Michael Jackson waits for a cappucino and an almond croissant in East Sheen landmark Villa Rosa. Diana Ross and the Supremes on the platform at Mortlake Station in 1968. This was their first trip outside the states since Cindy Birdsong replaced Florence Ballard the previous year, and they were in Sheen to headline Ryan Caine’s inaugural Sheenstock festival. They arrived at Mortlake aboard the Orient Express, seen here pulling away. Diana and Mary’s clothing would suggest they’ve just been fleeced buying ‘traditional Scottish attire’ in Regent Street. Clearly you can’t believe everything people tell you. 1971. James Brown sits outside TJ’s in Sheen Lane. Marvin Gaye in White Hart Lane, Barnes in 1976. Marvin was pictured leaving his favourite tea shop, Orange Pekoe. Isaac Hayes underneath a Stax advert at East Sheen station, now renamed Mortlake, in 1970. Isaac was so inspired by the area that he wrote Theme from Sheen during his time here. This was subsequently renamed Theme from Shaft, and with the addition of rewritten vocals it became his most famous work. Barry White taking a selfie while the barrier’s down at Mortlake level crossing. Debbie, Kathy, Kim & Joni Sledge in a candid photo in the Sheen Garden Centre in 1980. Joni, the lead voice on Lost in Music, insisted on lilac petunias as part of the band’s UK tour rider, and was very particular where she got them from. Just out of shot are the girls’ producers Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers, themselves rather fond of a hardy perennial. 1983 and the most controversial image here, Imagination, taken directly through the CCTV of East Sheen Waitrose. The band were forcibly removed from the store and prosecuted for lewd behaviour in a public place. Leee John’s defence that it was just an illusion failed to impress the judge. A very young Chaka Khan sits in the Upper Richmond Road waiting for a 33 bus and watches as the fifth one passes in the opposite direction. In another ten minutes, Chaka will get fed up of waiting and walk down to the 209 stop. Marvin Gaye again, this time pictured in 1983 during his Essex casual phase. Marvin’s habit of singing loudly to whatever’s on his headphones (Southern Freeze in this case) has caused the carriage to empty. He’s got so into his music that he hasn’t realised he’s arrived at Mortlake, and he narrowly avoided that embarrassing moment when the doors shut just as you try to jump off.