Behind Bowie’s greatest haircut

Newton’s distinctive 1930s-style, vivid red hair was developed in collaboration with Bafta winning hairstylist Martin Samuel. “Bowie requested the range of colour that I could get in London, because he couldn’t get it in the States,” he tells SFX. “When I arrived we developed the haircut. It’s become an iconic image over the last 40 years. David asked me, very graciously, to stay with him for the Station To Station tour, right until he moved to Germany. We cut the whole thing off and he had that short blond hair. It was nice because no one else took over Newton’s look.”