A guitarist first and foremost, in 1969 Ronson began a fruitful collaboration
with David Bowie, who would make him a rock legend as the bandleader of his
Spiders From Mars during the Ziggy Stardust era. Ronson arranged most of Bowie's
albums and worked with him on Lou Reed's Transformer. In 1974, he released two
solo albums (Slaughter On The 10th Avenue and Play Don't Worry), which met with
little success, despite a few Bowie songs. He returned to the stage to accompany
Mott The Hoople, Ian Hunter, Bob Dylan and then Van Morrison. He then turned to
production, working with Roger ...