Mercury prize pays tribute to David Bowie

By The Newsroom

Published 16th Sep 2016, 10:44 BST

Updated 5th Oct 2016, 14:20 BST

David Bowie performing live onstage.
Picture credit: Yui Mok/PA Photos. — David Bowie performing live onstage. Picture credit: Yui Mok/PA Photos.

David Bowie's musical influence has been celebrated at the first Mercury Prize awards since his death eight months ago.

Bowie died of cancer in January two days after his 69th birthday and the release of his final album Blackstar.

Blackstar - which explores illness, death and heaven - was his third nomination for the prestigious prize after Heathen in 2002 and The Next Day in 2013.