MVD Entertainment Group
will be guiding documentary filmmaker Joe Brewer’s Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson
Story, a look at the life and career of legendary guitarist Mick
Ronson, to market on Friday, Oct. 27, as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack product
offering.
The guitar work on “Jean
Genie,” “The Man Who Sold the World” and “Aladdin Sane,” to name just a few of
the Bowie/Ronson collaborations, are all Ronson. Joe Brewer got access, not only to rare
clips and previously unseen footage, but he seems have been able to wrangle
interviews with nearly every major artist who ever worked with Ronson.
In addition to vintage
interviews with the late David Bowie and Mick Ronson himself (who died of
cancer in 1993), Brewer has interview sessions with Bowie’s one-time wife,
Angie, and such artists as Lou Reed, Mott the Hoople’s Ian Hunter, the Sex
Pistols’ Glen Matlock, Queen’s Roger Taylor, Dana Gillespie, Earl Slick, Rick
Wakeman and Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott, as well as producer Laurence Myers,
Cherry Vanilla (who handled PR for Bowie and Ronson), tour manager Tony Zanetta
and more.
These session are nicely
blended with footage — vintage interviews, home movies and live concert
performances — to weave a marvelous story about the career and influence of
Ronson in the world of music.
This is a must for all
music fans, especially those who follow all things David Bowie.
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