The shock. Death is it ever. But had just released new album, last Friday, his birthday, it looked like a new beginning and no one knew of his illness. The mystery and surprise have always been part of it. But this was the news that no one wanted.
The British musician David Bowie, one of the biggest celebrities of popular culture, died this morning, aged 69, from cancer. The news was released on his official Facebook page and Twitter. Your publicist, Steve Martin, confirmed the death to Sky News
“January 10, 2016:. David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family, after a courageous battle against cancer during 18 months “said the statement published on social networks, about 6:30 am Monday.
January 10 2016 – David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle … https://t.co/ENRSiT43Zy
- David Bowie Official (DavidBowieReal) January 11, 2016
“Many of you share this loss, but we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during the grieving time,” adds the note. The musician had just released a new album, Blackstar , well received by critics. In PUBLIC, describe your new album to be inspired by jazz and as a bold album.
In the recent music video for the song Lazarus, directed by Johan Renck, arose body thin and aged, lying in a hospital bed. It is natural to now make allusions that would be a kind of farewell letter, but all who deprived him of late and made public statements – producer Tony Visconti saxophonist Donny McCaslin. – Suggested that he would be in great shape
In 2013, after ten years of near silence, he stunned the world by returning to active. Until his last biographer, British journalist Paul Trynka, who had written a year before the book Starman – The Definitive Biography (2012) gaped at the return on 8 January this year, on the day who turned 66, showing the world a new song, Where are we now? , and two months later the album The Next Day , ten years after the last release.
At the time, talking to Trynka, this told us it was a huge surprise “because he could record an album in total secrecy,” adding that the impact of his return was justified “because it had an influence as great about the sound and the current song image that his disappearance had left a great void. “
For two years he recorded this album without anyone knowing, after much speculation about his health. It is true that during that time was not absent altogether (appeared on stage alongside Arcade Fire, David Gilmour and Alicia Keys and collaborated occasionally with TV On The Radio, Scarlett Johansson and Kashmir), but seemed to have referred to the condition family man, living a quiet life in New York, next to his wife, the former model Magnet, and 15 year old daughter of both, Alexandria. After all, no. The year 2013 was his great return. In addition to the album, there was also a large exhibition at the Museum Victoria & amp; Albert in London, who gave us see his career in various dimensions.
In a time of fragmented culture, where artists communicate ever more splintered audiences, it ends up being one of the latest range of celebrities global. “It is probably the last global superstar of his time” said Paul Trynka us, “and in this sense ultimately reflect a certain nostalgia for the time when it was possible. On the other side is an atypical celebrity, someone sufficiently ambiguous that exposed a lot, but always maintained a certain distance, a mystery, a mystical, that leads people to want to want to know more, hear more, be closer. “
Since the 1960s it was Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane or Thin White Duke. Was mod, hippie or glam-rocker. Augured punk, inspired by the German electronics in the 1970s, benefited from the euphoria caused by MTV in the 1980s and joined the dancing vague in the 1990s.
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