Death of David Bowie The mural features Bowie as he appeared on his iconic "Aladdin Sane" album cover, with a lightning flash across his face. In Berlin, fans left flowers outside the flat in which Bowie and Iggy Pop had lived while Bowie created his seminal "Berlin trilogy" of albums—"Low", "Heroes" and "Lodger"—in the late 1970s as well as Pop's albums "The Idiot" and "Lust for Life" (which Bowie produced). Flowers were also left outside Bowie’s New York City apartment and next to his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. In Milan, fans held a flash mob memorial service in
Berlin Trilogy retreated to Berlin in a further attempt to escape his addiction and the spotlight: For many years Berlin had appealed to me as a sort of sanctuary-like situation. It was one of the few cities where I could move around in virtual anonymity. I was going broke; it was cheap to live. For some reason, Berliners just didn't care. Well, not about an English rock singer, anyway. While sharing an apartment with Pop, Bowie became interested in the German music scene, including acts such as Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and Neu!. Before moving to the apartment on Hauptstraße, Pop and Bowie