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THE COLLABORATORS<br />

<strong>Bowie</strong>/Ronson performing ‘Starman’ on Top Of The Pops,<br />

London, July 1972.<br />

Mick Ronson<br />

High-profile collaborations with Mick Jagger,<br />

Freddie Mercury and Tina Turner aside, <strong>Bowie</strong> has<br />

rarely allowed another figure to share the limelight<br />

with him on anything like equal terms. Only Mick<br />

Ronson, an unassuming ex-gardener from Hull who<br />

could never quite grasp the appeal of grown men<br />

dressed in satin and tat, was allowed an occasional<br />

glimpse of the action.<br />

On stage, Ronno was a prop – a chicken-headed<br />

male tart for his master to feign fellatio with, a guitarhero<br />

who soloed endlessly while Madame Twinky

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