00:00 Tools
Bastard 00:00 Tools
Junkie - Demo 00:00 Tools
Hand to Hold on to 00:00 Tools
08 solo slaughter on 10th avenue (live )(previously unreleased) 00:00 Tools
pleasure man he ma get pa 00:00 Tools
Leave My Heart Alone [Live][Original B-Side] 00:00 Tools
I'd Rather Be Me [bonus track] 00:00 Tools
Andy Warhol - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
Angel No. 9 (Live) 00:00 Tools
Ziggy Stardust - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
Stone Love (Soul Love) [bonus track] 00:00 Tools
Solo on 10th Avenue [#][Live] 00:00 Tools
Seven Days (Alternative Take) 00:00 Tools
28 Days Jam [bonus] 00:00 Tools
mick ronson - Only After Dark 00:00 Tools
Just Like This - Demo 00:00 Tools
Five Years - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
Eight Line Poem - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
(I'm Just A) Junkie For Your L 00:00 Tools
Hey Grandma - Demo 00:00 Tools
Woman [Alternate Take][#][*] 00:00 Tools
Seven Days(Original B Side) 00:00 Tools
Just Another Night 00:00 Tools
Leave My Heart Alone [Live] [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Queen Bitch - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed (Lo Me Ne Andrei) 00:00 Tools
Love Me Tender [Live] [Bonus] 00:00 Tools
Slaughter On 10th Avenue [live] [bonus] 00:00 Tools
Trouble With You, Trouble With Me (Live) 00:00 Tools
Don't Look Down (Live) 00:00 Tools
Kooks - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
Growing Up and I’m Fine 00:00 Tools
The Bewlay Brothers - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
Seven Days [Alternate Take][#][*] 00:00 Tools
Love Me Tender [*][Live] 00:00 Tools
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue [*][Live] 00:00 Tools
LIFE ON MARS ( PREVIOUSLY UNREALEASED ) 00:00 Tools
Seven Days [original b-side] [previously unreleased] 00:00 Tools
Dogs(French Girl) 00:00 Tools
Love Me Tender [Live] - Bonus Track, Previuosly Unreleased 00:00 Tools
11 slaughter on 10th avenue (live) (bonus track) 00:00 Tools
09 leave my heart alone (live) (origanal b side) 00:00 Tools
Leave My Heart Alone [Live] - Bonus Track, Original "B" Side 00:00 Tools
Dogs [French Girl] 00:00 Tools
Billy Poster 00:00 Tools
The Man Who Sold The World - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
Like a Rolling Stone (feat. David Bowie) 00:00 Tools
Growing Up And Im Fine 00:00 Tools
Soul Love - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
FBI - Live 00:00 Tools
Junkie - Live 00:00 Tools
Teen Magazine Interview 00:00 Tools
Is There Life On Mars 00:00 Tools
Quicksand - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
Life On Mars [previously unreleased] 00:00 Tools
Irene Wilde 00:00 Tools
I'd Rather Be Me(Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Slaughter on 10th Avenue [Live] - Bonus Track, Previuosly Unreleased 00:00 Tools
Slaughter on 10th Avenue [Live] [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Stone Love(Soul Love)(Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Life`s A River 00:00 Tools
Slaughter on 10th Avenue [Live][*] 00:00 Tools
I'd Give Anything to See You (Right Now) 00:00 Tools
Walk On The Wild Side 00:00 Tools
Dogs (French Girl) [previously unreleased] 00:00 Tools
Suffragette City - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
Moonage Daydream - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
Pleasure Man,Hey Ma Get Papa 00:00 Tools
Starman - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
Fill Your Heart - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
Growing Up & I'm Fine 00:00 Tools
Pain In The City [previously unreleased] 00:00 Tools
Belgique Blue 00:00 Tools
Ronno's Bar And Gril (Studio Outtake) 00:00 Tools
The Girl Can´t Help It 00:00 Tools
Song for Bob Dylan - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
All The Way From Memphis 00:00 Tools
Star - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
Slaughter On 10th Avenue [Live 00:00 Tools
I'd Give Anything To See You ( 00:00 Tools
I´m The One 00:00 Tools
Danger List 00:00 Tools
Angel #9 00:00 Tools
Play Don´t Worry 00:00 Tools
im the one 05:07 Tools
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue [Live] 00:00 Tools
Seven Days [bonus track] 00:00 Tools
Hang on to Yourself - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
Mick Ronson - Empty bed 00:00 Tools
Get On With It (Interlude) 00:00 Tools
Lady Stardust - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
Solo On 10th Avenue [Live] (Pr 00:00 Tools
Take a long time 00:00 Tools
Mick Ronson - Angel No 9 00:00 Tools
Rock 'n' Roll Suicide - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
Angeline 00:00 Tools
White Night-White Heat 00:00 Tools
Like A Rolling Stone (David Bowie vocal) 00:00 Tools
10 love me tender (live)(bonus track) 00:00 Tools
28 Days Jam [previously unreleased] 00:00 Tools
Solo on 10th Avenue - Solo Guitar Sections 00:00 Tools
Like A Rolling Stone (with David Bowie) 00:00 Tools
Crazy Love - Live 00:00 Tools
It Ain't Easy - Mick Ronson 00:00 Tools
Ronno's Bar And Grill - Out-take 00:00 Tools
Thundering Hearts 00:00 Tools
Solo Slaughter on 10th Avenue (live )(previously unreleased) 00:00 Tools
GROWING UP AND I´M FINE 00:00 Tools
Can You Take It 00:00 Tools
Hey Grandma - Live 00:00 Tools
Trouble With You, Trouble With Me 00:00 Tools
Woman(Alternative Take) 00:00 Tools
Empty (Io Me Ne Andrei) 00:00 Tools
Leave My Heart Alone (Bonus Track, Live) 00:00 Tools
Solo On 10th Avenue (Previously Unreleased, Live) 00:00 Tools
Indian Summer 00:00 Tools
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Michael "Mick" Ronson (26 May 1946 – 29 April 1993) was an English guitarist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer. He is best known for his work with David Bowie, as one of The Spiders from Mars. Ronson was a busy session musician who recorded with artists as diverse as Bowie, Ian Hunter, Morrissey, as well as engagements as a sideman in touring bands with performers such as Bob Dylan and Van Morrison. He also recorded several solo albums, the most notable example of which was Slaughter on 10th Avenue, which reached #9 on the UK Albums Chart. Ronson played with various bands after his time with Bowie. He was named the 64th greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone. Michael Ronson was born in Beverley Road, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, in 1946, then moved to Greatfield, Hull. As a child he was trained classically to play piano, recorder, violin, and (later) the harmonium. He initially wanted to be a cellist, but moved to guitar upon discovering the music of Duane Eddy, whose sound on the bass notes of his guitar sounded to Ronson similar to that of the cello.[3] He joined his first band, The Mariners, in November 1963, when he was just 17. His stage debut with The Mariners was in support of the Keith Herd Band at Brough Village Hall, a gig for which the band traveled 35 miles and got paid 10 shillings (50p). While Ronson was working with The Mariners, another local Hull group – The Crestas – recruited him on the advice of The Mariners' bassist John Griffiths. With Ronson on board the Crestas gained a solid reputation, making regular appearances at local halls: Mondays at the Halfway House in Hull, Thursdays at the Ferryboat Hotel, Fridays at the Regal Ballroom in Beverley, and Sundays at the Duke of Cumberland in North Ferriby. In 1965, Ronson left The Crestas to try his luck in London. He took a part time job as a mechanic, and before long, he teamed up with a band called The Voice, replacing Miller Anderson. Soon afterward, Crestas' drummer Dave Bradfield made the trip down to London when the Voice's drummer left. After playing just a few dates with the group, Ronson and Bradfield returned from a weekend in Hull to find their gear piled at their flat and a note explaining that the rest of the group had gone to The Bahamas. Ronson stayed in London and teamed up briefly with a soul band called The Wanted, before eventually returning to Hull. In 1966, Ronson joined Hull's top local band, The Rats, joining singer Benny Marshall, bassist Geoff Appleby, and drummer Jim Simpson (who was subsequently replaced by Clive Taylor and then John Cambridge). The group played the local circuit, and made a few unsuccessful trips to London and Paris. In 1967 The Rats recorded the one-off psychedelic track, "The Rise And Fall Of Bernie Gripplestone" at Fairview Studios in Hull, and can be heard on the 2008 release Front Room Masters – Fairview Studios 1966–1973.[5] 1968 saw the band change their name briefly to Treacle and book another recording session at Fairview Studios in 1969, before reverting to their original name. Around this time, Ronson was recommended by Rick Kemp to play guitar on Michael Chapman's Fully Qualified Survivor album.[4] When John Cambridge left The Rats to join his former Hullaballoos bandmate Mick Wayne in Junior's Eyes, he was replaced by Mick "Woody" Woodmansey. In November 1969, the band recorded a final session at Fairview, taping "Telephone Blues" and "Early in Spring". In March 1970, during the recording sessions for Elton John's album Tumbleweed Connection, Ronson played guitar on the track "Madman Across the Water". This song however was not included in the original release. The recording featuring Ronson was released on the 1992 compilation album, Rare Masters, and the 1995 reissue of Tumbleweed Connection. Early in 1970, Cambridge came back to Hull in search of Ronson, intent upon recruiting him for a new David Bowie backing band called The Hype. He found Ronson marking out a rugby pitch, one of his duties as a Parks Department gardener for Hull City Council. Having failed in his earlier attempts in London, Ronson was reluctant, but eventually agreed to accompany Cambridge to a meeting with Bowie. Two days later, on 5 February, Ronson made his debut with Bowie on John Peel's national BBC Radio 1 show. The Hype played their first gig at The Roundhouse on 22 February with a line-up that included Bowie, Ronson, Cambridge, and producer/bassist Tony Visconti. The group dressed up in superhero costumes, with Bowie as Rainbowman, Visconti as Hypeman, Ronson as Gangsterman, and Cambridge as Cowboyman. Also on the bill that day were Bachdenkel, The Groundhogs and Caravan. The following day they performed at the Streatham Arms in London under the pseudonym of 'Harry The Butcher'. They also performed on 28 February at the Basildon Arts Lab experimental music club at the Basildon Arts Centre in Essex, billed as 'David Bowie's New Electric Band'. Also on the bill were High Tide, Overson and Iron Butterfly. Strawbs were due to perform but were replaced by Bowie's New Electric Band. John Cambridge departed on 30 March, again replaced by Woody Woodmansey. In April 1970, Ronson, Woodmansey, and Visconti commenced recording Bowie's The Man Who Sold The World album. During the sessions for The Man Who Sold The World, the trio of Ronson, Visconti, and Woodmansey – still under The Hype moniker – signed to Vertigo Records. The group recruited Benny Marshall from The Rats as vocalist, and entered the studio to record an album. By the time a single appeared, The Hype had been renamed Ronno. "4th Hour of My Sleep" was released on Vertigo to an indifferent reception in January 1971. The song was written by Tucker Zimmerman. The B-side was a Ronson/Marshall composition called "Powers of Darkness". The Ronno album was never completed. Bowie's backing ensemble, which now included Trevor Bolder who had replaced Visconti on bass guitar and keyboardist Rick Wakeman, were used in the recording of Hunky Dory. The departure of Visconti also meant that Ronson, with Bowie, took over the arrangements, whilst Ken Scott co-produced with Bowie. Hunky Dory was perhaps their most collaborative album, which the sleeve notes acknowledged. It was this band, minus Wakeman, that became known as The Spiders From Mars from the title of the next Bowie album. Again, Ronson was a key part of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, providing string arrangements and various instrumentation, as well as playing lead guitar. Ronson and Bowie achieved some notoriety over the concerts promoting this album, when Bowie would simulate fellatio on Ronson's guitar as he played. Ronson's guitar and arranging during the Spiders from Mars era provided much of the underpinning for later punk rock musicians. In 1972 Ronson provided a strings-and-brass arrangement for the song "Sea Diver" on the Bowie-produced All The Young Dudes album for Mott The Hoople, and co-produced Lou Reed's album Transformer with Bowie, playing lead guitar and piano on the song "Perfect Day". Again with Bowie, he re-recorded and produced the track "The Man Who Sold The World" for Lulu, released as a single in the UK, and played on a few tracks on the Dana Gillespie album Weren't Born a Man. Ronson appeared on the 1972 country rock album Bustin' Out by Pure Prairie League, where he undertook string ensemble arrangements and contributed guitar and vocals on several tracks most notably "Angel #9" which reappeared on his solo LP "Play Don't Worry." His guitar work was next heard on Bowie's Aladdin Sane and 1973's covers album Pin Ups. However, he was absent from the subsequent Diamond Dogs album. Bowie said in a 1994 interview that "Mick was the perfect foil for the Ziggy character. He was very much a salt-of-the-earth type, the blunt northerner with a defiantly masculine personality, so that what you got was the old-fashioned Yin and Yang thing. As a rock duo, I thought we were every bit as good as Mick and Keith or Axl and Slash. Ziggy and Mick were the personification of that rock n roll dualism." After leaving Bowie's entourage after the "Farewell Concert" in 1973, Ronson released three solo albums. His solo debut Slaughter on 10th Avenue, featured a version of Elvis Presley's, "Love Me Tender", as well as Ronson's most famous solo track, "Only After Dark". In addition, his sister, Margaret (Maggi) Ronson, provided the backing vocals for the set. Between this and the 1975 follow-up, Ronson had a short-lived stint with Mott the Hoople.He then became a long-time collaborator with Mott's former leader Ian Hunter, commencing with the album Ian Hunter(UK #21) and featuring the UK Singles Chart #14 hit "Once Bitten, Twice Shy", including a spell touring as the Hunter Ronson Band. In 1980, the live album Welcome to the Club was released, including a couple of Ronson contributions, although it also contained a few studio-based tracks – one of which was a Hunter/Ronson composition. In 1974, Ronson secured the #2 spot from a reader's poll in Creem magazine as the best guitarist that year (with Jimmy Page taking first place, and Eric Clapton in third place after Ronson. Ronson contributed guitar to the title track of the 1976 David Cassidy release Getting It in the Street. Roger Daltrey employed Ronson's guitar on his 1977 solo release One of the Boys. In 1979 Ronson and Hunter produced and played on the Ellen Foley debut album, Night Out, with "We Belong To The Night" and the hit single "What's a Matter Baby." In 1982, Ronson worked with John Mellencamp on his American Fool album, and in particular the song "Jack & Diane". Both "Jack & Diane" and American Fool topped their respective US Billboard charts. In 1990, Ronson again collaborated with Hunter on the album Yui Orta, this time getting joint credit, as "Hunter/Ronson". In 1993, he again appeared on a Bowie album, Black Tie White Noise, playing on the track "I Feel Free", originally recorded by Cream. Ronson and Bowie had already covered this track live twenty years earlier, whilst touring as Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. His second and third solo albums were Play Don't Worry in 1975, and Heaven and Hull in 1994. The latter set was only partly completed at the time of Ronson's death, and was released posthumously. Artists involved with the album included John Mellencamp, Joe Elliott, Ian Hunter, David Bowie, Chrissie Hynde, and Martin Chambers. Besides Bowie and Hunter, Ronson went on to work as a musician, songwriter and record producer with many other acts including Slaughter & The Dogs (who took their name from the Ronson album Slaughter on 10th Avenue), Morrissey, The Wildhearts, The Rich Kids, Elton John, John Mellencamp, T-Bone Burnett, Dalbello, Benny Mardones, Iron City Houserockers and the Italian band Moda. He did not restrict his influence behind the recording desk to just established acts. His production work appears on albums by more obscure artists, such as Payolas, Phil Rambow and Los Illegals and The Mundanes. Ronson produced The Visible Targets, a Seattle based group, on their 1983 five track EP, "Autistic Savant". Ronson was also a member of Bob Dylan's "Rolling Thunder Revue" live band,[12] and can be seen both on and off-stage in the film of the tour.[17] He also made a connection with Roger McGuinn during this time, which led to his producing and contributing guitar and arrangements to McGuinn's 1976 solo album Cardiff Rose. In 1982, he participated on lead guitar in a short lived band with Hilly Michaels on drums and Les Fradkin on bass guitar. One of their recordings from this group, Spare Change, appeared on the Fradkin's 2006 album, Goin' Back. In 1987, Ronson made an appearance on a record by The Toll. Ronson played lead on the band's song, "Stand in Winter", from the album The Price of Progression. In 1992 he produced Morrissey's album, Your Arsenal. The same year, Ronson's final high profile live performance was his appearance at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. He played on "All the Young Dudes" with Bowie and Hunter; and "Heroes" with Bowie. Ronson's final recorded session was as a guest on the 1993 Wildhearts album Earth vs the Wildhearts, where he played the guitar solo on the song "My Baby is a Headfuck". Ronson died of liver cancer on 29 April 1993 at the age of 46, survived by his wife Suzy, and his children Nicholas, Lisa (with wife, Suzi Ronson), and Joakim (with Carola Westerlund). Ronson was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His funeral was held in a Mormon chapel in London on 6 May. In his memory, the Mick Ronson Memorial Stage was constructed in Queens Gardens in his hometown of Hull. There is also a street named after him on Bilton Grange Estate, not far from where he lived. Throughout his career with Bowie, Ronson used a 1968 Gibson Les Paul customised "Black Beauty". In the post-Bowie era, Ronson tended towards a blue, rosewood-board Fender Telecaster; he did not, however, limit himself to these two guitars. Ronson also used Marshall 200 amps (not to be confused with a Marshall Major) that he nicknamed "The Pig". Ronson also used a MKI Tone Bender for his signature sound during the Spiders from Mars era. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.