Bowie broke up The Spiders from Mars in 1973. By then, Ronson was a highly respected musician in his own right and had co-produced and played on Lou Reed’s influential album Transformer.<\/p>\n
Suzi Ronson says: “I was heartbroken when they broke up, but my story didn’t end there, it ended up with me and Mick and our fabulous time together.”<\/p>\n
Ronson went on to work with the likes of Bob Dylan and Morrissey while also recording several solo albums. He died of cancer in 1993 aged just 46.<\/p>\n
Rupert Creed co-wrote Turn and Face the Strange<\/a>, a stage show about Ronson and Bowie, with Garry Burnett.<\/p>\n “It was really the Spiders from Mars that cemented the sound of David Bowie,” he says.<\/p>\n “Hull at the end of the line often gets overlooked and actually the whole element in David Bowie’s success really shouldn’t be underestimated.”<\/p>\n The David Bowie exhibition, curated by the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum as part of a national tour, has brought together 100 highlights from Bowie’s archive, many that have never been on public display. It will open at V&A Dundee on 4 November.<\/p>\n It will run at the Ferens, in Hull, from February to May 2028.<\/p>\n Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds<\/a>, watch the latest episode of Look North<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bowie broke up The Spiders from Mars in 1973. By then, Ronson was a highly respected musician in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-687339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}