David Bowie left this realm in the midst of a creative purple patch. Just days before the visionary’s death in 2016 at the age of 69, he released his masterpiece 26th album Blackstar, a record that everyone realised was his way of saying goodbye and contemplating the end of his life in the wake of his passing.
In the final year of his life, he’d also worked on the musical Lazarus, its title taken from one of Blackstar’s standout songs and its story based on the 1963 novel The Man Who Fell To Earth – also, of course, the inspiration for a Bowie classic. He saw that project through to completion, his final public appearance coming at the show’s opening night in New York on 7 December, 2015.
