IT WAS the haircut that changed her life as much as his and it was almost a disaster.
When Suzi Ronson styled David Bowie's hair into a spiky bright red barnet, it was a key part of the alien persona that set the suburban singer on the path to superstardom, and helped change the course of pop music on the way.
But as her engaging new memoir reveals, Ziggy Stardust's trademark hairdo nearly crashed and burned before it could send his career stratospheric.
"It takes me about half an hour to chop off his long blond hair and as it falls around my feet, I am cautiously optimistic," she writes in Me and Mr Jones.
"The feeling's short-lived, though, as when I finish, his hair won't stand up - it just flops to one side.
"I'm panicking and David doesn't look too bright, so I say with a confidence I don't feel, 'Don't worry, Dave, as soon as we tint it, the texture will change and it will stand up.
She adds: "I'm praying I'm right" Suzi, then Suzi Fussey, had been introduced to David and wife Angie after giving the singer's mum, Margaret, a perm in 1971.
She met them shortly before Christmas at the bohemian flat the couple shared on the ground floor of Haddon Hall, a huge Victorian mansion in Beckenham, London.
The day after chopping off Bowie's locks, leaving him looking like a "schoolboy", Suzi was back in the high street salon in which she worked, playing with colours, landing on the Fantasy range by Schwarzkopf: Red Hot Red.
"Angie calls me at the salon a few days later and says in a bright but slightly strained voice that David isn't happy; she asks when I'll be back. "Tonight'. I say, and with hair dye and confidence I go back to Haddon Hall."
The outcome was spectacular. "Any doubts David might have had disappear the second he looks in the mirror at his short, spiky hair. she recalls.
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