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Family home of David Bowie
David Robert Jones was born in 40 Stansfield Road in Brixton on the 8th of January 1947 to Peggy and John Jones. The Jones family was to stay in the terra…
↳ 40 Stansfield Road
Video - D‘You know what I mean
Beckton Gas Works was a enormous London gas works built to manufacture coal gas and other products including coke from coal, it operated during the years …
↳ Beckton Gas Works
The Beatles Pub
The Grapes is a pub in the City of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. This pub was made famous since the Beatles used to down a pint or two here betw…
↳ The Grapes Pub
Cover - Storyville
The title Storyville refers to the prostitution district of New Orleans in 1897 - 1917, an area where prostitution was allowed legally, modelled on German…
↳ Cabildo, 1701 Chartres St, New Orleans
Cover - A Collection Of Great Dance Songs
Dungeness is the headland of a shingle beach on the Romney Marsh in Kent, England. A Collection of Great Dance Songs is a compilation album by Pink Floyd …
↳ Dungeness
Cover - Live At The Gorge
The Gorge Amphitheatre is a 25,000 seat concert venue located above the Columbia River Gorge in George, Washington, United States.Pearl Jam used a view of…
↳ Columbia River Gorge
Cover - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
The album cover for the Manic Street Preacher's fifth album, This is my truth tell me yours, was taken at the Black Rock Sands outside the Welsh town of P…
↳ Black Rock Sands
Cover - Bigger And Deffer
Campus Magnet High School is a High school in the Queens district of New York in the United States.LL Cool J used the outside of his former high school as…
↳ Campus Magnet High School, Queens
Single Cover - Hungry Heart
Asbury Park is a city in Monmouth County, New Jersey, in the United States. The boardwalk next to the seaside was used for the single cover of Bruce Sprin…
↳ Boardwalk Asbury Park
Cover - My Hometown (single)
Freehold is a town in Monmouth county, New Jersey, United States. The cover for Bruce Springsteen's Single My Home Town was taken outside a house in Parke…
↳ Parker Street, Freehold, NJ
Video - Firestarter
Aldwych tube station is a closed station formerly on the Piccadilly Line of the London Underground. It is surrounded on either side by the buildings of Ki…
↳ Aldwych Tube Station
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