Blackstar was not enough for David Bowie. If a week ago they were all surprised and amazed by the consistency of the artist with his work, now it could be more.
"Lazarus," the song whose lyrics and video served to say goodbye, will be remembered not for being one of the best parts of the album, but because its most powerful message not only by the letter but by the video in which a creator who suffers the ravages of great suffering is recorded. British seems that the album it was not enough to say goodbye. Now, after the death of Duke Blanco, when everyone thought had been sufficiently candid and forceful, his producer Tony Visconti goes to say that the creator of Ziggy Stardust preparing an album before dying.
The proximity of death seemed to unsettle the mind that both told us and accompanied. "I was excited. Both thought it would a few months. Everything must have been very quick. I do not have much information, but the disease must have advanced very quickly, "Visconti told Rolling Stone magazine. Since November, in the words of his friend, Bowie knew that his cancer was terminal. After a recovery in mid-2015, the disease intensified.
What would he say Bowie in another even more compelling context? It is not known. Blackstar you can not say it's a hit record by circumstances. The good creative moment of the composer, coupled with increasingly introspective thoughts, could be glimpsed from 2013, when he returned with another memorable album: The Next Day. This time the disease deepened fears, certainties and questions trastocó perhaps made for other purposes.
Since his death on January 10 every day there is news about it. If it is number one in sales in the United States, who beat Adele, his relationship with cinema and literature, his days in Berlin, his alleged six heart attacks. Every day there is something.
They may say a thousand things, but there is a work and a testimony that will be for all those who want to know more about the artist. Ojala are increasingly interested in the venture to a sincere and loyal artist with his creation.
References die, pioneers, whom many admire. What will happen next? Is there life on Mars?
