Ronno - "4th Hour of my Sleep" b/w "Powers of Darkness" 45 1971

Before his work with David Bowie as one of The Spiders from Mars, Mick Ronson was a session musician. He was classically trained to play piano, violin, and recorder, and later, the harmonium. He initially wanted to be a cellist, but moved to guitar when he discovered the music of Duane Eddy.
He began his career with bands The Mariners, The Crestas, The Voice, The Wanted, and the Rats who recorded a one-off psychedelic track "The Rise and Fall of Bernie Gripplestone" in 1967.
Enter the Bowie era. During the sessions of The Man Who Sold The World under the moniker The Hype, the band, which consisted of Ronson, Tony Visconti, and Woody Woodmansy (the band put together as Bowie's backing group) was signed to Vertigo records. They recruited Benny Marshall of The Rats a vocalist, and entered the studio to record an album. By the time the single appeared, The Hype had been renamed Ronno "4th Hour of my Sleep" was released to an indiferent reception in January, 1971. The Ronno album was never completed.
The track "4th Hour of my Sleep" as well as the b-side, "Powers of Darkness" appeared on "Superheavy Vol.1" a Vertigo records sampler available only in Peru.