David Bowie: Hundreds gather in Brixton to sing for 'Starman'

Hundreds of devoted David Bowie fans turned out in the late singer's "hometown" of Brixton to sing songs in his honour, hours after news of the icon's death shocked the world.

Bowie was born in the south London district, and fans had gathered throughout the day after it was announced that he had died, aged 69.

The crowds united in singing a number of the pop legend's hits, including his 1970s classic Starman.

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The party centred around Brixton's Ritzy cinema, while tributes had also been left outside a property thought to have been his childhood home in Stansfield Road.

Earlier, devastated followers laid candles and stood in vigil next to a mural of the singer, depicting him from the cover of his 1973 album Aladdin Sane.

Many messages paid tribute to a man widely thought to have changed the course of popular music and culture.

Some called for a special concert to be held in Brixton in Bowie's honour, while others hailed a "legend" who "transgressed gender and was just an inspiration for all kinds of people who felt like they didn't fit in".

Tributes were also paid in other parts of the world, including the United States, where flowers were laid outside the singer's New York apartment, and Berlin, where the singer had lived during a fruitful creative period in the 1970s.