Overview
- London marks the anniversary with a free daylong concert near Brixton and an announcement that Bowie’s childhood cottage in Bromley will be restored and opened to the public.
- Radio Monitor reports roughly 200,000 Bowie tracks aired annually on UK radio, about twice the level of 2016.
- Channel 4 has released The Final Act, a documentary on Bowie’s career and final period, as the V&A’s new David Bowie Center preserves more than 90,000 items from his archive.
- Paul Morley’s book David Bowie. Oltre lo spazio e il tempo was published on January 9, adding fresh scholarship to the commemorations.
- Blackstar arrived on January 8, 2016, two days before Bowie died at 69 after an approximately 18‑month private cancer illness, with the family’s Facebook announcement initially met with public skepticism.