Mick Ronson - Stone Love (Soul Love)

From the bonus cd with the remastered 1997 release of Play Don't Worry.
Written by David Bowie.
With the greatest respect.
Rest In Peace.

[@artvankampen8993]

Bow down.

[@amyl1479]

Ronno!!!! Best version!!!

[@pleiadian13]

OMG that is incredible love action between two of the world's greatest musical artists. I'm blushing and tearing up!

[@dy95dy95]

Simply fantastic!

[@ripetomato9629]

Such lovely fun.

[@peterfriedman2830]

Ok, this is undoubtedly just about one of the most amazingly unique hybrid recordings of all time: a bouncy Reggae/Ska beat strummed on a folky acoustic guitar, Country music-style slide guitar (with a very pedal steel-kind of feel) and Bowie's most tragi-poetic lyrics from one of his Ziggy Stardust album's most serious, least glam-rock tracks. And as if that wasn't enough, the incredible guitar jam at the end is just out of this world.

[@stevenhaywood1195]

Oh yes indeed. Very good version cttcaegoaktd

[@peterfriedman2830]

@@stevenhaywood1195 This is so different to Bowie's version! You could imagine, if David had heard it and liked it and said, 'hey, Ronno, I really love this treatment of the track, let's cut a fresh take of it with me doing the vocals'. That would definitely have produced yet another awesome track. The timelessly powerful lyrics, combined with a melody line which somehow manages to lose nothing in terms of catchiness and power despite being performed in such a totally different genre, shows (to me at least) that this song undoubtedly deserves much more attention than it has ever received in terms of covers.

[@stevenhaywood1195]

@@peterfriedman2830, it would have been great if Mick had put together a third album in 1976 of these demos and songs he recorded for his first two albums that were not on the those two albums. This would not prevent him of course from recording the superb "Just Like This" album in December of that year, of course. Regarding the two versions of the song, well it is great we have both, as this song has been included on so many Mick Ronson compilations. cttcaegoaktd 😛😛😛😛😛😛😛😛😛

[@lotstodo]

So beautiful .

[@reedreed8778]

Oh my fucking god ! Thank you !!

[@seanhammond4034]

The Ronno Touch !

[@telbell6414]

Wow!

[@ixis99]

wow!

[@Alianger]

Ronson inventing ska music.

[@schwinglow]

10 years after ska was invented, some feat eh?

[@Alianger]

schwinglow from mars with gifts

[@stevenhaywood6027]

Well I love the famous version with David Bowie singing on Ziggy Stardust, but Mick's version is great too. Love Mick's voice! sttgaegoaktd

[@BloggStandard]

and Trevor sticks the bass in the middle of their bromancing!

[@azzaz1]

Red Rhodes on steel guitar!

[@zack1138]

+azzaz1 Sounds absolutely beautiful

[@mmmcomfy]

Is it? I was thinking David Mansfield. Along with Ronno, he was on Dylan's Rolling Thunder Tour where he played pedal steel. This "demo" (or outtake) was recorded with members of Guam, the Rolling Thunder backing band, around late '75. The clincher for me is that Mansfield and Ronno played (Ronno also produced) on Roger (Byrds) McGuinn's '76 album Cardiff Rose (McGuinn was also on Rolling Thunder) and there's a demo/outtake from the sessions of McGuinn doing 'Soul Love' - kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3u1h2OFatRjZ6c - in a very similar arrangement to this.

[@robstoner5873]

Wrong! It's David Mansfield.

[@Awaitingonyouall]

2:52 Lmao the relaxing music while Bowie does this

[@JB-sb2uw]

That works

[@susannesahakian8727]

I'm trying to figure out which version is better and I cant.

[@stevenhaywood1195]

They are both good. cttgaegoaktd

[@rjnuzzi1648]

Great Bowie chord sequence & bridge... terribly underrated... mostly because it's a bit 'doo wop' in its opening verses, my musical guess

[@madmichaeldennis7870]

NO SHUT!!!!

[@schwinglow]

?

[@widiandritalempong4405]

Is this bowie or rons9n?

[@schwinglow]

The clue is in the title. Mick