Me and Mr. Jones
My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars

This was an interesting memoir from the widow of Mick Ronson, the guitarist for David Bowie during his iconic Ziggy Stardust days. Through working as a hairdresser and having David Bowie's mother as a client she wound up working for David Bowie and his band. She created the spikey red hairdo that's......more

Suzi Ronson was a hairdresser when one day Mr Jones walks in and her life changes. Mrs Jones turns out to be David Bowie’s mother and she recommends Suzi to him, who gives him the iconic red Ziggy Stardust haircut. This is a really captivating and fun memoir in which Suzi writes about meeting David......more

The first few chapters where she talks of her life before, leading up to and whilst on tour with David Bowie are electrifying. Paired with colourful and inventive descriptions of his many costumes and mishaps on tour. But afterwards the pace of the book slows and becomes repetitive. The final parts......more

This is actually more the author's life with Spiders from Mars lead guitarist, Mick Ronson. (In case her name didn't give it away: reader, she married him.) Bowie disappears from the narrative two thirds of the way through. But after that there's Mott the Hoople and Bob Dylan, so it's not without in......more

Ends abruptly, with only an epilogue at the end covering anything post-1976, but otherwise this is a fascinating account of Bowie's Hunky/Ziggy/Aladdin years. Always lurking in the background was Bowie's right hand man, the great guitarist/arranger Mick Ronson, who made our Suzi his wife. Covers the......more