DAVID Bowie fans travelled to Camden High Street from all over London on Thursday morning to see a commem­orative stone laid opposite the tube station as part of the Music Walk of Fame.

Coinciding with the launch of the Moonage Daydream documentary, Ziggy Stardust’s plaque outside Barclays joined Amy Winehouse, Mad­ness, The Who and Soul II Soul on the trail that runs from Mornington Crescent to Chalk Farm.

Lee Bennett founded the Walk of Fame to be similar to Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, and celebrate “80 years of music in Camden Town”.

Mr Bennett said he had to choose Bowie, who is a “one-off, never to be replicated by anyone” and his music is “timeless for any generation”. Bowie played at the Roundhouse three times in 1970.

Music Walk of Fame organiser Lee Bennett

One of those concerts was with The Spiders from Mars drummer Mick “Woody” Woodmansey, who unveiled the plaque on Thursday.

He recalled how before the gig Bowie planned to play songs the drummer had never encountered before and told him “you’ll be ok”. “This was a major part of how he operated. He was intuitive and unpre­dictable,” Mr Wood­mansey told the crowd, adding, “he was 99.9 per cent always right.”

The drummer told the New Journal how the 70s gig, in which they were supporting the band Country Joe and The Fish, was “nerve-wracking”.

“[Bowie] said to me ‘bring your bongos and that goat skin rug in the lounge’ and I thought ‘what the hell?’ He told me to sit on the rug crossed legs and he’ll be on the stool and to ‘play whatever comes to you’,” Mr Woodmansey said.

Contributing editor of music mag Mojo, Phil Alexander, opened the event by paying homage to the “true trailblazer”.

“He helped birth the glam rock movement, adding a dash of colour and outrage to a world that was previously monochrome,” he said.

Students from Haverstock School sing Starman

Mr Bennett read out tributes to Bowie from music legends Goldie, Tina Turner and Roger Taylor from Queen, who said to laughter from the crowds: “He was probably the most exciting, dangerously minded and interesting person I’ve ever worked with, maybe apart from Freddie”.

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Rich O’Brien, who said Bowie’s music helped him through difficult mental health challenges, travelled from Ealing to the unveiling.

Haverstock School’s choir also took to the stage to sing Starman, their faces painted with the iconic red lightning bolt from Bowie’s Aladdin Sane album.