David Bowie’s hairdresser claims late singer almost bedded 16-year-old girl and ‘launched himself’ at an ‘adorable-looking boy with an angelic face’ in the back of a limo as she exposes Ziggy Stardust tour secrets in new book

David Bowie’s former hairdresser has opened up about her excruciating encounter with the mother of a teenage girl the star took to his hotel room after a performance in the 1970s.

Suzi Ronson, 74, from Beckenham, first started working for the late singer after his mother Margaret became one of her clients at a local salon.

In her new book Me and Mr Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars, the stylist explains how she befriended Bowie’s first wife Angie after entering the salon for a perm in 1971.

An excerpt from the book, which was published in The Sunday timesdescribes how Suzi then traveled to the couple’s Haddon Hall country home, where she was introduced to David later that evening.

Although Angie changed her mind about the perm, Suzi eventually transformed David’s shoulder-length blonde hair into a red spiky hairstyle, which later appeared on the cover of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

After befriending the couple, who had an open marriage, Angie was asked to assist Bowie and the band on tour in June 1972.

The following May, Angie explained how the band were performing in Birmingham when David spotted a ‘beautiful girl’ with ‘long blond hair and dark eyes’ in the audience.

Suzi described how her role also involved playing ‘tour madam’ and organized a meeting for the fan with the band at their hotel – as she claims to have done on several other occasions.

She wrote: ‘At the hotel, David put his arm around her shoulder and I walked away to order drinks with the crew. But soon a very pale roadie came to see me.’

The fan told Suzi that the girl’s mother had arrived at the reception and refused to leave without her daughter, who was only 16 years old.

Suzi then remembers rushing to David’s hotel room and knocking on his door until he finally told her to “fuck off.”

The hairdresser then informed David of the girl’s age and how her mother was ‘making a big fuss about it’.

Suzi described how the girl was ‘immediately thrown out’ and David assured her she would attend another gig next year.

Suzi – who later married Mott the Hoople’s Mick Ronson – then says she promised the girl tickets to every Bowie gig she wanted to appease her.

“It was a close call,” she wrote. “I was wondering if I should ask for proof of age before they got on the bus.”

Elsewhere, Suzi claims that David picked a “cute looking boy with an angelic face and long dark curly hair” during a performance, but he did not specify which one.

During a costume change, Suzi claims David told her to put the fan in the car when the show was over.

When the performance ended, Suzi saw David’s bandmates all sitting in the front of the limo with the driver, leaving her in the backseat with the boy.

She wrote: ‘The boy next to me was shaking. I could feel it. David threw himself into the car and launched himself at the boy without a word.

‘I saw David shoving his tongue down the boy’s throat and his hand trying to open his trousers, all the while telling him what they were going to do at the hotel. I was speechless.’

When they arrived at the hotel, Suzi was told to take the boy to David’s hotel room while he greeted fans.

Before taking him to the hotel room, Suzi asked the boy how he was feeling and he insisted he was fine.

She then describes how David was handed a costume, who then “pulled the boy into the room.”

In June 2017, Suzi Ronson described her first meeting with David’s mother in The Mail on Sunday’s You Magazine.

She wrote: ‘Mrs Jones washed my shampoo at a quarter to three and put it in on Thursday afternoon. Every now and then she had a haircut and occasionally a rinse with a chocolate kiss. While I was doing her hair, she talked to me about her son David.

“She’d say, ‘He was such an artistic kid,’ and ‘He’s a singer in a band.’

‘She was so proud of him. I nodded and smiled and listened, just like you, but it wasn’t until she mentioned Space Oddity that my ears perked up a little.

I said, ‘Space Oddity. I heard that song on the radio.’ It was a hit. “Are we talking about David Bowie?”

“Yes,” she said, “I am his mother.”

‘There was a lot of fuss about David in Beckenham. He was playing at the local pub, the Three Tuns – albeit to folk music – but he’d had a top five song in ‘Space Oddity’. It had been a while though, so I thought maybe he was a one hit wonder.

‘The first time I actually saw David he was walking down Beckenham High Street in a dress with a girl wearing skinny black trousers. I met her – Mrs. Jones took her to the salon. It turned out to be Angie, David’s wife.

‘I liked her straight away. She was so cool and confident, and she looked great – she certainly wasn’t shopping in Beckenham. She told me a little about her life. She did the lights for David’s shows, and they hung out in the clubs all night in London and just had the best time. It all sounded so glamorous.”