Shock news from London. Only a few days after his fans the new album “Black Star” and the 69th birthday ( Friday) celebrated the British superstar, David Bowie is dead. As his management on Monday announced on all social media channels, the artist died on Sunday of cancer. He is survived by his second wife, model Iman (60), with whom he was married since 1992, and their daughter Alexandria Zarah (15) and his son Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones (44) from his first marriage with Angela Barnett (66) .
The fact that the singer was suffering from cancer, was hitherto unknown. With Bowie music world has lost one of the most influential characters of the last century. Unforgotten his cameo appearance in the film “Christiane F. – We Children from Bahnhof Zoo” 
The legendary Berliner WG
Bowie and Berlin were together but not only since this film. From 1976 to 1978 he lived in a seven-room flat in the West Berlin district of Schöneberg, in the former “world capital of heroin”, as he called the city later. The many rooms shared the Briton in that period among others with US punk rocker Iggy Pop (68, “Lust for Life”). Emerged known as the “Berlin Trilogy” albums “Low,” “Heroes” and “Lodger” In this time. Both musicians had come to drug rehabilitation to Germany.
Also immortalized himself made the man as David Robert Jones had come in a patchwork family in London to the world on January 8, 1947 with the success of the song “Under Pressure” he had recorded in 1981 with the band Queen. With the singles “Let’s Dance” (1983), “China Girl” (1983) and “Absolute Beginners” (1986), he established himself in the 1980s as a pop star.
breakthrough as Ziggy Stardust
A world star was Bowie then long: In 1972 he was known with the concept album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars” 
renewal as a constant
David Bowie invented itself again and again. This applies to its music, its styles, but also for its interests as an artist. So there was next to the cameo above some real exploring the Acting: He played the lead role in the science fiction film “The Man Who Fell to Earth” 
Mourners Bowie fans gather in Schöneberg bar
One day after the death of David Bowie has become a meeting place for grieving fans Café “Neues Ufer” in Berlin-Schöneberg. “That’s the pilgrimage here,” said Guido Hoffmann, founder of a Germany-wide David Bowie fan clubs, the German Press Agency. Since 2003 the Club has hosted the beginning of January every year birthday celebration of the British musicians to the always between 50 and 100 fans had appeared. In the late 1970s Bowie had been a regular at the café. He then lived two doors down in the main road 155. The location was founded in 1977 under the name “Other banks” and was considered the first declared gay café in Berlin.
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