Back in the day, when a lead singer got left the band that made his name, he didn’t take a whole lot of time worrying about what he was going to do next.
Nope, usually, he grabbed the nearest available guitar player and just got on with it.
In the case of Ian Hunter, who left Mott The Hoople in December 1974, that guitar player just happened to be Mick Ronson — who had played on a few classic David Bowie albums — and by April 1975, Hunter’s self-titled solo album was in the record stores, anchored by its classic opening track, “Once Bitten Twice Shy.”
[Read more…] about Certain Songs #667: Ian Hunter – “Once Bitten Twice Shy”