Jon Brewer on Jonesy's Dukebox talking about Mick Ronson deserving Writing Credits with Bowie

[@virginiaviola5097]

I’ve always been grateful to Freddie that his tragic passing put Mick and David together on the stage again...it’s there for all posterity to see, kids who came later and missed the Spiders years, just how brilliant Mick Ronson was. He was integral to Lou Reed’s Transformer album, and he gave John Mellencamp his huge breakthrough hit with Jack and Diane...but he wasn’t a front man, and he didn’t want to be a front man, he just wanted to play in a band, and he did that with Ian Hunter.

[@SandraSmith-vb5pf]

Bowie Undoubtedly 💰🤩💰Should Have Understood 🌬💨💨💨🤍🤍🤍

[@711honved]

Mick lit the blue touch paper that sent Bowie's career into orbit. Did he get any credit? Nah, of course not!

[@deletebilderberg]

Bowie didn’t just screw Mick. Bowie screwed Slick, EVERYONE.

[@ManicMovesDrowsyDreams]

So it was DeFries (sp.) who was behind those two great solo albums? I really enjoy the hell out of those two 70s solo albums but without KZbin probably would have never come across em

[@virginiaviola5097]

Defries was a f*ckin thief. Bowie has his final word on that on Lazarus...Main Man Management basically sucked it’s artists dry.

[@ManicMovesDrowsyDreams]

@@virginiaviola5097 terrible. Well, thanks for the answer.

[@virginiaviola5097]

@@ManicMovesDrowsyDreams yeah, for Bowie it was the mid ‘70’s..when he discovered after making all his albums prior to Low, toured extensively and had made The Man Who Fell To Earth, that not only had he made no money, he was in debt up to his eyeballs to Main Man...when explaining his predicament to Lennon, Lennon asked why on earth wasn’t he managing himself? Lennon helped him out on Young Americans, then Bowie got Iggy Pop, and they decamped to Berlin..where Bowie also dumped Angie..another Main Man player. Took him years to sort that mess out.