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‘Bowie said he’d sell his soul to be famous’: Suzi Ronson on sex, ruthless ambition – and dyeing David’s hair red
She’s the ex-hairdresser who turned Bowie into Ziggy Stardust, then set off around the world in his entourage. Ronson relives those wild days – and recalls seeing a darker side of David
One Saturday morning early in the summer of 1971, Suzi Ronson was busy at work at the Evelyn Paget hair salon on Beckenham High Street when a couple walked past pushing a pram. She went on to join Mick on Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder tour, finding herself around the likes of Allen Ginsberg and Joni Mitchell before moving to Woodstock and then Long Island. Not long after that, she was contacted by a producer at the Moth, a New York-based nonprofit group dedicated to the art of storytelling, asking if she wanted to tell her story in front of a live audience.
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