David Bowie: "Bowie Inspires Ronson!" Cover (1974)

David Bowie’s "Bowie Inspires Ronson!", a cover and one-page article in Melody Maker, January 26, 1974.

MICK RONSON is following in the footsteps of David Bowie and is set to do two dates at London's Rain- bow next month.

He will play the theatre on February 22 and 23, and it's expected that Bowie, for whom he's been back-up- man and guitarist in the past two years, will be on stage with him.

Thus Ronson, who's managed by Mainman, the same company as Bowie, becomes the centre of a large campaign designed to establish him as a solo artist in his own right.

His first solo single, the Elvis Presley song "Love Me Tender", is released this Friday (January 26), and it's to be followed in February by an album whose working title so far is "Slaughter On Tenth Avenue".

Rushed

Mainman and RCA are so anxious to make him a star that copies of the album are being rushed from the States so that the release date coincides. And it's highly likely that a tour of the provinces will follow the London dates.

This tour was apparently arranged before Christmas, but it had to be pulled out be- cause of insufficient organisation. Bowie has had a large hand in Ronson's career-building. He has written three of the six lyrics on the album.

The track listings are: "Growing Up Anc I'm So Fine", a Bowie song; " Pleasure Man (Ronson and S. Richardson); "I'm The One (Annette Peacock); "Music Is Letha (music by L. Battisti, English lyrics by Bowie);;" Hey Ma, Get Papa" (Ronson, Bowie): "Slaughter On Tenth Avenue" a four-minute instrumental); and "Only After Dark" (Ronson and S. Richardson). The last track is also on the flip of his new single See singles reviews, page 14.