DAVID BOWIE: YOU'RE NOT ALONE BEHIND THE SCENES PHOTOS AT PARTY FOR MAJOR SHOW

Gary Kemp, Damian Lewis and Boy George at David Bowie: You're Not Alone (Photo by Dave Benett)

[London, Thursday 23 April 2026] A star-studded party this week celebrated the continuing influence of David Bowie and the opening of a major new production: David Bowie: You're Not Alone.

The immersive show transports visitors into the iconic performances and creative mind and spirit of one of the world's most visionary and influential artists, using huge projections on the walls and floor of Lightroom, in London's King's Cross. Tickets are on sale now.

The show is made up of archive interviews and performance footage, including rarely seen material, and artists at the premiere on Tuesday 21st April included Noel Gallagher, David Gilmour, Anna Calvi, Alison Mosshart, Bobby Gillespie and Natalie Appleton.

Noel Gallagher watches David Bowie: You're Not Alone at Lightroom (Photo by Justin Sutcliffe)

Singer and songwriter Anna Calvi said: "It's amazing - there is something happening on every wall so you feel completely immersed in the story and immersed in his particular world. I never got to see him play live so this for me is the closest I'll ever get. There were some shots when he was playing heroes, for example, where you really felt like you were in the crowd, which is such an amazing experience."

Anna Calvi (Photo by Justin Sutcliffe)

My Bloody Valentine's Bilinda Butcher said: "It was so well done, it was just amazing. Really brilliant. I really enjoyed it. I was totally immersed in it...I just totally loved it. I felt quite emotional throughout the whole thing. I think he truly is an icon."

Comedian and Last One Laughing co-host Roisin Conaty said: "I'm a huge Bowie fan and tonight I was so excited, but it was actually better than I expected. It's such an amazing experience because it's really immersive, it's really stunning, and it feels really hypnotic. At the end you feel very relaxed and also very moved. It's incredible. It's beautiful. It's really, really beautiful and poetic."

Nxdia and Roisin Conaty CREDIT Dave Benett

Singer Nxdia said: "I'm a massive Bowie fan and I thought tonight was really special. I felt completely eclipsed in that room! You were really in it. He was so ahead of his time, in that he embodies a sense of freedom that I really want to have as an artist and as a person."

All Saints' Natalie Appleton said: "Bowie was an absolute enigma, a legend, a magnetic artist - one of a kind... and he was just gorgeous, in every era. I'm like, oh my God, he's so bloody hot."

Natalie Appleton and son Ace Howlett (Picture by Dave Benett)

Boy George said: "[David Bowie and I] met a few times. I was always a massive fan, so I never edged myself into believing that we were friends. I was always on the outside of, you know, being a fan, and I think he loved that, you know! David Bowie is the person where, whenever I do anything, I was like: what would Bowie do?"

Boy George with Sex Pistol Paul Cook and his wife Jeni (Photo by Dave Benett)

Will Irvine from Daytime TV said: "Tonight was emotional and inspiring...I saw it more as a look behind the curtain of who he was, rather than the characters that he kind of portrayed, almost the insecurities behind them and the reasons that they came out. That was incredibly inspiring to me.

"It feels like you're at a Bowie gig when the live footage is playing - the noise hits you in the chest. I was never lucky enough to go to a show but it felt like I was there and felt like we kind of went back in time."

Daytime TV's Will Irvine, John Caddick, Naomi Boschetti and Gareth Thompson (Photo by Dave Benett)

Actor Alex Jennings said: "It was absolutely exhilarating and incredibly moving, I cried twice. Astonishing performer. Incredible. Influential talent. You know, I was always fascinated by him as a performer. And it's an incredible experience. Incredible, really. I found it very, very moving."

Comedian Ivo Graham said: "I'm a huge David Bowie fan. I'm a big fan of trying to keep that memory of his sort of majesty and genius as fresh and as constant as possible. So having the chance to come and be just surrounded by his music and his work, his fashion and his vision in a space like the Lightroom was just incredible."

Luvcat (Photo by Dave Benett

Featuring the musician as its sole voice, David Bowie: You're Not Alone is both a multimedia spectacle and an intimate and revealing self-portrait, produced by 59, a Journey studio.

Executive producer David Sabel said: "The response to David Bowie: You're Not Alone has been incredible. You can see from the premiere's turnout the impact he had on the generations of artists that followed. His curiosity and creativity meant that his impact has been felt across the cultural world, inspiring so many others." 

Director Mark Grimmer said: "The show is split across thematic chapters, and between those we shine a light on some of the iconic performances from across Bowie's career. We've had access, via the Bowie Archive, to live footage and multi-tracks from sessions, and we've created something where you really feel like you're inside the story. Incredible original animation, graphic design and sound design have been used to make the audience feel they are up close and personal with one of the world's great musical artists."

Lightroom chief executive Richard Slaney said: "Lightroom has worked with creative partners from David Hockney to Tom Hanks, Anna Wintour to the crew of Artemis II.  There's no musical artist that embodies Lightroom's range of programming more than David Bowie and no one more worthy of our first large scale music production. His adventurousness, boldness and creativity make him the perfect subject for this new way of storytelling."

The 360° experience, produced by Lightroom and designed by 59, a Journey studio, is written and directed by 59's Mark Grimmer (Creative Director for the V&A's David Bowie Is exhibition) and Tom Wexler. You're Not Alone will showcase some of Bowie's landmark performances that redefined popular culture, using a mixture of iconic, rarely seen and never-before-exhibited material, selected from thousands of hours of film in the vaults of the David Bowie Archive in New York,  from Space Oddity through Diamond Dogs and "Heroes" to ★. Audiences will have the chance to feel they have travelled through time to experience Bowie in performance - up close and first-hand. Each track in the show has been newly reconfigured to utilise Lightroom's specialised spatial audio system by multiple Olivier and Tony award-winning sound designer Gareth Fry (Harry Potter & The Cursed Child, David Bowie Is).

The show builds on Lightroom's growing repertoire of critically acclaimed shows that have now been seen by over 1.5 million visitors globally, including creative collaborations with David Hockney, Tom Hanks, Anna Wintour and Vogue and Apple TV.

David Bowie: You're Not Alone is being made in close collaboration with and authorized by the David Bowie Estate.

Tickets for David Bowie: You're Not Alone will go on sale on 10 February at 7pm, priced from £25 for adults and £15 for students and concessions. 

Tickets will be available from 22 April until 28 June, with more tickets being released for summer soon. To be the first to hear about the next ticket release sign up to Lightroom's mailing list here.