Suzi Ronson was working in a hair salon in London when she gave Mrs Jones’ son the look that defined an era.
Suzi Ronson remembers the moment back in 1971 when her life changed from dreary black and white into cinematic technicolour. She was then Suzi Fussey and worked at Evelyn Paget, a hair salon in Beckenham, a small town in the London borough of Bromley. One day, Margaret Jones came in for her weekly shampoo. “I was 22 at the time,” Ronson recalls from her home in London.
Ronson first encountered Bowie at Haddon Hall just before Christmas in 1971. “David in the bay window, flicking through a magazine, wearing a soft velvet shirt with rolled-up sleeves and fitted trousers, his skin white, his face finely boned,” she writes inThe candid memoir recalls Ronson’s time working as a stylist on Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust Tour in 1972-73, which included 182 shows in the UK, US and Japan.
“I was not in love with David. He made me nervous because he was so different from anyone I had ever met.”
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