Story highlights
- David Bowie's publicist did not elaborate on the kind of cancer
- Bowie was without parallel in his showmanship
(CNN)David Bowie, whose incomparable sound and chameleon-like ability to reinvent himself made him a pop music fixture for more than four decades, has died. He was 69.
Bowie died Sunday after an 18-month battle with cancer, his publicist Steve Martin told CNN.
"David Bowie died peacefully today surr