Suzi Ronson

Apr 8, 2024 | lithub.com | Suzi Ronson

Angie calls in a high state of excitement: they’re going to see Elvis at Madison Square Garden in New York City. “Come over, David must look wonderful!” I want to go with them…there’s no chance of that happening, but still, a girl can dream. As I drive to Haddon Hall, I can’t help but think over and over…they’re going to see ELVIS!When I get there, David is full of nervous energy, pacing up and down, smoking one cigarette after another.

Apr 4, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Suzi Ronson |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |

An entertaining glam-rock portrait that loses some verve toward the end. A memoir from the stylist who created David Bowie’s iconic Ziggy Stardust look. “I was plucked from a suburban hairdressing salon, whipped up in the frenzy of Ziggy Stardust,” writes Ronson, and wound up “marrying the man of my dreams,” Mick Ronson, Bowie’s guitarist. The author had left school at 15 and trained to be a hairdresser in Bromley, where her client Mrs.

Apr 1, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Suzi Ronson

Earth was dying. We had five years left to live. Ziggy Stardust, the bisexual alien rock star, was sent from another planet to grey, binary 1970s Britain to give us a message of hope. I’m not sure about the hope part of the message, but he really turned us on. Apparently, Ziggy was a fictional character. We knew that, but we didn’t want to know it. It’s not like we were in the mood for critical thinking as we set about freeing our secret freakish selves.

Mar 21, 2024 | airmail.news | Suzi Ronson

April 25, 1963, Fairfield Halls in Croydon, south London. I was 13 years old and at a Beatles concert. At the end of the show everyone rushed round to the stage door, hoping for a glimpse of the boys. They came out and we screamed; they waved to us, we screamed louder; and when they got into the car and pulled out of the gates, we were on it like dogs. I was on the bonnet, others were on the roof. I could see them in the car — they looked scared — and it took the police to get us off.

Mar 5, 2024 | simonandschuster.com | Suzi Ronson

A luminescent memoir from the stylist who created David's iconic Ziggy Stardust look, painting a dazzling picture of Bowie and the wild world of his entourage during this pivotal moment in pop history. From the stylist behind David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust look, an electrifying memoir taking readers behind the curtains during a legendary chapter of pop culture history. Suzi Ronson was working in an English hair salon in the early 1970s when Mrs. Jones came in for her weekly shampoo and set.