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 on the album started before Bowie's own "Low", Pop's "The Idiot" is often referred to as the unofficial beginning of Bowie's Berlin period, though the two albums were recorded almost concurrently. The album "Low" (1977) was recorded as Bowie grappled with difficult personal issues, including a troubled marriage and drug dependence: "There's oodles of pain in the "Low" album. That was my first attempt to kick cocaine, so that was an awful lot of pain. And I moved to Berlin to do it. I moved out of the coke centre of the world ["i.e.", Los Angeles] into the smack centre