A avenue in Paris named after David Bowie has formally opened on what would have been the late icon’s 77th birthday.

Information that the French capital can be naming a avenue after him was first shared again in 2020, when Mayor Jérôme Coumet – a professed fan of Bowie – revealed that he was planning the transfer.

Final week it was confirmed that it might formally open on his birthday (January 8) and yesterday Paris honoured Bowie by unveiling the brand new avenue – The Rue David Bowie – which additionally featured his 12 months of beginning and demise. You may view the disclosing under.

It’s located between two fashionable workplace buildings, together with the headquarters of stories publications Le Monde and L’Obs and opens onto Avenue Pierre-Mendes-France and can hook up with the longer term bridge linking the avenue to Boulevard de l’Hopital, close to Austerlitz prepare station and Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital.

Rue David Bowie unveiled within the thirteenth in Paris. It’s close to Gare d’Austerlitz. It’ll be a should see vacation spot for the tens of millions that go to Paris yearly. It’ll be a motive to go to for tens of millions of others. #RueDavidBowie #Paris 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 pic.twitter.com/ANIe2aAzVq

— Nick O’Donnell (@gnickodonnell) January 8, 2024

Paris a désormais sa rue David Bowie.
Découvrez les secrets and techniques de l’odonymie dans la capitale.https://t.co/dTOsRCeWGc pic.twitter.com/c5YyQ0EXvB

— Rédaction de France Tradition (@FC_actu) January 8, 2024

The tribute celebrates Bowie’s first Paris efficiency in 1965 – his first outdoors the UK – and his lasting impression on music, style selections, theatrical aura, and standard tradition.

An inauguration get together was additionally held at Salle des Fetes that very same day to have a good time the launch, and quite a lot of images and work associated to the singer shall be showcased on the Galerie Athéna till January 14.

Whereas the UK doesn’t but have a avenue named after the late music legend, his birthplace of Brixton does have a well-known mural of the singer, painted by Australian artist James Cochran.

Bowie died in 2016, following a battle with most cancers.

In the meantime, Wilco additionally shared a canopy of Bowie’s ‘House Oddity’ on the late icon’s birthday.

One other launch introduced to mark Bowie’s birthday is a brand new ‘Ziggy Stardust’- period album set to be launched on File Retailer Day this 12 months.

‘Ready In The Sky (Earlier than The Starman Got here To Earth)’ is a group of recordings from Trident Studios in 1971, and options nearly all of songs that might go on to kind the legendary ‘The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars’ album.

Included on the brand new album however not on ‘Ziggy Stardust’ are 4 songs together with a canopy of Chuck Berry‘s ‘Spherical And Spherical’.