Post a new album just three days before his death was perhaps the way he found David Bowie to try to beat him to death through music. His physical disappearance occurred Sunday as a result of a cancer that stopped his walk at 69 years just fulfilled. New songs and will join their classics as indelible legacy of his brilliant passage through the world.
Like a farewell it were , and even more as a way of narrating the darkness of his last days, in the video of your subject Lazarus, which is included on your hard Blackstar and was also presented on Thursday, I get a Bowie skinny lying on a bed of white sheets that blend with his clothes. The legendary singer looks there blindfolded, with two buttons painted black on each pupil, which suggests coins and stones which were placed the dead in the practices of ancient rites (Egyptians and Greeks). The beginning of the subject even quotes "Look up, I'm in heaven / I have scars sight / I have drama, can steal / everyone knows me now." For some, this will be a clue to its certainty of purpose; for others, a sign of honesty of his music that always led him to risk playing his subjects those elements that disturbed the galactic flight of excess and glory that was his life.
Bowie was born on January 8, 1947 in London, with the name David Robert Jones. In his career spanning over five decades of music he recorded 25 studio albums (including his recent Blackstar). Marked by eccentricities, this rock legend challenged at all times, for him have unnecessary, social conventions and decided to make their dress, their videos, their records and even their way of living sexuality a true cry of artistic revolution. "What I do is very simple, it's just that my choices are very different from those of other people," Bowie even declared when asked about it by international media.
Space Oddity, Starman, Heroes, Rebel Rebel and Under Pressure are some of the classic themes that this unique artist produced during his career. His new album has seven songs that fused rock with jazz and electronic. Although Bowie did not offer tours or interviews about the material it has been well appreciated by critics worldwide.
The news of his death was disseminated through a brief statement posted today on social networks of the artist, which explains: "January 10 2016 David Bowie has died peacefully today surrounded by his family, after a courageous struggle of 18 months against cancer. While many of you share the loss, we ask respect for the privacy of the family during their time of grief. "
