David Bowie

David Bowie poses in Heddon Street as Ziggy Stardust

The black plaque at Heddon Street commemorates the 1972 cover shoot.

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David Bowie records at Olympic Studios

Olympic Studios' own history names David Bowie among the artists who recorded in the Barnes complex. The separate Heddon Street entry covers the album artwork; this one records the distinct studio relationship without conflating the two places.

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David Bowie — Berlin — Hansa Studios

At Hansa’s Meistersaal, Bowie recorded material for Low and Lodger and made “Heroes” in a room whose proximity to the Wall became part of the album’s enduring geography.

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Hansa Studios — Hansa Studios

Hansa’s official history dates Studio One to 1973 and the Köthener Straße complex to 1975. At Studio Two, Bowie wrote “Heroes” and recorded the Berlin Trilogy with Iggy Pop; the same official history names the wider roster without pretending every artist used the same room.

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David Bowie — Berlin — Hauptstraße 155

Hauptstraße 155 was Bowie and Iggy Pop’s Schöneberg address; it is residential context, never an invitation to intrude.

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David Bowie — Berlin — Potsdamer Platz

The open space around Potsdamer Platz once made division physically legible and now makes the speed of Berlin’s reinvention visible.

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David Bowie — Berlin — Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

The damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church holds destruction and reconstruction in one frame, echoing the records’ refusal of a clean break with the past.

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David Bowie — Berlin — Clärchens Ballhaus

Clärchens Ballhaus supplies a surviving social interior—music, dancing and an older Berlin continuing through political rupture.

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