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You're listening to the BBC World Service. I'm Behesead Bulur and in this program I'll be considering the legacy of the singer David Bowie

on the news of his death his fans gathered in Brixton in South London where he was born

to pay tribute.

This is round control to Major Tom.

You've really made the great.

People respect him here, you know, he's a working boy done good. No, he only lived here for six years, but I think he came back and apparently he got involved in some community projects here as well.

I think what he gave me at a very young age,

I've always been an outsider.

And what he gave us was it was okay to be different,

but it was okay to be weird,

weird, that it was okay to be gay, to be by.

And he gave people strength that to be different

is not a bad thing. I don't think punk would have happened in the way it did. I don't

think they'd be a Madonna. He gave so much to so many people.

In all the words devoted to the death of David Bowie, no one has said he was one of the

world's great singers, and not all of his work won popular acclaim, but his artistic ambition seemed to connect him to an impressively wide range of people.

Hip-Hops Karnier West said Bowie was one of the most important musicians to have inspired his work.

And when the news came, the Vatican's chief spokesman, Cardinal Jo Fran Kravasi,

tweeted the lyrics to one of his songs.

To check ignition and may God's love be with you.

Even a real astronaut tweeted from outer space as the UK's Tim Peek paid tribute from the international space. National Space Station. This is ground control to major tongue.

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