Suzi Ronson’s acquaintance with David Bowie during the 1970s confusingly blurred the lines between friend, employee or brief lover. In memoir Me and Mr Jones, she’s an amiable narrator who gained entry into Bowie’s orbit at the start of the decade whilst working as a hairdresser in a Kent salon. Bowie’s mother Peggy introduced Suzi to David’s then-wife, Angela; Suzi helped create the Ziggy Stardust hairstyle, and was subsequently employed as a stylist/assistant on his world tour.

Me and Mr Jones has not only some great Bowie-related tales, but also captures the zeitgeist of that time whilst travelling the globe: Lou Reed, in his Transformer era, makes some appearances for one. With the restlessly shapeshifting Bowie changing style, the Ziggy persona was soon ditched, and with it both Suzi and the Spiders From Mars, Bowie’s backing band. Yet it was during this upheaval that the stylist met her husband-to-be: Mick Ronson, guitarist of Spiders From Mars as well as glam favourites Mott The Hoople.

Within Me and Mr Jones, it’s refreshing to see the record set straight as regards the creative contributions of Mick Ronson – who died in 1993 – here, he’s given overdue credit from someone who was there. As for Bowie, the author doesn’t exactly portray him as either godlike or a demon incarnate, but demonstrably somewhere in-between. Suzi Ronson has a balanced view of this extraordinary time, writing: “My life was all black and white when I met David, and afterwards it was glorious technicolour, as bright as the hair on his head.”