Mick Ronson: Last News

Liverpool in 2015 and Belfast in 2021, the latter of which saw natives Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol and composer Hannah Peel named as official patrons of the city.Hull now aims to be the fourth city to claim the title, after its council cabinet signed off on a five-year plan to boost music in the city. They consulted 1200 people as part of their “far-reaching” planning process, with councillor Rob Pritchard arguing that it would offer the city “a real direction in which to move our cultural scene forward” (via BBC).The council have said that their application will follow the publication of the city’s first music plan, to be published early in 2025.

David Bowie performing ‘Starman’ during the Ziggy Stardust tour has been uncovered. Check it out below.In 2019, footage of Bowie’s first TV appearance as Ziggy Stardust was unearthed after it was presumed lost for 47 years.

David Bowie’s widow Iman has shared images of a previously unseen painting that the musician created in 2014 – check it out below.The only previous sighting of the painting in question had been as a partially-obscured backdrop to a series of portraits of Bowie by the photographer Jimmy King at around the same time.The abstract painting is dazzlingly vibrant splash of yellow and blue and appears to be personally signed by the music legend, who passed away in January 2016.See the images shared by Iman here: In 2021, another painting by Bowie that was bought for just £3 fetched over £60,000 at auction. The piece dated back to 1997 and was part of a series of 47 portraits that Bowie worked on around that time.In other Bowie news, his 1974 album ‘Diamond Dogs’ was reissued in May to mark its 50th anniversary.

Kinky Friedman — the Texas-raised musician, writer, satirist, dog lover, gubernatorial candidate and overall provocateur — died after a battle with Parkinson’s on Thursday at his Echo Hill Ranch in TX, according to a post on his X account. He was 79.

David Bowie‘s lead guitarist, he joined the British rock band The Rats in 1966.Ronson then went on to play on iconic and influential albums such as Bowie’s 1972 concept album ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’ and 1973’s ‘Aladdin Sane’.He went on to work with massive rock icons such as Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and more. Ronson passed in 1993 at the age of 46 after battling liver cancer.Titled “The Mischief of Rats”, the sculpture trail is set to be installed in April 2025 and will be open to the public starting in May 2025 for three months.According to The Hull Story, businesses and organisations who are local to Hull have been invited to sponsor a rat for £4,500 – which will help cover the costs of developing, creating, managing and promoting the trail.The sculptures of the rates are set to go up for auction in September 2025, in hopes of raising up to £250,000 for the charity The Daisy Appeal.Rick Welton, one of the project directors, shared: “This is the most radical animal sculpture trail yet,” (per the BBC).

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Considering the vast number of books published every year about David Bowie — or, for that matter, the Beatles, Bob Dylan and Prince — a new one had better have either fresh info or fresh insights. Thankfully, Suzi Ronson’s “Me and Mr.