Sunday Times

David Bowie, Queen and The Rolling Stones boost London’s flagging shopping scene 

Jim Armitage, The Sunday Times, October 31, 2021

Tribute stores to Bowie, the Stones and Queen seek a new generation of fans

It’s not every day that hitting the shops makes Nikky Smart well up. “I’m really emotional,” said the 35-year-old David Bowie fanatic from Maidenhead, blinking back tears. “It’s kind of like they’ve brought him back again.”

They are words that will be music to the ears of the late rock god’s estate, which is behind a pop-up memorabilia store-cum-fanzone that opened last week on Heddon Street, the precise location in London’s West End where his fictional Ziggy Stardust came to Earth.

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