A David Bowie street inaugurated in the 13th arrondissement of Paris next week

He was singing Dancing in the Street and it will soon be possible to dance in a street in his name in the capital, or even to stay there. Rue David Bowie will be inaugurated on Monday January 8, 2024 at 4:15 p.m. in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, at 61 avenue Pierre-Mendès-France, in accordance with a decision of the Paris Council taken in February 2020. The date of January 8 does not was not chosen at random: it corresponds to the date of birth of the flamboyant British musician, who died in January 2016, who would have celebrated his 77th birthday that day.

An exceptional evening and a Bowie exhibition

The tribute to the creator of Ziggy Stardust will continue a little later the same day in the village hall of the 13th town hall, which is organizing an exceptional evening in honor of David Bowie. Scheduled for free access from 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., it will benite by the journalist, writer and musician Jérôme Soligny, friend and biographer of the artist. Highlight of the evening: a concert by pianist and producer Clifford Slapper, who has produced an album of new interpretations of Thin White Duke songs in piano-voice, Bowie Songs One.

The town hall of the 13th is definitely pulling out all the stops since it has also planned a unique exhibition around the author of Space Oddity And Heroes, in the Athena Gallery, within the town hall itself. An exhibition designed by two childhood friends of Bowie, the photographer Geoff MacCormack and the painter George Underwood, who signed the memorable visuals for the covers of Hunky Dory and of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars. (The same incidentally beat him up during a dispute over a girl, dilating one of Bowie’s pupils for life, what we call anisocoria, which in no way altered their friendship). This exhibition, inaugurated Thursday January 4, will only be visible until January 14.