“David Bowie, the infinitely changeable, fiercely forward-looking songwriter who taught generations of musicians about the power of drama, images and personas, died on Sunday, two days after his 69th birthday”.
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With no official comment available, Bowie’s place of death remained a mystery, as did funeral arrangements. Lazarus, the musical, also makes more sense in retrospect: Says the artistic director of the workshop, “What seemed not too long ago intriguingly complicated, ambiguous, and opaque now seems pretty clear: a man who was yearning for immortality”.
“I think in those brief moments, he heralded me into my next new life, an old rock and roll alien angel in a ideal grey suit”, said Lorde via Facebook.
Bowie’s son, filmmaker Duncan Jones, confirmed the news via his personal Twitter account.
“Very sad. honest condolences to his family”. I’ll be offline for a while.
One of his last public outings was at the December premiere of his musical in NY where he “collapsed from exhaustion” behind the scenes.
Ivo added to the Daily Mirror newspaper: “It was written that he looked so well, so healthy”. But as we went off the stage, he collapsed.
Blackstar is issued on Sony’s Columbia in the U.S. market and RCA in the UK. “I wasn’t, however, prepared for it”. “He fought like a lion and kept working like a lion through it all”.
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Other retailers aren’t faring much better, with much-loved LA indie Amoeba telling customers they expect physical copies of Blackstar and other Bowie records back in stock today (Wednesday, January 13). It was as amusing as always, and as surreal, looping through word games and allusions and all the usual stuff we did.
