David Bowie's last release, Lazarus, was 'parting gift' for fans in carefully planned finale
Source: The Telegraph (UK)
David Bowie's final record was a carefully-orchestrated farewell to his fans, his producer has confirmed.
Lazarus, released on the Bowie's 69th birthday just two days before his death, opens with the lyrics: "Look up here, I'm in Heaven!"
Its video, which will be viewed in a very different light by millions of fans today, features the musician in a hospital bed, and finishes with him retreating in to a dark closet.
Tony Visconti, the producer who worked with Bowie to complete his final album, has released a statement saying it was deliberately created and timed as a "parting gift" for his fans.
In a statement on his Facebook page, he said:
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12092542/Bowies-last-album-was-parting-gift-for-fans-in-carefully-planned-finale.html
Wilms
(26,795 posts)That's a good lesson. Grieve. Let the tears fall where they will.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)totodeinhere
(13,056 posts)David Bowie was a great man. His passing is important news.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)It's here http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1310091
This is a thread about the last album he made.
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,341 posts)I'll start with reverence and stay there for awhile.
eggplant
(3,907 posts)Well, my day is shot to hell now.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)yodermon
(6,143 posts)no words after that
trillion
(1,859 posts)I'm a long time fan. This, I don't like. Yuck.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)But that track is absolutely killing me.
Nictuku
(3,587 posts)Initech
(100,029 posts)tabasco
(22,974 posts)Bowie was the kind of artist that comes only once in a generation. News of his loss was a great shock to me this morning. He leaves behind a tremendous legacy of music.
myrna minx
(22,772 posts)MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)Marty McGraw
(1,024 posts)visionary entertainer. He will be missed
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trillion
(1,859 posts)Babel_17
(5,400 posts)Very classy move by Bowie. It reminds me of how Iain M. Banks kept writing to the end.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hydrogen_Sonata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sublimed