John Oram's photos with the keyword: 23 Heddon Street

This plaque at 23 Heddon Street, London, W1 was unveiled in 2012, forty years after the release of 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spider from Mars' and four years before the untimely death of David Bowie. Plaques commemorating fictional characters are rare. Sherlock Holmes is commemorated in Baker Street and Lara Croft in Derby. 200_3_P1050330CE

23 Heddon Street, London, W1 is noted as the location of the cover photograph for David Bowie's 1972 album 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars'. A plaque was erected there in 2012, forty years after the release of the album and four years before Bowie's untimely death. A lot happens in more than forty years and my subdued pilgrimage today brought me to a spot all but unrecognisable from its 1970s appearance but well documented on the internet. 200_3_P1050332R

David Bowie will live forever in the memories of his greatest fans but one of the sites associated with his greatest early success has changed in only 46 years. It was in 1972 that 23 Heddon Street, W1 was used for the cover photograph of Bowie's album 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars'. I visited it today as documented in the preceding pictures. As I played with successive edits of the original photograph, I noticed that with increases in contrast the wall became brighter. Perhaps when we fade, as we all shall, we shall also shine more brightly. 23_FTSMB