British singer David Bowie learned that he was suffering from terminal cancer just three months before his death, on January 10, 2016, according to a new documentary that issue tomorrow the BBC about his life and career.
The iconic artist Brixton (London) and New York resident died two days after serving 69 years and released their twenty-fifth studio album, "Blackstar", a project fraught with symbolism and what now seem references to his own death .
The documentary, broadcast on Saturday the public channel at 2100 GMT, almost coinciding with the first anniversary of the death of Bowie and what would be his 70th birthday, reveals that the singer knew there would be cured of their disease while recording video musical "Lazarus".
"I knew at the end of the week recording he had learned that it was all over," said the director of the music video, Johan Renck, in statements made for the documentary "David Bowie: The Last Five Years," which delves in recent years the musician.
In that interview, Renck further clarified that the theme of this video clip, which is a pale Bowie, eyes covered with bandages, lying in a hospital bed, not about the disease musician, as has I speculated. "For me it has to do with the biblical aspect, with the man who would be reborn, and has nothing to do with his illness," he said.
The film, directed by Francis Whately which was already in front of "David Bowie: Five Years" in 2013- will include unreleased sound recording "Lazarus" and reveal unknown aspects of the composer, with interviews of relatives, focusing on their last two jobs, "the next day" and said "Blackstar".
With more than 136 million albums sold worldwide, including its extensive and admired legacy, Bowie, who lives in New York for years, rose to stardom in 1972 with "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spider From Mars" and he left for work cult "Heroes" (1977), "Lodger" (1979) or "Scary Monsters" (1980) posterity.
