A music festival organizer helped make the Texas capital of Austin a little bit funkier this week. He put up a skillfully crafted sign that dubbed a downtown road David Bowie Street.
The city of Austin was none too pleased about what it sees as vandalism to a street named for Alamo defender James "Jim" Bowie. They will allow, however, the sign to stay up until next week to honor the British music great, who died a few days ago and wrote hits such as "Changes."The Austin Department of Transportation said, "We appreciate Austin?s reputation as the live music capital of the world and recognize David Bowie for all he did for the music industry and more." The lawyer for Roland Swenson, co-founder of the South by Southwest festival, said Swenson put up the sign out of show of respect for the music great.
