He wanted this show to go ahead, and he wanted this last album, Blackstar, to be released.
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Speaking to Piers Morgan on ITV’s ‘Good Morning Britain, he said of Bowie: “Yes I would [call him a genius], but it is a word that’s bandied around a lot and it is misused a lot”. And with his cutting-edge explorations into dance music with “Let’s Dance in 1983, European electronic music and even guitar-driven speed metal with the poorly received band Tin Machine, which he fronted in the late 1980s”. Only, I was lazy, couldn’t get the proper makeup together in time nor figure out just how to achieve that glorious orange pre-mullet mane, so I opted to forgo it all together.
Van Hove said Bowie was desperate to finish “Blackstar” and “Lazarus” before it was too late.
He said, “When I heard the news, I was nevertheless in shock”.
“From what I understand, these last 18 months he really curated his death, and the play Lazarus and the album – I just think that’s an extraordinary thing he did as an artist, to understand he was dying and put all of himself into that look”. Near the start I was looking down, concentrating on getting the next song ready, and there must have been about 10 or 12 people dancing. But in all honesty, I had only had a passing interest in the guy until I met the boys in Spacehog in New York City in 1994.
There’s been a backlash on social media after David Bowie’s ex-wife Angie was filmed crying after being told about his death on Celebrity Big Brother.
However, the day before his death, she posted, “Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory”, giving the impression that she knew what would come of her husband.
The Music of David Bowie will take place March 21.
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Girl Loves Me celebrates Bowie’s trademark love of language, positioning English lyrics against phrases from Antony Burgess’ Nadsat (as well as the odd snatch of Polari) to create something indistinctly sinister – a trace of Diamond Dogs’ glorious dystopia, transplanted into a modern setting (it’s also one of two tracks with LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy providing the beats).
