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David Bowie’s live band personnel, 1962-2006

Here are the key line-ups in David Bowie’s touring band history.

Some early dates are approximate. Additionally, some collaborations which lasted for a very brief time – often a matter of days or a single show – have been excluded, with some exceptions such as Live Aid and some of Bowie’s final live appearances. Although it is impossible to include every permutation of line-up in Bowie’s many concerts, this should provide the key information.

* Guest performer during some North American/Australian shows

David Bowie: vocals David Gilmour: guitar, vocals Richard Wright: keyboards, vocals Phil Manzanera: guitar, vocals Dick Parry: saxophone Jon Carin: keyboards, guitar, vocals Guy Pratt: bass guitar, vocals Steve DiStanislao: drums, vocals

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Hello In the band for “Live Aid – Wembley Stadium, London” (15 July 1985), saxophone was played by Clare HIRST (not HURST). Best regards Xavier (from France)

Just trying to identify the guitar for Bowie’s StationTo Station..I attended a Bowie renuinaion with original members .. it was awesome.. I had a chance to meet, it I was struck back by our loss…I wanted to touch, but I was afraid it seems.. now 45 years since Station To Station..man… has time passed….

Making sure ; it was Earl Slick who played guitar with DB & co. on Dick Cavett Show

Charlie Sexton was never part of the Glass Spider tour band. He was opening act at some shows (in the US as far as I know) and guest at the filmed show in Sydney, Australia, but NEVER part of the tour band.

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When David Bowie Staged A Christmas Eve Gig At London’s Rainbow Theatre, 1972

On 24 December 1972, David Bowie performed a special homecoming Ziggy Stardust concert at London’s Rainbow Theatre.

Just six months after the June 1972 release of his The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars album , David Bowie had became an interstellar icon. After staging their first US tour from September through to early December, Bowie and his band, The Spiders From Mars, returned to the UK as the road-hardened unit they’d promised to become. With early flushes of fame building into a tidal wave of Ziggymania, he booked a special homecoming gig for 24 December 1972 – Christmas Eve, no less – at London’s Rainbow Theatre, with a view to gifting fans his hardest-hitting live performance yet.

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“whether it’s bowiemania or ziggymania or a combination of the two is not yet apparent”.

Bowie had first unveiled his Ziggy Stardust alter ego at Friars Aylesbury, on the outskirts of London, in January 1972, before playing extensively through England, with shows in Scotland and Wales, for much of the year, in what would grow to become an 18-month world tour lasting through to July 1973. It was in the US, however, that Bowie and The Spiders began to perfect their live show, one which balanced high-octane rock with boundary-pushing theatrics. Having enlisted pianist Mike Garson ahead of The Spiders’ debut US show, at Cleveland Music Hall, on 22 September, by the time Bowie made it over to the West Coast, just under a month later, the group were performing the shows of their lives.

Broadcast on the Los Angeles-based radio station KMET FM, and given official release years later as Live Santa Monica ’72 , Bowie’s 20 October show at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, in Santa Monica, California, presented the new-look Spiders in all their glory. Slaying the audience with lithe versions of Ziggy Stardust songs (Moonage Daydream, Suffragette City) and taking an animalistic prowl through his then unreleased new single, The Jean Genie, Bowie proved that he was fast becoming the rock’n’roll messiah the 70s had been waiting for.

“That American tour has really honed the Spiders to perfection”

By the time Bowie returned to the UK in December, reports from journalists who had tracked his progress through the US had worked British fans into a frenzy of anticipation. His record label, RCA, welcomed him with hype-building “Bowie’s Back!” ads in the music press, and Bowie himself issued a seasonal greeting via the announcement of a Christmas show at London’s Rainbow Theatre, to be held on Sunday, 24 December 1972: “DAVID BOWIE and the Spiders wish everyone a HAPPY CHRISTMAS”. A standing ticket to Bowie’s previous two Rainbow shows that August had cost a mere 75p; now the asking price was £2.50. But that didn’t deter fans. The gig sold out almost instantly, with demand leading Bowie to try, in vain, to book another Rainbow show for 23 December.

Mike Garson’s UK debut wasn’t the only thrill in store that night. Kicking off a short run of UK gigs that would last into early January 1973, Bowie upped the wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am ethos of the Ziggy live experience by dropping the acoustic portion of his setlist in order to deliver a taut hour of lean, muscular rock. “Just to make this tour a little different we opened our shows with a frantic version of the Stones classic Let’s Spend The Night Together,” Bowie recalled in the book Moonage Daydream , a collection of photos by Mick Rock, who documented much of Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust era.

Right from that opening number (soon to be recorded by Bowie for his Aladdin Sane album ), Bowie ripped through a raucous set that also included what the NME ’s Charles Shaar Murray would call “a razor-edged version of Hang On To Yourself, played better than I’ve ever heard it”, along with “powerful as they come” takes on Ziggy Stardust; The Man Who Sold The World ’s opening track, The Width Of A Circle; and the banned-in-the-USA single John, I’m Only Dancing, right through to the closing notes of Rock’n’Roll Suicide .

“That American tour has really honed the Spiders to perfection,” Murray affirmed. “The show is tougher, flashier and more manic than it’s ever been before.” Noting the audience’s near-hysterical reaction, he wrote, “Just for the record, they’ve started screaming at David Bowie… No more silent reverence – gold ol’ screaming, grabbing, fainting, sobbing and knicker-wetting… One hell of a way to see Christmas in.”

With Bowie on the verge of entering his Aladdin Sane era, and soon to question who was really in control – Bowie himself or his extraterrestrial creation – Murray also made the slightly prophetic observation: “Whether it’s Bowiemania or Ziggymania or a combination of the two is not yet apparent, but something is definitely happening, Mr Jones.”

“This was probably one of the best, highest energy jaunts of our short 18-month life”

For his part, Bowie had one request for fans: “I asked the audience beforehand to bring a toy to be donated to Dr Barnardo’s Children’s Home, the organisation for which my dad had worked all of his life,” he later recalled, adding, with palpable pride, “I think we filled an entire truck with them.”

Returning home to Haddon Hall that night, Bowie reportedly found another delivery awaiting him: six Royal Mail sacks, each full of Christmas cards. And there was more adulation in store. In their Christmas issue, Melody Make r magazine named him both Top Vocalist of the year and their “main man of 1972”, with The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars coming away as the critics’ album of the year.

At the end of a whirlwind 12 months in which he’d rocketed to superstardom, Bowie touched down on Earth a happy man. More US dates were booked for February, with Japan following in the spring. But this brief period at home remained, in Bowie’s estimation, a highlight of the Ziggy Stardust shows. “We put in a short tour of the UK between December and January 1972-73,” he reflected, 30 years later. “It was always a great buzz to come back home and this was probably one of the best, highest energy jaunts of our short 18-month life.”

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David Bowie 1983 Serious Moonlight Tour

David Bowie on stage during the 1983 Serious Moonlight Tour Tour by David Bowie Associated album Let’s Dance Start date 18 May 1983 End date 8 December 1983 Legs 8 Shows 96

The David Bowie Serious Moonlight Tour was thus far Bowie’s longest, largest and most successful concert tour. The tour opened at the Vorst Forest Nationaal, Brussels, on 18 May 1983 and ended in the Hong Kong Coliseum on 8 December 1983; 16 countries visited, 96 performances, and over 2.6M tickets sold. The tour garnered mostly favorable reviews from the press.

Tour development Bowie himself had a hand in the set design for the tour, which included giant columns (affectionately referred to as “condoms”) as well as a large moon and a giant hand. Some of the musicians from his 1978 tour were re-hired for this tour, including Carlos Alomar, who was the band leader for the tour. Earl Slick was drafted as guitarist a few days before the commencement of the tour due to problems with Stevie Ray Vaughan’s management demanding a contract renegotiation. The band rehearsed for the tour in Dallas, Texas. Each band member wore a costume which was designed “down to the smallest detail.” Two sets of each person’s costumes were made and worn on alternate nights, and everyone got to keep one set at the conclusion of the tour as a souvenir. One song that was on the rehearsal’s song list that never actually got to the rehearsal stage was “Across the Universe,” which Bowie had covered in 1975 on his Young Americans album.

Tour performances Earl Slick November 1983 during the Serious Moonlight Tour On 30 June 1983 the performance at the Hammersmith Odeon in London was a charity show for the Brixton Neighbourhood Community Association in the presence of Princess Michael of Kent. The 13 July 1983 Montreal Forum performance was recorded and broadcast on American FM Radio and other radio stations worldwide. The concert on 12 September in Vancouver was recorded for the concert video Serious Moonlight, that was released in 1984 and on DVD in 2006. At the Canadian National Exhibition Stadium – Toronto, ON performance on 4 September 1983, Bowie introduced onstage special guest, Mick Ronson, who borrowed Earl Slick’s guitar and performed “The Jean Genie” with Bowie and band. Mick had only been asked to play the day before, and he later recalled: I was playing Slick’s guitar … I had heard Slick play solos all night so I decided not to play solos and I just went out and thrashed the guitar. I really thrashed the guitar, I was waving the guitar above my head and all sorts of things. It was funny afterwards because David said, ‘You should have seen [Earl Slick’s] face…’ meaning he looked petrified. I had his prize guitar and I was swinging it around my head and Slick’s going ‘Waaaa… watch my guitar’, you know. I was banging into it and it was going round my head. Poor Slick. I mean, I didn’t know it was his special guitar, I just thought it was a guitar, a lump of wood with six strings. The last show of the tour (8 December 1983) was the third anniversary of John Lennon’s death, whom both Bowie and Earl Slick had worked with in the studio previously. Slick suggested to Bowie a few days prior to the show that they play “Across the Universe” as a tribute, but Bowie said, “Well if we’re going to do it, we might as well do “Imagine.”” They rehearsed the song a couple of times on 5 December (in Bangkok) and then performed the song on the final night of the tour as a tribute to their friend.

Tour legacy The tour was a high point of commercial success for Bowie, who found his new popularity perplexing. Bowie would later remark that with the success of Let’s Dance and the Serious Moonlight Tour, he had lost track of who his fans were or what they wanted.[5] One critic would later call this tour his “most accessible” because “it had few props and one costume change, from peach suit to blue.” Bowie later specifically tried to avoid repeating the formula for success from his Serious Moonlight Tour with his 1987 Glass Spider Tour.

Tour band David Bowie – vocals, guitar, saxophone Earl Slick – guitar Carlos Alomar – guitar Carmine Rojas – bass guitar Tony Thompson – drums, percussion Dave Lebolt – keyboards, synthesizers Steve Elson – saxophones Stan Harrison – saxophones, woodwinds Lenny Pickett – saxophones, woodwinds George Simms – backing vocals Frank Simms – backing vocals

Date  City  Country  Venue

Europe 18 May 1983 Brussels ,Belgium ,Vorst Forest Nationaal 19 May 1983  Brussels ,Belgium ,Vorst Forest Nationaal 20 May 1983 FrankfurtWest GermanyFesthalle 21 May 1983 Munich ,Olympiahalle 22 May 1983 Munich ,Olympiahalle 24 May 1983 Lyon ,France ,Palais des Sports de Gerland 25 May 1983  Lyon ,France ,Palais des Sports de Gerland 26 May 1983 Fréjus ,Les Arènes 27 May 1983 Fréjus ,Les Arènes 29 May 1983 Nantes (Cancelled) Le Beaujoire

North America 30 May 1983 San Bernardino, California ,US Festival Glen Helen Regional Park

Europe 02 June 1983 London, England ,Wembley Arena 03 June 1983 London ,England ,Wembley Arena 04 June 1983 London ,England ,Wembley Arena 05 June 1983 Birmingham ,National Exhibition Centre 06 June 1983  Birmingham ,National Exhibition Centre 08 June 1983 Paris ,France ,Hippodrome D’Auteuil 09 June 1983 Paris ,France ,Hippodrome D’Auteuil 11 June 1983 Gothenburg ,Sweden ,Ullevi Stadium 12 June 1983  Gothenburg ,Sweden ,Ullevi Stadium 15 June 1983 Bochum ,Germany ,Ruhrstadion 17 June 1983 Bad Segeberg ,Freilichtbühne 18 June 1983  Bad Segeberg ,Freilichtbühne 20 June 1983  Berlin ,Waldbühne 24 June 1983 Offenbach am Main ,Bieberer Berg Stadion 25 June 1983 Rotterdam ,Netherlands ,Stadion Feijenoord 26 June 1983 Rotterdam ,Netherlands ,Stadion Feijenoord 28 June 1983 Edinburgh ,Scotland ,Murrayfield Stadium 30 June 1983 London ,England ,Hammersmith Odeon 01 July 1983 Milton Keynes ,Milton Keynes Bowl 02 July 1983 Milton Keynes ,Milton Keynes Bowl 03 July 1983 Milton Keynes ,Milton Keynes Bowl

North America 11 July 1983 Quebec City, Quebec ,Canada ,Colisée de Québec 12 July 1983 Montreal, Quebec ,Montreal Forum 13 July 1983 Montreal, Quebec ,Montreal Forum 15 July 1983 Hartford, Connecticut ,US ,Hartford Civic Center 16 July 1983 Hartford, Connecticut ,US ,Hartford Civic Center 18 July 1983 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ,The Spectrum 19 July 1983 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ,The Spectrum 20 July 1983 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ,The Spectrum 21 July 1983 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ,The Spectrum 23 July 1983 Syracuse, New York (Re-scheduled) – Carrier Dome 25 July 1983 New York City ,Madison Square Garden 26 July 1983 New York City ,Madison Square Garden 27 July 1983 New York City ,Madison Square Garden 29 July 1983 Richfield, Ohio ,Richfield Coliseum 30 July 1983 Detroit, Michigan ,Joe Louis Arena 31 July 1983 Detroit, Michigan ,Joe Louis Arena 01 August 1983 Rosemont, Illinois ,Rosemont Horizon 02 August 1983 Rosemont, Illinois ,Rosemont Horizon 03 August 1983 Rosemont, Illinois ,Rosemont Horizon 07 August 1983 Edmonton, Alberta ,Canada ,Commonwealth Stadium 09 August 1983 Vancouver, British Columbia ,Pacific Colesium 11 August 1983 Tacoma, Washington ,United States ,Tacoma Dome 14 August 1983 Los Angeles, California ,The Forum 15 August 1983 Los Angeles, California ,The Forum 17 August 1983 Phoenix, Arizona ,Veterans Memorial Coliseum 19 August 1983 Dallas, Texas ,Reunion Arena 20 August 1983 Austin, Texas ,Frank Erwin Center 21 August 1983 Houston, Texas ,The Summit 24 August 1983 Norfolk,Virginia,Scope Cultural & Convention Center 25 August 1983 Norfolk,Virginia,Scope Cultural & Convention Center 27 August 1983 Landover, Maryland ,Capital Centre 28 August 1983 Landover, Maryland ,Capital Centre 29 August 1983 Hershey, Pennsylvania ,Hersheypark Stadium 31 August 1983 Foxborough, Massachusetts ,Sullivan Stadium 03 September 1983 Toronto, OntarioCanada ,National Exhibition Stadium 04 September 1983 Toronto, Ontario ,Canada ,National Exhibition Stadium 05 September 1983 Buffalo, New YorkUnited StatesBuffalo Memorial Auditorium 06 September 1983 Syracuse, New York ,Carrier Dome 09 September 1983 Anaheim, California ,Anaheim Stadium 11 September 1983 Vancouver, British Columbia ,CanadaPacific National Exhibition Coliseum 12 September 1983 Vancouver, British Columbia ,CanadaPacific National Exhibition Coliseum 14 September 1983 Winnipeg, Manitoba ,Winnipeg Stadium 17 September 1983 Oakland, California ,Oakland Alameda Coliseum

Asia 20 October 1983 Tokyo ,Japan ,Nippon Budokan 21 October 1983 Tokyo ,Japan ,Nippon Budokan 22 October 1983 Tokyo ,Japan ,Nippon Budokan 24 October 1983 Tokyo ,Japan ,Nippon Budokan 25 October 1983 Yokohama ,Yokohama Stadium 26 October 1983 Osaka ,Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium 27 October 1983 Osaka ,Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium 29 October 1983 Nagoya ,Kokusai Tenji Kaikan 30 October 198 3 Osaka ,Expo Commemoration Park 31 October 1983 Kyoto ,Kyoto Prefectural Gymnasium

Oceania 04 November 1983 Perth ,Australia ,Perth Entertainment Centre 05 November 1983 Perth ,Australia ,Perth Entertainment Centre 06 November 1983 Perth ,Australia ,Perth Entertainment Centre 09 November 1983 Adelaide ,Adelaide Oval 12 November 1983 Melbourne ,VFL Park 16 November 1983 Brisbane ,Lang Park 1 9 November 1983 Sydney ,RAS Showgrounds 20 November 1983 Sydney ,RAS Showgrounds 24 November 1983 Wellington ,New Zealand ,Athletic Park 26 November 1983 Auckland ,Western Springs Stadium

Asia 03 December 1983 Kallang ,Singapore ,National Stadium 05 December 1983 Bangkok ,Thailand ,Thai Army Sports Stadium 07 December 1983 Hung Hom, Kowloon ,Hong KongHong Kong Coliseum 08 December 1983 Hung Hom, Kowloon ,Hong Kong Coliseum

The Songs From Space Oddity “Space Oddity” From Hunky Dory “Life on Mars?” From The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars “Soul Love” “Star” “Hang on to Yourself” From Aladdin Sane “Cracked Actor” “The Jean Genie” From Pin Ups “I Can’t Explain” (originally non-album single by The Who, written by Pete Townshend) “Sorrow” (originally by The McCoys, written by Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein and Richard Gottehrer) From Diamond Dogs “Rebel Rebel” From Young Americans “Young Americans” “Fame” (Bowie, John Lennon, Carlos Alomar) From Station to Station “Station to Station” “Golden Years” “TVC 15” “Stay” “Wild Is the Wind” (originally a single by Johnny Mathis, written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington) From Low “Breaking Glass” (Bowie, Dennis Davis, George Murray) “What in the World” From “Heroes” “Joe the Lion” “”Heroes”” (Bowie, Brian Eno) From Lodger “Red Sails” (Bowie, Eno) “Look Back in Anger” (Bowie, Eno) From Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) “Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)” “Ashes to Ashes” “Fashion” From Let’s Dance “Modern Love” “China Girl” (originally from The Idiot by Iggy Pop, written by Pop and Bowie) “Let’s Dance” “Cat People (Putting Out Fire)” (originally from Cat People: Original Soundtrack, written by Bowie and Giorgio Moroder) Other songs: “Imagine” (originally from Imagine by John Lennon, written by Lennon) “White Light/White Heat” (from White Light/White Heat by The Velvet Underground, written

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To this day this was the best concert I’ve ever been to. David always loved playing in Philadelphia and that’s where I seen him. I’ve been to well over a 100 concerts over 45 years . No one has the stage presence of David Bowie.

A memorable concert in Munich

I was at the Washington DC Event in August 1983. Six of my friends went in tux’s and a limo. I remember they kick a 14 foot inflated world ball into the crowd and it made its way around the whole stadium.

Great memories!!!

I remember i couldn’t get a ticket for England, so got a ticket for the 25th of june in Rotherdam, fond memories had to take a train to London, then coach to Rotterdam, stayed in nice hotel, brilliant time.

I saw the September 5 concert in Buffalo. It was a thrill to see him and a great spectacle. He came out as the Thin White Duke at one point–very theatrical. I wish I could remember who opened that show.

Was at the Sept 9 gig and was looking for the opening band’s lineup, I know the Go Go’s and Madness opened but my memory fails the rest, I will say a guy was hit and killed by a train of all thing’s on his way to the concert, kinda sad. But, what was worse was the radio station KROQ in Los Angeles played Ozzy’s Crazy Train all the next day because of it…and they didn’t play rock and roll..good times ✌🧡

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David Bowie's Hairdresser Details Sex, Betrayal Behind Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust in New Memoir

S uzi Ronson was a 21-year-old stylist when a chance encounter with Bowie's mother changed her life. Now she's sharing her intimate Starman memories in a new memoir

The year was 1971 and Suzi Ronson, 21, was a hairstylist working at a salon in the London suburb of Beckenham when one of the regulars came in for a perm. In her tweed skirt, knitted cardigan and sensible shoes, she seemed no different than the other “ladies of a certain age” who frequented the shop — at least as far as Ronson was concerned. Even her name sounded anonymous: Mrs. Peggy Jones. 

Like most customers, Mrs. Jones began chatting about her family. She mentioned her “artistic” son David, proudly detailing all the musical instruments he’d mastered. “He was in the Top 10, you know,” she added. That got Ronson’s attention.

The David Mrs. Jones was bragging about was better known as David Bowie . At the time, he was little more than a one-hit-wonder, having gained notoriety with the pseudo-novelty song “Space Oddity” two years before.

Over the two years that followed, Bowie's Ziggy Stardust character would launch him into the pop culture stratosphere and Ronson was swept along as the hair and wardrobe specialist who helped develop Bowie’s otherworldly persona. She would accompany him on his first global tour, and bear witness to the corrosive effects of his rapid rise to fame and rampant sex and drugs.

Now Ronson is sharing her story in a new book, Me and Mr. Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars , out now from Simon & Schuster, which captures the thrilling era when the rock ‘n’ roll starman took flight — and the moment those in his orbit crashed back to Earth. 

The birth of the Starman

Ronson saw Bowie long before she met him. He was a local celebrity in Beckenham, known less for his music than for his flamboyant style. The townsfolk never quite got used to the sight of Bowie and his wife Angie strolling down the sidewalk — he in a flowing gold maxi dress (later seen on the cover of The Man Who Sold the World ) and she in jeans and a fur coat. Homosexuality had only recently been decriminalized, and gender nonconforming attire was far from commonplace on suburban streets. 

Angie, a brash American actress who’d been married to Bowie for less than a year, sought Ronson out first. In search of a new “outrageous” hairstyle, she booked an appointment on Mrs. Jones’ recommendation.

Angie invited her to their home at Haddon Hall, a delightfully dilapidated Victorian mansion where the couple rented a flat. The expansive main hall, with its scented candles, stained glass windows and deep pile carpets, reminded Ronson of a decidedly funky church. As the threesome thumbed through expensive foreign magazines for style inspiration, they were drawn to a fashion spread by Japanese designer Kansai Yamamoto.

Bowie asked Ronson to copy the model’s short, red spiky hair. After some skilled scissor work and a liberal dose of “Red Hot Red” hair dye, Ziggy Stardust was born. 

From that moment on, Ronson became the official hair and makeup expert to Bowie and his laddish “Spiders from Mars” bandmates who also resided at Haddon Hall: bassist Trevor Bolder, drummer Mick “Woody” Woodmansey and a handsome hotshot guitarist named Mick Ronson (who Ronson would later marry).

Close encounters with free love

“My life was all black and white until I met David,” Ronson writes, “and afterwards it was glorious technicolor, as bright as the hair on his head.” She discovered quickly that Bowie and Angie had an open marriage, and soon his attention turned to her. 

When Bowie invited her to Haddon Hall one night, Ronson assumed he wanted a haircut. Instead, he had something different in mind: dinner together. Alone. “Tonight I meet a different David, charming and sweet, and before I know it his arm is around my waist and we’re out the door, in his car and on our way to London,” she writes. ”It’s easier going than I think; David seems interested in what I have

to say and he puts me at ease.” 

Arriving back at Haddon Hall, Bowie propositions her in the driveway. “He turns to me as the car engine goes silent, and we sit in the dark until he says: ‘Well, Suzi, are you coming in?’ I know, I could get in my car and go home, but part of me is curious. I’m not that attracted to him, but as he holds my eyes, the distance between us closes and suddenly he’s kissing me. It’s a rush, the passion rises, and before I know what I’m doing I’m in the house and in his bedroom.”

The lusty moment cooled somewhat when Bowie mentioned how much fun he’ll have telling his wife about the encounter the next day. Ronson is horrified. “Shame washes over me,” Ronson writes, “How can I face Angie? ‘She’ll understand,’ he says, seeing my reaction. ‘She expects it – we have an understanding; it’d be worse if I didn’t tell her.’” Bowie assures her that they often compare notes about their latest conquests. “I hope I get a good report,” adds Ronson. 

On tour with the Spiders from Mars

Angie persuaded Bowie's manager to hire her to accompany the band during the global trek in June 1972 to promote their latest album, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. While ostensibly Bowie’s stylist, the role went far beyond hairdressing. Ronson was tasked with dyeing the jockstrap for his stage outfit red and ironing out the sweat from his costumes. When Bowie stepped offstage, she was expected to wait in the wings with a glass of red wine and his favorite Gitanes cigarettes in hand. 

One of her less-than-savory duties was “tour madame,” choosing which fans to invite onto the bus or back to the hotel for intimate encounters with Bowie. Girls or boys, it didn’t matter. The only prerequisite was that they were beautiful and young. The latter point caused a problem one night after a concert in Birmingham, when Bowie retired to his suite with a female fan. A short time later, her irate mother appeared at the front desk, “kicking up a hell of a fuss,” Ronson writes. She refused to leave without her daughter — who, it turned out, was only 16. This was news to Ronson, who immediately rushed to Bowie’s room.

The young woman was “instantly deposited out of the door,” with a kiss from Bowie and a request to return the following year. “I calmed her down as she sobbed about how much she loved David and I promised her I’d get her tickets to any gig she wanted,” Ronson writes.  “It was a close call. 'I wondered if I should start asking for proof of age before they got on the bus.”

At another gig, Ronson says she was asked to bring an “adorable-looking boy with an angelic face and long, dark curly hair” whom Bowie had spotted in the crowd back to his limo. She was shocked when Bowie didn’t even wait to get back to the privacy of the hotel before beginning the dalliance. “David threw himself into the car and without a word launched himself at the boy,” she writes. “I could see David pushing his tongue down the boy’s throat and his hand trying to open his trousers, all the while telling him what they’ll be doing back at the hotel. I was speechless.” 

The dark side of David's fame

Once Bowie became the most successful act in Britain since the Beatles, Ronson noticed a change in him. “He blamed [disloyalty and] cocaine for his bad behavior. I laugh when I

read this and don’t believe it for a second,” she writes. “It was raw, naked ambition and a bloody-mindedness that is particular to a few people…It was revenge and control.”

While Bowie enjoyed all the financial perks of a rock star lifestyle, his band was scraping by on a minimum wage salary. This struck Ronson as deeply unfair, especially when it came to her future husband Mick Ronson, who was hugely influential in Bowie’s artistic development and played a crucial role in arranging his songs.

When bassist Trevor Bolder and drummer Woody Woodmansey began to mutiny due to their low wages, Bowie took this as the ultimate betrayal and began to ice them out. By the end of the tour, he’d decided to split the band. While Suzi Ronson was given a heads up, the rhythm section wouldn’t find out until they were onstage at what would prove to be their last gig. 

It was July 3, 1973 at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. Ronson was in the wings when she heard Bowie announce to the crowd, “Not only is it the last show of the tour, but it’s the last show that we’ll ever do.” 

As shockwaves rippled through the rock world, Bowie clarified in the press that his surprise retirement only applied to the Ziggy Stardust character. While he would go on to tour again and make more music, he'd be leaving the Spiders from Mars behind. Ronson says she never saw him or Angie again after the farewell gig at the Odeon. “I had thought we were closer than that. I really had.”

She married Mick Ronson in 1977, shortly before the birth of daughter Lisa Anabelle. They remained together until 1993, when Mick died of liver cancer at 46. The same disease would claim Bowie’s life in 2016 . “I wondered briefly if David thought about Mick at all during his struggle,” she recalled of hearing the news. Though it had been more than 40 years since they shared a room, the loss was potent. “I always hoped to see him one more time.” 

Me and Mr. Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars by Suzi Ronson is out now from Simon & Schuster.

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THE RISE OF DAVID BOWIE, MICK ROCK BOOK

Tribute to David Bowie by his official photographer, Mick Rock. Compiled in 2015 with Bowie's permission, this collection reviews the musical, theatrical and sexual revolution that was the avant-garde Ziggy Stardust world tour of 1972 and 1973, with on-stage snapshots, backstage portraits and press clippings. A tribute to an exceptional artist. Language: English.

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