David Bowie may be gone, but stories of his life keep multiplying like glitter on a tour bus carpet.
Now, a brand-new Bowie biopic could be on its way, this time with a very intimate angle.
Suzi Ronson, wife of Mick Ronson (Bowie’s legendary right-hand guitarist and arranger), has revealed that her memoir Me and Mr Jones: My Life With David Bowie and The Spiders From Mars has been optioned with a view to becoming a major motion picture.
And Suzi isn’t just another hanger-on from the Ziggy circus: she was the stylist who helped invent the flame-haired alien look that made Bowie a star.
Speaking to The Sun, Suzi teased: ‘The book has now been auctioned to be made into a major motion picture. It hasn’t been bought, but we are hoping it will be soon, and it will be a great movie about the Ziggy Stardust days and his rise to fame.’
And in true rock ‘n’ roll fashion, the film won’t shy away from the messy stuff. Chief among them: Suzi’s own one-night stand with Bowie while he was still married to Angie Bowie.
‘The bedroom at his home was pink with a gold ceiling. Everybody thought he was so gay. I was curious about him. I think Angie set me up,’ Suzi recalled.
‘David called me and said: “Why don’t you come over and do my hair?” So I went up to London, had a great meal, and he kind of seduced me.’
This was, in fact, a hair appointment with history. Suzi first styled Angie’s hair – so successfully that Angie immediately summoned her to glam up her husband. The resulting spiky crimson feather cut became the Ziggy Stardust signature, turning Bowie from a talented oddball into a glittering space god.
While Hollywood toys with dramatizing Bowie’s wildest decade, archivists have uncovered yet another surprise from the man who never stopped reinventing himself.
Tucked away in his private New York study—accessible only to Bowie and his personal assistant—was his final secret project: an unfinished 18th-century musical called The Spectator.
Bowie’s notes outline a theatrical exploration of satire, art, and criminal gangs in Georgian London, complete with a cameo from notorious thief ‘Honest’ Jack Sheppard.
Turns out Bowie’s theatre itch had been there from the start. Back in 2002, he admitted to Radio 4’s John Wilson: ‘Right at the very beginning, I really wanted to write for theatre. And I guess I could have just written for theatre in my living room – but I think the intent was [always] to have a pretty big audience.’
Fans will finally get a glimpse of The Spectator when it goes on display at the David Bowie Centre in Hackney Wick on September 13.
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