David Bowie plays Maryland’s Capital Centre, 1974 (Hunter Desportes)

On his first trip to the U.S. in 1971, Bowie was detained by immigration officials at Dulles Airport who were “suspicious of his fey manner and flowing pre-Raphaelite locks,” according to Bowie biographer Paul Trynka. He later made his way to Silver Spring, stopping at the family home of Mercury Records’ Ron Oberman and chowing down at a local restaurant, Washington City Paper recalls.

Bowie would go on to play numerous concerts at Maryland’s Capital Centre, including a stop on his Diamond Dogs tour in 1974. Thirty years later, he played his final local gig: a 2004 concert in Fairfax. Reviewing the show for the Washington Post, Dave McKenna wrote, “with a set that covered more than three decades of classic recordings in two-plus hours, David Bowie reminded a crowded house at the Patriot Center on Sunday how far ahead of the curve he so often was.”

Fans of the late music and style beacon gathered for a memorial in D.C.’s Malcolm X Park last night, and H Street hangout Sticky Rice hosted a Bowie karaoke session. But if you missed out, there’s plenty Bowie mourning/celebrating left to do in the capital region.

Check out this list of local tributes, below. (Did we overlook one? Drop a comment below, tweet at us or email bandwidth@wamu.org.)

State of the Union/David Bowie tribute
Jan. 12 at JR’s Bar & Grill
This Dupont Circle bar offers a double whammy tonight: a drinking game for President Obama’s final State of the Union address plus a Bowie tribute.

David Bowie Tribute Party
Jan. 14 at Rock & Roll Hotel
At this free party, DJ Ed the Metaphysical spins Bowie all night on the Rock & Roll Hotel’s second floor.

Let’s Dance
Jan. 14 at The Crown in Baltimore
David Bowie’s 1983 single “Let’s Dance” was one of his most popular songs ever, and his album by the same name is his top-selling record to date. No wonder — both are dance-floor gold to this day. Thursday in Baltimore, DJ Pancakes spins a night of ’80s dance tunes, sprinkled liberally with Bowie’s poppiest.

Holy Holy plays The Man Who Sold the World
Jan. 14 at Birchmere
Booked before news broke of Bowie’s death, this show at Alexandria’s Birchmere features longtime Bowie producer Tony Visconti and ex-Bowie drummer Woody Woodmansey playing the late star’s third album, The Man Who Sold the World, in full. As far as local Bowie tributes go, this is as real as it gets.

A Queer Tribute to David Bowie
Feb. 13 at Phase 1
Queer-friendly dance party GndrF?ck “celebrates Trans* folk from all around the spectrum,” according to its Facebook page. Next month, the soirée focuses on tunes from Bowie, whose famous gender play and bisexuality made him an icon for queer people everywhere. Resident DJ Ego spins.

Top photo by Flickr user Sarah Stierch and 1974 Bowie image by Hunter Desportes used under a Creative Commons license.

“The picture I have in my head is of him cracking up in the studio,” Gabrels says. “Because we just used to be able to make each other laugh.”

Gabrels tells NPR’s Ari Shapiro that, at a young age, he was drawn to Bowie’s sense of pure adventure, which is maybe how he later ended up sawing a water cooler in half to make a cool vocal effect that never worked.

“We rode on tour buses together,” Gabrels says. “We shared apartments together. We borrowed socks from each other.”

What kind of socks did the visual icon wear? “The gold-tipped, sheer black socks.”

Yes, the same kind you find in 10-for-$10 bags. Funny man, that Bowie.

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A statement on Bowie’s Facebook page said that he died peacefully, “surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer.”

His son, Duncan Jones, confirmed the news on Twitter.

Bowie’s death comes just days after the release of his album “Blackstar.” His longtime producer Tony Visconti called that album a “parting gift,” in a post on Facebook.

Many social media users were pointing to a newly released music video from his final single, Lazarus, which opens with the words “Look up here, I’m in heaven.”

“Lazarus is probably the most haunting sign-off any musician has given,” said one Twitter user.

British Prime Minister David Cameron wrote on Facebook that Bowie “provided a soundtrack to our lives,” and left “a body of work that people will still be listening to in a 100 years time.”

Scores of musicians emphasized Bowie’s influence on their work:

Tributes to the “Space Oddity” singer were not confined to Earth. British astronaut Tim Peake tweeted from the International Space Station.

This was the scene at one London tube station today:

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“David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18-month battle with cancer,” it read.

Bowie’s death was confirmed by his son, Duncan Jones, who tweeted, “Very sorry and sad to say it’s true. I’ll be offline for a while. Love to all.”

The singer released his latest album, Blackstar, on his birthday on Friday. The New York Times described the album as “typically enigmatic and exploratory.”

In a career that spanned decades and incorporated various personas, including Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke, Bowie was known for his innovative and wide-ranging musical styles and his highly theatrical stage presentation.

John Covach, director of the Institute for Popular Music at the University of Rochester, highlighted Bowie’s influence on rock in the 1970s, singling out the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust for the “Ziggy Stardust” persona that Bowie adopted.

Covach adds:

“Jim Morrison had flirted with the persona of the Lizard King already in the late 1960s, and the donning of a persona in UK pop singing could be traced back at least to Screaming Lord Sutch in the early to mid 1960s. Like Alice Cooper and Peter Gabriel at about the same time, Bowie’s performances became theatrical in ways that focused on the persona, and these shows took rock performance to new production levels, with greater emphasis on staging and costumes.

“Bowie’s creative and performing persona would change from album to album and from tour to tour, permitting him to transform his music in ways that fans might not have embraced in other artists (Madonna would adopt a similar strategy beginning in the 1980s).”

The New York Times reports:

“Mr. Bowie was his generation’s standard-bearer for rock as theater: something constructed and inflated yet sincere in its artifice, saying more than naturalism could. With a voice that dipped down to baritone and leaped into falsetto, he was complexly androgynous, an explorer of human impulses that could not be quantified.

“He also pushed the limits of ‘Fashion’ and ‘Fame,’ writing songs with those titles and also thinking deeply about the possibilities and strictures of pop renown.”

Bowie’s popularity hit another peak in the ’80s with the release of Let’s Dance. Hit singles from that album included the title track as well as “Modern Love” and “China Girl.”

In addition to his musical career, Bowie was an actor, appearing in films including The Man Who Fell to Earth and Labyrinth.

Bowie is survived by two children and his wife, the model Iman.

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