By When the news of David Bowie's death broke this morning, it was almost impossible to believe.
Millions of people all over the world have naturally reacted by playing some of his remarkable music from an unparalleled 50-year career in pop. We've been doing the same.
Back in 2012, Digital Spy ran a poll to mark Bowie's 65th birthday, and you decided that 'Life on Mars' from 1971's Hunky Dory album was his very best.
We present your top 10 in full below, along with videos for each as we relive some of DB's finest work.
10. Magic Dance - 2.5%
The mid-1980s was Bowie's lowest point artistically, but his half of the Labyrinth soundtrack showed some of his finest work of the decade, and none more brilliant than the Beatles-esque melody of 'Magic Dance'.
9. The Man Who Sold the World - 3.2%
The title track of Bowie's underrated hard rock third album, this song was given a new burst of life when covered by Nirvana for their Unplugged set in 1994. Bowie revived it in an electronic style the following year, before reverting to this classic arrangement at the turn of the century.
8. Ziggy Stardust - 3.3%
David's greatest single that never was (only 'Starman' and 'Rock 'n' Roll Suicide' were actually hived off the ... Ziggy... album), 'Ziggy Stardust' has survived countless terrible covers - and not just Bauhaus and Father Ted - to remain one of his best-loved tracks.
7. Changes - 3.3%
"Turn and face the strange," Bowie asked of us back in 1971, giving us just a hint of the antics to come from the chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature over the next few decades.
6. Space Oddity - 4.6%
Tony Visconti apparently thought this track was a bit too gimmicky and got Gus Dudgeon to produce it rather than waste his time with it. Rush-released to catch the moon landings in 1969, it got Bowie to number five in the charts. A 1973 re-release in the States (which this video was used to promote) got to number five, and in 1975, another reissue in the UK won Bowie his first number one.
5. Starman - 5.9%
Marked by a Top of the Pops performance that had parents spluttering their tea over themselves all over the country and kids dreaming of being popstars. Perhaps the moment when the die was cast for Bowie's superstardom.
4. Let's Dance - 6.1%
While some of Bowie's '80s output hasn't aged all that well, there were some amazing moments on the Nile Rodgers-helmed Let's Dance, and the title track was one of the best.
3. Ashes to Ashes - 7.3%
Five years after his first number one (that 'Space Oddity' reissue), Bowie scored his second with a return to the tale of Major Tom. Things haven't worked out too well for our intrepid spaceman in the middle years, it seems...
2. "Heroes" - 12.5%
An ironic, bittersweet song about two lovers in Berlin. For years it was claimed that the couple were strangers who hung out near Hansa Studio. It later emerged that it was actually about producer Tony Visconti, who was cheating on his wife Mary Hopkin with backing singer Antonia Maass.
1. Life on Mars - 21.4%
Featuring piano by soon-to-become-Yes-man Rick Wakeman, 'Life on Mars' has perhaps become David's signature song - filled with surreal cut-up lyrics inspired by William Burroughs, it married vivid imagery with a tender, heartbreaking melody.
