After an 18-month battle for liver cancer, cultural icon David Bowie passed away on Sunday, Jan. 10, two days after his 69th birthday. Here is a snapshot of the mourning and tributes that followed.
Bowie dominated the news in London on Jan. 12, following the announcement of his death on Sunday. | AP Crowds gather in his birthplace of Brixton, South London on Monday night to celebrate the life. | REUTERS A fan sings Bowie songs to crowds outside the Ritzy cinema in Brixton. | AFP-JIJI A man holds a 10 Brixton Pounds note, which is decorated with an image of David Bowie. | REUTERS Two young fans in the crowd wear Bowie merchandise and Ziggy Stardust face makeup in his honor. | AFP-JIJI The statue of Sir Henry Tate, an English philanthropist, is decorated with the same facial painting. | AFP-JIJI An ad for the cosmetic range of David Bowie’s wife Iman has also been embellished a la Ziggy Stardust in Brixton, south London. | AP Another woman with her face painted like Ziggy Stardust pays her respects outside a house believed to be the childhood home of David Bowie in Brixton, south London. | AFP-JIJI A woman with a Ziggy Stardust tattoo gets emotional as she visits the same mural. | REUTERS Fans in New York also commemorate the icon at a makeshift memorial outside his New York apartment building on Jan. 11. | AFP-JIJI Bianca Soto wipes a tear from her eye while she pays her respects at the New York memorial. | AP Fans in Los Angeles leave tributes by his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday. | REUTERS Fans leave flowers at a bandstand named after David Bowie where he once performed in Beckenham, South London, Jan. 11. | REUTERS Flowers are left beneath a plaque marking the location of the cover photo for Bowie’s 'Ziggy Stardust' album in central London, Jan. 13. | AFP-JIJI Crowds gather during a wake outside David Bowie's former home in Berlin on Monday. | AFP-JIJI Shoppers look at a CD stand dedicated to David Bowie at a Tower Records store in Shibuya, Tokyo on Tuesday. | AP Bowie fans pose as they wait to hear collaborators Tony Visconti and Mick Woodmansey perform Bowie's 1970 album 'The Man Who Sold The World' at Toronto's Opera House concert venue, Jan. 12. | NATHAN DENETTE/ THE CANADIAN PRESS VIA AP Glenn Gregory, left, drummer Mick Woodmansey, and fellow collaborator with David Bowie, Tony Visconti, right, perform as the group Holy Holy, at a tribute show to Bowie. | NATHAN DENETTE/ THE CANADIAN PRESS VIA AP