Mick Ronson : Slaughter on 10th Avenue (Expanded Edition)

TAKE ME TO YOUR HEART

FOR IT'S THERE 

THAT I BELONG

AND WE'LL NEVER PART

 Slaughter on 10th Avenue

 is the 

debut album

 by English

 guitarist

 Mick Ronson 

then-guitarist of 

David Bowie's 

backing band

 the Spiders from Mars. 

It was released in 

February 1974

 by RCA Records.

For inspiration, 

Ronson relied on

 Annette Peacock's 

1972 album

 I'm the One; 

he used the title track 

and her 

arrangement of

 Elvis Presley's

 "Love Me Tender". 

Two songs were

 co-written by 

Ronson

 with 

Scott Richardson, 

who had 

been involved

 in the Ann Arbor

 music scene 

since the mid-'60s

 and came to 

prominence

 as lead singer 

of the SRC. 

Richardson

 was brought into

 the Bowie camp

 by Angie Bowie, 

who met him

 through

 Ron Asheton

 of the Stooges. 

During the recording

 of the album, 

Ronson considered 

putting together a 

new band 

with Richardson,

 Aynsley Dunbar, 

and 

Trevor Bolder,

 to be called

 the Fallen Angels, 

but plans fell through

Reception

Dave Thompson of 

AllMusic

 praised the album,

 putting it on par with

 "any of Bowie's own" 

and describing it as a 

"snapshot of a special time, 

when the 

triple disciplines 

of 

glam, rock,

 and 

'Precious Art' 

slammed into

 one another."

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