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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Sammy Gecsoyler

‘The Beethoven of our day’: Fans on what David Bowie meant to them 10 years after his death

A group of middle-aged people dressed for winter in front of a mural depicting David Bowie as Aladdin Sane with globes floating around his image.
A group of David Bowie fans sing one of his songs at the Starman memorial in Brixton. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The Guardian

For Debbie Hilton, David Bowie meant “everything”. “My house is a shrine to him. He’s still alive in my house. My Christmas tree was David Bowie, even my bedding is Bowie,” she said.

She travelled from Liverpool to join her fellow Bowie devotees at the Starman memorial in Brixton, south London, where the singer was born, to pay their respects on the anniversary of his death.

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