LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 27, 2020…ON THIS DATE IN 1979 IAN HUNTER, THE FORMER LEAD SINGER OF “MOTT THE HOOPLE”, RELEASED HIS MOST SUCCESSFUL SOLO ALBUM ‘YOU’RE NEVER ALONE WITH A SCHIZOPHRENIC’. THE TITLE WAS CO-PRODUCER MICK RONSON’S IDEA THAT HE HIMSELF PLANNED ON USING FOR ONE OF HIS SOLO ALBUMS. HUNTER LOVED THE TITLE SO MUCH, HE OFFERED RONSON CO-WRITING CREDITS ON THE SONG ‘JUST ANOTHER NIGHT’ JUST TO USE ON HIS RECORD. THE ALBUM CONTAINED SOME GREAT TRACKS INCLUDING ‘CLEVELAND ROCKS’ ‘BASTARD’ ‘SHIPS’ AND ‘JUST ANOTHER NIGHT.’ LATER BARRY MANILOW EVEN COVERED THE SONG ‘SHIPS’ WHICH BECAME A TOP TEN HIT FOR MANILOW. THIS SONG HAS SUCH A GREAT GROOVE TO IT WITH THE GREAT MICK RONSON ON GUITAR, THIS IS ‘BASTARD’