Overview
- Channel 4’s Bowie: The Final Act premiered this week and is now streaming on Movistar+, featuring Tony Visconti and other close collaborators reflecting on his final months.
- Iman and daughter Lexi shared remembrances, joined by musicians such as Gail Ann Dorsey and Billy Corgan and photographer Anton Corbijn as the 10th anniversary was marked.
- Blackstar was released on January 8, 2016, two days before Bowie died at 69 of liver cancer, a diagnosis kept private for roughly 18 months.
- Collaborators recall his intense final push to complete the album and film videos including Lazarus, a centerpiece also tied to his late-2015 Broadway musical and often read as elegiac.
- Reassessments highlight the jazz-driven band led by Donny McCaslin and Mark Guiliana, and new publications such as Lazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie deepen the appraisal of his legacy.