“And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt – you know, I had to go out and do them”.
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The 71-year-old rocker broke into the music business in the United Kingdom at the exact same time as Bowie and the timeline for their ascension to become global superstars mirrored each other.
David Bowie fans turned out in their thousands to lay a sea of flowers at a mural of their idol in Brixton.
“We began collaborating on our show Lazarus and at some point he took me to one side to say that he wouldn’t always be able to be there due to his illness”.
“I was never particularly fond of my voice”, Bowie said.
Of his favourite photo Hallag says, “I look at it and get sad, because it’s not going to happen again”.
He added: ‘After I told the story David quipped, “It’s probably Angie’s greatest line from the 70s”.
Bowie died from liver cancer aged 69 in New York City on Sunday surrounded by his family.
“I received an email from him seven days ago”.
He continued, “I thought, and he thought, that he’d have a few months, at least”.
David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust.
Bowie’s death reminded many LGBTQ people of “that moment when we were all younger and alone without a sense of what other worlds were possible out there”, said Karen Tongson, an associate professor of English and gender studies at the University of Southern California.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, longtime David Bowie collaborator Tony Visconti revealed the late artist expressed an interest in making one more album after the release of Blackstar. “His energy was still incredible for a man who had cancer”.
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Married to David for 10 years (the two welcomed son Duncan Jones in 1971), Angie was informed of David’s death off-camera.
