“Anyway, it’s great to be together again and out [Bowie] goes to a thunderous welcome. He comes off shaking like a leaf, and we go to the final deafening crash of the tape. He’s watching and sussing all the way through. It will be him tomorrow night. Half of him’s with us and half’s with the audience. Come to think of it, that’s the way I am. Mick [Ralphs, guitarist] does a blinding solo in Ready For Love and all doubt disappears after Angeline – it’s the feeling, ‘We’ve got ’em.” Off we come; beers go down in 30 seconds and then the wait for the right time to go back on. We hurriedly confer and decide to do Dudes and then Honky Tonk Woman. The chaos rises higher as Mott becomes six – Dave thowing out the harmonies with Mick and Pete [Overend Watts, bassist]. Dudes finishes, we acknowledge the guy who wrote our half-million seller, and then we finish on our own. A great gig – not a thing to moan about. That’s two in a row – I can’t believe it!”

Ian Hunter (29 November 1972), Diary Of A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star (1974)