Celebrities pay tribute to David Bowie after learning of the pop legend's shock death.

News of 69-year-old pop legend David Bowie’s death after a private battle with cancer shocked the world tonight.

Fans the world over are grieving as social media sites fill with tributes to the musical master of reinvention.

Iman Abdulmajid, Bowie’s wife of almost 24 years, also took to social media to pay tribute to her late husband, posting one image on Instagram that read “sometimes you don’t know the true vale of a moment until it becomes a memory.”

Many celebrities are also sharing their sadness at the loss of one of their own – a respected innovator, a mentor and a friend to many.