He had fought 18 months bravely against the disease and died peacefully surrounded by his family, it said on include the Facebook page of the artist, whose greatest hits “Space Oddity”, “Life On Mars”, “Heroes” and “Let’s Dance”.
Bowie’s son from his first marriage, the director Duncan Jones ( 44), confirmed the news. “I’m sorry and I am sad to say that it’s true,” he wrote on Twitter and published a photo, which shows him as a little boy on his father’s shoulders. Bowie was in second marriage with the model Iman (60) married. With Facebook, Twitter and Instagram they posted the saying: “. Sometimes you recognize the value of a moment only when he is commemorating”
Stones, McCartney and Iggy Pop mourn Bowie
The Rolling Stones paid tribute to Bowie as exceptional artists and “true original”, the band was shocked by his death. The former Beatles singer Paul McCartney (73) published on its website a photo of themselves with Bowie on which the two cheerful grin, and wrote: “David was a big star and I appreciate the moments that we had together. “
Deep dismay showed also a longtime friend and former roommate Bowie:” David’s friendship was the light of my life “, the US musician Iggy Pop wrote (68) on Twitter. “I’ve never met such a brilliant person. He was the best there was. “
sympathy in Berlin
The two had lived in the 70s together in an apartment in West Berlin where Bowie one of his most creative phases relived. In his song “Heroes” he sings about a pair of lovers, that has kissed in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Hansa recording studio where Bowie has included, among other things “Heroes” will remember this Friday with a funeral service to him.
Before Bowie’s former house in Berlin’s Schöneberg fans laid on Monday as a wreath like a Bowie-mural in south London. There, the artists had come on January 8 in 1947 to the world. Even in his adopted home of New York mourned people: Before his home in the fashionable SoHo District, and in front of the New York Theatre Workshop, where currently Bowie’s musical “Lazarus” is played, lay on Monday numerous flowers and candles
. About 500 times represented in the German charts
1969 succeeded Bowie with “Space Oddity” breakthrough. Bowie, re-invented himself and his music again and again, became one of the most influential and sold around 140 million records and most successful musicians of recent decades. Yet on January 8, so Bowie’s birthday, his new album “Black Star” had appeared with seven songs.
In the official German charts Bowie was represented more than 500 times as GfK Entertainment announced. Thus he reached with the song “Let’s Dance” The greatest success. Bowie’s 25th studio album “Black Star” could end this week are at the top of the German charts, it said. It would be Bowie’s second number-one album for “The Next Day” (2013).
He shunned publicity
The public shunned Bowie for years for years. With his comeback album “The Next Day” he had in 2013 surprised on his 66th birthday the public.
The Groninger Museum in the Netherlands opened its doors on Monday extracting the exhibition on the life of pop stars and put a condolence from. The exhibition with around 300 objects from the personal archive of the singer could be seen even in London and Berlin.
Madonna and David Cameron condole
US pop star Madonna published on Twitter a photo which she shows with Bowie. “I’m so happy to have met you !!!! Hot Tramp I Love You So! “The 57-year-old wrote. On the International Space Station mourned British astronaut Tim Peake: “His music was an inspiration to many.”
Even Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron mourned the death of the legendary singer: “I have when growing the Popgenie David Bowie heard and seen. He was a master of reinvention, which took it over again properly. A huge loss “
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