“It was Overend Watts who first noticed Mick Ronson and David Bowie. He was always raving on to us about The Man Who Sold The World album. He had a copy of it, which he played in the group car when we were going to gigs. He was saying what a great guitarist Mick was, how he didn’t play like anyone else and had a great style of his own. It was Watts who got us involved with David, after the group split up over an unpleasant nadir in our career in Switzerland. We all came back to England, he rang up Bowie and asked if there was a job going. There wasn’t, of course, but Bowie said ‘Why? What’s happened?’ Then the offer of help came.”

Dale Griffin (July 1999), cited in Mick Ronson: The Spider With The Platinum Hair (2003), p.68