Although the K West sign has long since gone, the location remains a place of pilgrimage for Bowie fans. The famous image is a notable oddity among Bowie's album covers which otherwise, almost without exception, feature a studio close-up of David in his latest guise. For Ziggy Stardust, Bowie/Ziggy is instead a diminutive figure dwarfed by the shabby urban landscape, picked out in the light of a street-lamp, framed by cardboard boxes and parked cars. As on the cover of Hunky Dory, David's flesh-tones, hair and gaudy jumpsuit have been artificially re-tinted, enhancing the adventitious impression that the guitar-clutching visitor to this unglamorous twilight backstreet has just touched down from another dimension altogether.

This small side-street just off Regent Street is the site of the Ziggy Stardust album photographs - taken on a rainy night in January 1972. You'll not find the original phone box - it's long gone - but a phone box still exists on the site. You can call it on 020 7734 8719 if you like, but nobody will answer.