of rock star and trendsetter david bowie. he died sunday after an 18-month long battle with cancer, ending a five decade career that spanned music, film, stage and fashion. fans lit candles and left flowers outside his home in new york city. another memorial was growing outside an apartment building in berlin where he once lived. a hero to millions, including prime minister david cameron. >> genius is an overused word. but i think musically, creatively, artistically, david bowie was a genius. for someone my age, he provided a lot of the soundtrack of my lives from the first time i heard "space oddity" to watching our athletes appear to the strains of "heroes." >> reporter: bowie turned 69 last friday, the same day he released his final album "black star," which is now rocketing up the pop charts. "black star" is the top selling album on i-tunes. and 2002's "the best of bowie" is number two. mark phillips looks back on his life and remarkable career. >> reporter: for a man known for so many images, this will be the last and enduring one of david bowie, the one from his latest his 69

are growing in all corners of the globe after the death of rock star and trendsetter david bowie. he died sunday after an 18-month long battle with cancer, ending a five decade career that spanned music, film, stage and fashion. fans lit candles and left no flowers outside his home in new york city. and in london, where he was a prime minister david cameron. >> genius is an overused word. but he was a genius. for someone my age, he provided a lot of the soundtrack of my lives, from "space track odd question" to the strains of "heroes." >> reporter: bowie turned 69 last friday, the same day he released his final album "black star," which is now rocketing up the pop charts. it is the top selling album on i tunes. mark phillips looks back on his life. >> reporter: for a man known for so many images, this will be the last and enduring one of david bowie, the one from his latest album released last friday on i've got scars that can't be seen >> reporter: the deathbed imagery and lyrics seemed to suggest he not only knew what was coming, he turned his death into his last artistic event

master of reinvention. there is a worldwide outpouring of affection for music legend david bowie. also tonight, the raid that recaptured a drug kingpin, and the actor says, "i've got when should women be screened for breast cancer? new recommendations tonight. and the first billion dollar lottery jackpot. some people are already cashing in. >>> this is the "cbs overnight >> david bowie spanned more than 140 million records sold, dozens of movies and broadway plays. always changing, he set trends and then moved on. he died sunday of cancer, and as word spread, fans gathered in his native london and his adopted home, new york, to remember a man who once called himself a collector of personalities. anthony masosolooks back. >> reporter: like the lost astronaut major tom in his 1969 hit "space oddity" -- ground control to major tom >> reporter: david bowie was always traveling between worlds. take your protein pills and put your helmet on >> reporter: his music and image perpetually morphing. ch-ch-ch-changes to the thin white duke, bowie would restlessly reinvent himself. >> i glip from o

saving experiences if we >>> even after his death, rock star, trendsetter, david bowie continues to have a major impact on the music business. his album, "black star" released friday two days before he passed away is now numbererne on itunes. five of ten albums are bowie classics. 60 minutes did a series of bowie in 2003. none of the footage was ever aired. the man who fell to eart describes how he never liked hearing himself sing and so much of his music deals with lonliness. >> searching for music is ke searching for god. they're very similar. there is an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unseeable, then speakable, all those things comes into being, composer, writing music and searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist. somebody asked me the e mbest answer. they said why do you d dwhat you do? i thought, boy that is, that is such an awful question to answer. i really had to think about that. i guess taking away all of the theatrics or costuming and all the kind of outer layers of what it is. i am a writer, what i do, i write. i started examining

and determined this enemy can be. >>> david bowie never had a number one album, but that is about to change. ♪ look up here ♪ i'm in heaven >> billboard says "blackstar" is headed to the top with 130,000 albums expected to sl this week. the album debuted friday. bowie died of cancer on sunday. >> in an interview with cnn, vice president joe biden revealed a touching moment with president obama. the subject was biden's son, beau, delaware's attorney general who was battling cancer. >> i said, "you know, my concern is, i said if beau resigns he has no, there is no, nothing to fall back on, his salary." i said, "but i worked it out. jill and i will sell the house. we will be in good shape." he got up, he said, don't sell the house. promise me you won't sell the house. he will be mad at me saying this. he said i will give you the money. whatever you need, don't, joe, promise me. promise me. i don't think we will have to anyway. he said promise me. >> beau biden lost his battle with cancer last spring. and we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> we have breaking news this morning. >> t

secret offer from the president when we come back. >>> david bowie never had a number one album, but that is about to change. billboard says black star is headed to the top with 130,000 albums expected to sell this week. the album debuted friday. bowie died of cancer on sunday. in an interview with cnn, vice president joe biden has revealed a touching moment with president obama. the subject was biden's son beau, delaware's attorney general, who was battling cancer. >> i said, you know, my concern is, i said, if beau resigns, he had no, there, there's no -- nothing to fall back on. his salary, i said but i worked it out. i said, jill and i will sell the house. he got up. don't sell the house. promise me you won't sell the house. he will be mad at me saying this. he said whatever you need. i will give you the money. i said i don't think we will have to. he said promise me. beau biden lost his battle with cancer last spring. and we'll be right back. >> first lady michelle obama invited more than a dozen people to sit with her in the house chamber tonight for the state of the union addr

is the "cbs overnight news." >> david bowie spanned generations. more than 140 million records sold, dozens of movies and broadway plays. always changing, he set trends and then moved on. he died sunday of cancer, and as word spread today, fans gathered in his native london and his adopted home, new york, to remember a man who once called himself a collector of personalities. >> reporter: like the lost astronaut major tom in his 1969 hit "space oddity" -- ground control to major top >> reporter: david bowie was always traveling between worlds. take your protein pills and put your helmet on >> reporter: his music and image perpetually morphing. ch-ch-ch-changes >> reporter: from ziggy stardust to the thin white duke, bowie would restlessly reinvent himself. >> i glip from one thing to another a lot. >> glip? >> reporter: he made a rare effort to explain himself on the dick cavett show in 1974. >> i'm a storyteller and a story writer. i decided i prefefred to enact a myself. >> reporter: even his stage name was an invention. born david jones in britain, he changed his last name to avo

. just a week after david bowie. their fellow musicians. >> yeah. because who's next? >> reporter: talking with graham nash about another topic this week, we kept coming back to the shock of it. >> there was something particularly jarring about both of them. i don't know what. >> because it was completely unexpected. >> yeah. >> i mean, glenn was what, 67? >> yeah. >> wow. bowie's 69. >> are you feeling the clock any more after this month? >> i've been feeling the clock a lot in this last six months. teach your children well >> reporter: nash has had a 50-year career in music. hey, cherry ann starting with the hollies. are you thinking and then with crosby stills & nash. and young. >> i mean with all due respect, anthony, we have talked many times and you know my next birthday, in less than two weeks i'll be 74 years old. and it's stunning to me that i that i still have for communicating. it's amazing to me. and i'm just going to go right along with it until it, you know, comes to an end. look up here >> reporter: bowie's end, and just days after he released his latest album, "bla

should be as >>> david bowie's last album is now his first number one album in the u.s. one week after bowie's death "black star" debuted on top the billboard 200 today. the album was released two days before bowie died. >>> spacex launched a new satellite into space after california today. the jason 3, a weather satellite monitoring el nino conditions, lifted into the stratosphere using the company's falcon 9 rocket. the hope was to land the falcon 9 on a barge in the pacific. that did not work. the landing was too hard. >>> a beautiful breakthrough on the international space station, the first flower ever grown in space. it's an orange zinnia chosen because it's pretty and edible. astronauts taste tested lettuce grown on the space station last year and say it was pretty good. >>> presidential ambitions on display in washington today at mascot tryouts for the nationals baseball team. here they are. candidates had to literally run see. they also had to do a freestyle dance routine. the winners will run a presidential race during every nationals home game. >>> coming up, meet the

gray and at concerts our music video. but despite creating 30 album, bowie's priority was always family. his now 15-year-old daughter and his 44-year-old son from his first marriage duncan. >> my h sonelas hped me grow up an incredible amount. what he teaches me is abundant enthusiasm for everything he approaches. >> to the end and throughout david's secret bad will with cancer, iman was by her side. some of the last posts before he passed, i will love you until i die. i will see new the sky. to the man who fell to earth, forever bowie. >> first for me is our marriage and secondly is this career. if there is a choice between iman and the other, there is no question. >> what a beautiful love story. >> absolutely the best. we'll be right back. >> there is a very good reason that nancy is not here. she is a diehard clemson alum who was at the national championship game last night in arizona. >> we were all pulling for you. unfortunately, her tigers came up just a little short against alabama. >> good game though. >> it was. >> what a game. nancy is with the team now. nancy, i know you're s