soundsof71:

moredarkthanshark:

David Bowie and Mick Ronson, 1973

The 1980 Floor Show, photo and color edit by Terry O’Neill

linkermccarty:

David Bowie and Mick Ronson

night-spell:

Lift Off with Ayshea (Granada Television for ITV), London, June 15, 1972

bowieinmotion:

Queen Bitch on Top of the Pops (1972)

bowieinmotion:

Starman on Top of the Pops (1972)

soundsof71:

Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars in one of their first shoots, by Brian Ward. 

touchingcloseto94:

Sweet head! David and Mick at Hard Rock, Manchester - September 2, 1972.

© Mick Rock

stardustschild:

“If it wasn’t for Mick, who knows? There might have been no Ziggy Stardust,” said Visconti. “I hate to say things like that because nobody really knows, but he was so important.”

bowietrackbytrack:

Track 105: I Feel Free (Live at Kingston Polytechnic)

I Feel Free is a song by late ‘60s psychedelic-blues legends, Cream. Bowie and the Spiders covered the tune during the early gigs of the first UK leg of the Ziggy Stardust tour (29 January – 18 July ’72). A version exists on the earliest recording of we have of the show, a tape of the Kingston Polytechnic gig from 6 May (more of which a bit later) and this track eventually appeared on RarestOneBowie. The Spiders version is killer – and Ronson, Woodmansey and Bolder take centre stage for a wild and riotous jam. Ronson rips it to shreds. The solo screams and soars, growls and roars over the manic and freeform trajectory laid down by the rhythm section. This interlude will – in later shows – be incorporated into The Width of a Circle, which will replace I Feel Free. This cover, however, will return some twenty-one years later on the Black Tie White Noise album, again featuring Ronson, playing with Bowie for the first time since 1973…

‘I Feel Free’: Track 12 of Live at Kingston Polytechnic. Recorded 6 May 1972. Written by Pete Brown and Jack Bruce. Available on RarestOneBowie.

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