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Bowie tributes around the world a year after his death

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NEW YORK: Bearing flowers, lipstick and glitter, fans around the world on Tuesday paid tribute to rock icon David Bowie a year after his shocking death.

Bouquets of flowers appeared once again outside the New York apartment where Bowie spent his fi nal years, recreating the festive and communal scene that emerged after he passed away on Jan 10 last year.

Sabrina Rosneck, a student from Detroit who came to New York for a Bowie anniversar­y concert, slipped a letter into the makeshift memorial outside The Starman’s Soho home.

“I leave him a card whenever I come to New York. I feel like he sort of understand­s people and he kind of understood me even though he didn’t know me, so I just want to update him on my life and how it’s going,” she said.

Like many fans, Rosneck credited Bowie – who constantly reinvented himself in a halfcentur­y career that spanned from glam rock to electronic­a to disco – with helping people accept themselves.

Aurelio Ayala III, who flew to New York from Seattle, said that discoverin­g Bowie transforme­d his youth in Texas, where he dyed his hair orange in the rocker’s honor and didn’t look back.

“He allowed me to express myself the way I wanted,” the 56-year- old said on the sidewalk outside Bowie’s apartment, between the building’s dumpster and slushy snow.

“Living in Texas you are looked upon if you’re a little different. I never really cared – and to this day, I don’t care.”

Bowie died from an undisclose­d battle with cancer two days after releasing his last album, “Blackstar,” a work of hard- driving jazz that won glowing reviews.

Columbia Records on Sunday released three additional tracks from the “Blackstar” sessions in a digital EP to celebrate what would have been Bowie’s 70th birthday.

Bowie’s veteran producer Tony Visconti, one of the few people to whom the rocker had confided his illness, said he has “been through every stage of grief in the past

I leave him a card whenever I come to New York. I feel like he sort of understand­s people and he kind of understood me even though he didn’t know me. Sabrina Rosneck, student

365 days.”

Visconti, writing on Facebook, recalled that Bowie had been “so much stronger, more positive and bursting with creativity” when making “Blackstar.”

“Our team, the band, the technician­s and everyone who visited us in the studio kept shooting glances at each other – is this really happening?” he recalled of the fi nal recording sessions. — AFP

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Actress Kiersey Clemons attends Marie Claire’s Image Maker Awards 2017 at Catch LA on Tuesday in West Hollywood, California. — AFP photo
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