This is the place where the cover of Bowie’s legendary and career-defining album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” was shot. The place is now very easy to find as it is marked by a blue memorial plaque.
The K. West sign that appears over Bowie's head on the album cover has long since disappeared to Bowie’s and his fans' regret. It belonged to a furrier that occupied part of the premises at the time.
Hear this story where it happened, along with the others around it. Say how many days you have and what you are into, and we put together a route through these places, with a voice guide telling each story as you arrive.
Guide me
David Bowie’s birthplace 40 Stansfield Rd, Ferndale, London SW9 9RY, UK 
Bowie’s first school Stockwell Road, Ferndale, London, England, SW9 9TG, United Kingdom 
Bowie mural in Brixton Tunstall Rd, Brixton, London SW9 8BN, UK 
Ziggy Stardust’s studio 33 Great Pulteney St, West End, London W1F 9NP, UK Photo: Picachord, CC BY-SA 4.0 
Giaconda Cafe 9 Denmark St, West End, London WC2H 8LS, UK 
Bowie’s first studio 165 Broadhurst Gardens, West Hampstead, London NW6 3AX, UK 
Half a Million People Paid a Shilling to See the Art Piccadilly, London · 213 m Photo: William Shipley, Public domain 
Brown's Hotel, London (Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Stevenson, George Tolkien, George Orwell, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen King, and others) 33 Albemarle St, London W1S 4BP, United Kingdom · 278 m 
Banksy’s Falling Shopper 25 Bruton Ln, London W1J 6JQ, UK · 309 m 
John Snow pub 39 Broadwick street, London, UK · 330 m 
A water pump that killed hundreds 39 Broadwick St, London, UK · 336 m 
The sushi place 167 Piccadilly, London, UK · 348 m 
Written by Holly Golightly
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