“Opening the case, we find ourselves transported back in time some 54 years”: How Gibson made the ultimate tribute to David Bowie guitarist Mick Ronson

Gibson Mick Ronson 1968 Les Paul Custom Collector's Edition.

The first time this writer saw the original guitar that this latest Gibson Custom Collector’s Edition model replicates was watching David Bowie on Top Of The Pops on 6 July 1972.

Even by the standards of the emerging glam-rock scene, Bowie and the Spiders from Hull – Mick Ronson, Woody Woodmansey and Trevor Bolder – looked otherworldly, but my eyes were glued to that guitar.