“So, in remembrance and I guess to remember the man, David Bowie”.
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The U.K. native has shot to the top of the charts in his home country as well, where OfficialCharts.com reports “Blackstar” has already sold 43,000 copies.
Following his death from cancer at the age of 69, Bowie will be honoured with a tribute at next month’s Brit Awards, as well as a memorial concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall on March 31. I knew for a year this was the way it would be.
Messages of condolence for the late rock star flowed in Monday from around the world and from space, where British astronaut Tim Peake tweeted from the International Space Station.
The revelation is not the only clue about Bowie’s death which the singer apparently left to fans in the months before he passed away. “The production of Lazarus, and also this new album, Blackstar, when you look at them both, you find so many lines and phrases that meant so much more than people knew before today”, he said.
“In my experience he was also an incredibly nice person, he was fun, he was always amusing”, O’Brien said before launching a series of clips from his interviews with the Thin White Duke over the years.
“It was flawless, many through the night told me it was what he would have wanted and I haven’t stopped crying and singing and loving all evening”.
Brits chairman Max Lousada said the “extraordinary life and work” of the “visionary and ground-breaking” three-time award victor would be celebrated at the ceremony at London’s O2 on February 24. Van Hove says Bowie told him about his illness during the early stages of working on the show, in November 2014, and asked him to keep the information secret.
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“I’m so glad I chose that to be my profession, It’s been just terrific”. We talked about revisiting it, taking it somewhere new. “Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in”, Bowie said.
