After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, David Bowie made an emotional last visit to the United Kingdom to say good-bye.
The music legend took his daughter Lexi, 15, and his wife Iman, 60, to London and spent the week to see the sights. He even took them to his childhood haunts.
A photo showing a dapper Bowie in a fedora was published on Friday to mark his 69th birthday. He died two days later of liver cancer.
In the summer of 2014, Bowie took his family to London where they walked incognito among the crowds, visited the Tower of London with a bodyguard discretely in tow.
The family even went on the iconic London Eye and wasn't recognized. They were staying in Knightsbridge's five-star Jumeirah Carlton Tower during this visit.
Despite his fear of flying, the singer came to the U.K. A driver took him to Brixton in south London where he was born. He visited the property in Stansfield Road where he was born as David Robert Jone to mother Peggy and dad Haywood 'John' Jones.
Bowie then went to Plaistow Grove in Bromley where his family moved to when he was just six. This is followed by a visit to Foxgrove Road, in Beckenham, where he lived in March 1969. His daughter Lixi even took a photo of his father outside. Iman mentioned parts of the trip in an interview in the same year.
'We went this summer. And no one knew we were there. We flew in on the jet to Luton and every day we went and did different things and the press never knew,' Iman said in an interview with The Guardian.
The family are still in discussions about what to do for Bowie's funeral. It is thought that the family may opt for a small private service but no decisions have been made so far.
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