Mick Ronson

Mick Ronson, Billy Porter.
Billy porter is from Mick´s second solo album Play Don´t Worry 1975.
His first Slaughter On 10th Avenue 1974 and Play Don´t Worry are brilliant Gam Rock at its best.They are lost treasures and you need them in your collection now!!
The single Billy Porter should have been massive, it was played on Radio Trent all the time, another radio hit as they call them. I also love the b-side Seven Days which wasnt on the album so iv´e included that too.
Mick Ronson is famous for being in the Spiders From Mars,David Bowie´s backing band,but he was much more than that, a great arranger, listen to Lou Reed´s Transformer album. He worked with Ian Hunter on and off through his career and was a member of Mott The Hoople for a short while. He also toured with Bob Dylan and produced many artist´s over the years, The Rich Kids, John Cougar Mellencamp and Morrissey´s Your Arsnal in 1992.
Mick was diagnosed with liver cancer in 1991 died 1993.
He was in the middle of his last album Heaven And Hull. It was finished off with help of his friends and released in 1994. A good album with Ian Hunter, Joe Eliiot, John Cougar Mellencamp, Chrissy Hynde and David Bowie.




Billy Porter
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Seven Days
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