David Bowie first visited Australia at the end of 1978, playing concerts in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. So enamored with our shores was the star that five years later, he shot two of his music videos here and bought an apartment in Sydney.

In 1983, Bowie purchased an apartment in the Kincoppal apartment building in Sydney's Elizabeth Bay. The Kincoppal building, on Elizabeth Bay Road, is a tightly-held luxury building. He used his Sydney apartment as a base for month-long adventures to the outback and far north Queensland rainforests throughout the 1980s. Bowie later sold the apartment in 1992, after he married supermodel Iman and said he wouldn't be traveling as frequently.

"Mainly the reason being that I just wasn't getting there enough and it seems a waste of a really nice apartment," the singer reportedly said when selling the property. "I would come over for a month or so at a time. It was really, really fabulous. I loved being there. It was just a great place to be."

The singer's fascination with Australia began, he said, as a 12-year-old in London when he stumbled across a Stravinsky record whose sleeve featured an artist’s impression of Uluru. Bowie later visited Uluru several times.

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