Outback Pub Raises Glasses to Famous Visitor David Bowie

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Drinkers at a dusty Outback pub are raising their beer glasses to its most famous visitor, David Bowie.

The mercurial musician made the 650-kilometer (400-mile) drive from Sydney to the tiny outpost of Carinda in parched western New South Wales state to set the 1983 video clip for his hit "Let's Dance" in its only pub.

The pub's current owner Malcolm George said on Tuesday that the town of fewer than 200 people hadn't known that Bowie was coming, but have never been allowed to forget the visit which took their rustic watering hole to a global audience.

George says news that Bowie died had immediately boosted business.