This candid memoir by the stylist who helped create the singer’s Ziggy look offers a vivid snapshot of his golden years – but loses its lustre when Bowie moves to LA
Ziggy pop: David Bowie, Mick Ronson and Mick ‘Woody’ Woodmansey of the Spiders from Mars perform on ITV’s Lift Off With Ayshea show in 1972.Ziggy pop: David Bowie, Mick Ronson and Mick ‘Woody’ Woodmansey of the Spiders from Mars perform on ITV’s Lift Off With Ayshea show in 1972.
his honest and troubled memoir belongs to a genre one may shorthand as I-was-Sinatra’s-valet: how an ordinary day jobber encountered a star and found life glitteringly transformed. Here it’s a 21-year-old hairdresser, Suzi Fussey, living at home with her parents in Bromley, south-east London, and working at a salon in neighbouring Beckenham.
Her infatuation with the couple is instant and irrevocable. Their flat at Haddon Hall is for her a Xanadu of chic, of scented candles and foreign magazines and strange sleeping arrangements. It’s also an escape from an unhappy home. She shrinks from the glum suburban routines of her mum and dad and yet – in an almost parenthetical aside – we learn that they too once knew glamour and danger.
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