Bowie overall on the day which would make him 70 years ago – Public.en

David Bowie would make him 70 years old this Sunday, and the world comes to gather around his legacy, celebrating all over the hand, Lisbon included. Since died – 11 January 2016, two days after making the 69-year-old – that his name became ubiquitous in the public space. Re-enactments, exhibitions, concerts, debates, books were some of the pretexts for the recall in the last year. Your last album, Blackstar, figured in the lists of the top 2016 of the most inuential publications and in the various balance sheets of the year Bowie (or his untimely death) was a mandatory presence.

The evocation of his work and life continues in the day that would keep most a birthday. The highest moment is perhaps the concert Celebrating David Bowie that will occur at the O2 Academy Brixton London – out there too – and where will be present the actor Gary Oldman, his friend, and many of the musicians who over the years collaborated with him.

And if David Bowie didn’t think Blackstar as your farewell?

This is in fact the first date of a mini-tour in which musicians such as Mike Garson, Adrian Belew, Angelo Moore, Gaby Moreno, Bernard Fowler, guitarist Earl Slick or Joe Sumner, who accompanied him live or have recorded with it, will play themes from his repertoire. After London there will be tickets for New York city (10 January), Los Angeles (January 25), Sidney (29th January) and Tokyo (February 2).

In the English capital is also on the scene, these days, the musical Lazarus, of Bowie, and Enda Walsh, which premiered over a year ago in New York and the that the musician has already prepared very sick. Inspired by the novel The Man Who Came from Space, by Walter Tevis, is played by actor Michael C. Hall, who plays multiple themes from Bowie. The repertoire of the show was then edited on a disk, the Lazarus Cast Album, published last October, and including also the last of his three recordings.

Already this Saturday BBC2 broadcasted the documentary David Bowie: The Last Five Years, which, as the title indicates, focuses on the last years of the life of the singer, following the process of the creation of the album The Next Day (2013), from the musical Lazarus and Blackstar. Contrary to the idea that was being conveyed over the last few months – the musician would know that Blackstar would be his last work, and would have thus administered his goodbye –, some of which with he collaborated testify in this documentary that Bowie knew only at an advanced stage that the disease had won.

this Sunday, in Lisbon, in the Belém Cultural Centre, there will be a conversation around Bowie, with the participation of film critic João Lopes, the singer Xana (Radio Macau), the former editor David Ferreira and the journalist Nuno Galopim; at the same time, the musician David Fonseca will provide a few versions of iconic songs. Note that he is the worker of the anthology Bowie 70, the edit on the 17th of February, with versions of some of the best known songs of the Bowie played by the actual Fonseca and sung by Ana Moura, Camané, Marta Ren, Manuela Azevedo, Reininho, Rita Redshoes, António Zambujo, or Megan.

David Bowie: The ghost does not stop to haunt us

The date this Sunday is also marked in Tokyo with the opening of the retrospective exhibition David Bowie Is, organized by the Victoria & amp; Albert of London, and who has been in a periplus international. The PUBLIC saw it in Groningen, in the Netherlands, in the past year. After Tokyo, will come to Barcelona in May. Bringing together objects, photographs and documents, is a recreation magnificent from the life of Bowie and the impact of his work in the most diverse domains of creative.

in the Meantime, and already for February of this year, is scheduled for a new edition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the song Sound and vision, the production of Bowie and Tony Visconti with the participation of Brian Eno, included in the album Low (1977). It is also in February which take place the ceremonies of delivery of the Brit Awards and the Grammy awards, with Blackstar nominated in the category of best alternative album by the american academy.

All of this happens at the end of a year that followed the events around her, such as the release of Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976), the a box containing 12-CD, with the particularity to include the unreleased album from 1974, The Gouster, for the first time in the full edition, or the Portuguese edition of the books About Bowie, Rob Sheffield, and Bowie – A Biography Sentimental, Wendy Leight. In September, the work, the legacy and the fascination exercised by him were some of the themes for the conferences at the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon and a round table discussion at the Culturgest. In October, in the context of the DocLisboa festival, was screened the documentary Bowie, the Man With a Hundred Faces or The Phantom of Hérouville (2015), while in November the two-day auction in London drew almost 30 thousand people attracted by the possibility of acquiring some of the 400 works of his collection of contemporary art.

we Had Bowie across the side in the last few months. The man died, was the work. The music is the central core of the same, but it only gained relevance for the way Bowie was able to enter it in the fields of art, design, fashion, theatre, film, philosophy or literature, at the same time that was going to be feeding on all of them. This is what we celebrate this Sunday: the way in which his work is inscribed in our collective memory. Collector of ideas and personalities, was a total performer, someone who was able to realize that the rock was not only the possibility to affirm new ways of operating, but also be.

The fact that you have become an icon in life explains the feeling that we know him well, but despite the profusion of initiatives around remains an enigma, such a wealth of cultural connections that his work summons. We will continue to hear very much about it.