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Depicting a music record with the word "icon"
on it, the stone was unveiled at a ceremony where Bowie's hits
were played.
"It's another landmark for his legacy basically music, the
films, the videos, and everything he did for the culture," Woody
Woodmansey, who was a drummer in Bowie's backing ensemble
Spiders from Mars and helped unveil the stone, told Reuters.
"He was just an amazing artist - 24/7 he was on the job and it
always showed in the products. To be able to move through all
the different characters and the musical genres that he did and
pull it off, I don't think anybody's achieved that ever, (he
was) one of a kind, unique."
In a nod to the starry sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard, the
London Music Walk of Fame was launched in 2019 with rockers The
Who the first to be honoured.
The COVID-19 pandemic paused new unveilings, with Bowie's the
first since March 2020. It follows the release this month of
documentary "Moonage Daydream" about the singer-songwriter, who
died from cancer in 2016, aged 69.
"The film ... gave us the catalyst to come back with David and
unlock the rest of the schedule," Lee Bennett, founder of the
Music Walk of Fame, said.
"(There was) no one better to come back with. Of any artist that
we can think of in the last 50 years, the chameleon that David
was, how he touched many generations, lives, it just all
collided at once that this (was) the right person to come back
with."
(Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Alison
Williams)
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