David Bowie honoured with stone on London’s Music Walk of Fame

LONDON, Sept 22 (Reuters) – David Bowie was honoured with a paving stone on the London Music Stroll of Fame on Thursday, becoming a member of the likes of The Who, Amy Winehouse, Insanity and Soul II Soul on the cultural attraction path within the metropolis’s famed Camden City space.

Depicting a music file with the phrase “icon” on it, the stone was unveiled at a ceremony the place Bowie’s hits had been performed.

“It is one other landmark for his legacy mainly music, the movies, the movies, and every thing he did for the tradition,” Woody Woodmansey, who was a drummer in Bowie’s backing ensemble Spiders from Mars and helped unveil the stone, advised Reuters.

“He was simply a tremendous artist – 24/7 he was on the job and it at all times confirmed within the merchandise. To have the ability to transfer via all of the completely different characters and the musical genres that he did and pull it off, I do not assume anyone’s achieved that ever, (he was) one in every of a form, distinctive.”

In a nod to the starry sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard, the London Music Stroll of Fame was launched in 2019 with rockers The Who the primary to be honoured.

The COVID-19 pandemic paused new unveilings, with Bowie’s the primary since March 2020. It follows the discharge this month of documentary “Moonage Daydream” concerning the singer-songwriter, who died from most cancers in 2016, aged 69.

“The movie … gave us the catalyst to return again with David and unlock the remainder of the schedule,” Lee Bennett, founding father of the Music Stroll of Fame, stated.

“(There was) nobody higher to return again with. Of any artist that we will consider within the final 50 years, the chameleon that David was, how he touched many generations, lives, it simply all collided without delay that this (was) the precise particular person to return again with.”

Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Enhancing by Alison Williams

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