After the death Monday singer, an anonymous crowd gathered in Brixton, the area of which David Bowie was originairej in South London for a final goodbye to their idol. While messages were pouring on social networks, nearly 2,000 people singing several of her tubes Starman Rebel Rebel .
Many had dressed the famous red flash that graced the face of his character Ziggy Stardust . They transformed into a true open-air disco a place in the neighborhood, before the centennial Ritzy cinema that displayed on its front: “David Bowie, our boy Brixton, RIP.”
From a nearby building was broadcast at full volume her hit Let’s dance , attracting many enthusiastic dancers, while the bars around, crowded, her devoted their music programming. In front of the crowd, the police cut traffic on an adjacent street, soon besieged by a swarm of revelers singing loudly, climbing telephone booths and raising their glasses to the sky to complete the metamorphosis of the neighborhood Bowie planet.
“I do not think there is another musician in the world that can gather this crowd with so many different generations. It only happens once in a lifetime . It would have been stupid to miss it, “he told Dan Hunt, 28 years.
During the day, the fans, all generations and all countries, marched through this popular area undergoing gentrification before a large colorful mural of the face of the star. “Everybody loved him. It is a day of sadness,” Julia slipped the early forties, came in next.
“It is my youth, the challenge to gender stereotypes. For gays, it was a light that guided us,” said Charlie Rice, 66, goggles smoke and colorful scarf. Nydia, an English writer of 45, in tears, laid flowers and candles, rekindling those were off. “He was everything to me. He had a lot of influence on my life, since the age of 11 years. If I had not had heroes like David Bowie, I probably never would have been an artist,” a- she said.
For Dagmar, 40, a graphic designer from Brazil, “this is not just his music are his acts, his lifestyle, what he meant to each”. Nearby, Clare Ronai, accountant 35 years, has brought flowers. She is in tears, with her baby in the stroller she dressed like the movie Labyrinth, in which Bowie played the king of the elves. “I discovered it when I was 12-13 years old, and we all think that is not normal at this age. He helped us throughout that period.”
Tributes to New York, Berlin, …
Around the world, fans of David Bowie have also expressed their emotion, laying flowers and candles where he had lived.
In Berlin, where the artist took refuge in the late 1970s to find inspiration, fans also deposited flowers at his former address at 155 of the Hauptstrasse, in the district of Schöneberg. Tears and flowers also outside his home in Manhattan, New York (USA), an elegant red brick building on Lafayette Street in Soho.
“It was a brilliant artist in every sense, always ahead of his time,” said Michelle Lynn, come on site before work, with pictures of it in her purse. She remembers seeing him in concert, the first time at Madison Square Garden: “I was blown away.”
Another place of homage, the exhibition dedicated to him currently in Groningen, northern Netherlands, having been around the world, and for which tickets were selling at a crazy speed. Lemstra Suzanna, 58, her voice trembling with emotion, expressed his admiration: “I loved above all his music, but he was also someone who showed that we should not be afraid of being oneself and even it is still possible to reinvent itself. ”
In Los Angeles, on Hollywood Boulevard, an anonymous crowd also went on his star, celebrating the interpreter of Modern Love and dropping flowers.
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