People lay flowers in front of a mural of singer David Bowie, painted by Australian street artist James Cochran, aka Jimmy C, following the announcement of Bowie’s death in Brixton, south London. (AFP PHOTO)
London — From his birthplace in London to his adopted home in New York, David Bowie fans around the world gathered Monday to mourn a star who many said had shaped their lives.
A crowd of more than 2,000 people spent the evening in the colorful south London district of Brixton where he was born — some clutching beers, others wearing Bowie t-shirts — to lay flowers beneath a giant mural of his face.
“I don’t think there is another musician in the world that can bring this crowd with so many generations at the same time,” said Dan Hunt, 28, his voice wavering with emotion.
“This is the sort of thing that happens only once in any of our lives. It would have been stupid to miss it.”
Lines of Bowie’s hit song “Space Oddity” rang through the chill winter air as fans played guitar and others sang along, several wearing the lightening bolt face makeup or shocking red mullet of “Aladdin Sane,” one of Bowie’s many stage personas.
From a building nearby, a speaker blasted Bowie’s 1983 hit “Let’s Dance,” while Brixton bars dedicated their playlists to the artist.
“RIP David, a starman gone to heaven, love his old friend,” read one bouquet at the mural, a portrait of Bowie’s 1973 Aladdin Sane incarnation.
In New York, mourners gathered in tears outside Bowie’s building in the city’s exclusive Soho neighborhood.
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