Of all the people I worked with, he gave me the most space to be creative.” Every player he hired, he knew what he wanted from them and that’s why he didn’t interfere. He never micromanaged, he gave you an overall vision.
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“But he knew how to frame that avant-garde solo with solid bass, drums and guitar, and that discipline allowed me that freedom. “I didn’t want to ruin his financial career,” Garson says with a laugh. When we were doing things, as we were finishing, he was already thinking about what’s next - not that he told anybody.” Since I’d known him in the ’70s, he’d always talked about doing some kind of Broadway production and now it’s like he knew it was time. I think he had this whole ‘Lazarus’ thing in his head. I finished my solo on ‘(You Will) Set the World on Fire’ and he says, ‘Christ, that would be great live.’ I said, ‘Really?’ And then he said, ‘Don’t even think about it.’ I knew that day the chances of him going out like we used to were over. “I do remember once or twice, there were moments when you thought he was stepping back into it. He was himself, like, oh, here we are, as if we were picking up where we left off,” Slick says. Slick was on stage with Bowie that night and didn’t hear from him for eight years, as secret sessions for “The Next Day” were underway in New York. He was treated at a Hamburg hospital for a heart attack. He cut short the longest tour of his career in 2004 after a concert in Germany, which he left in an ambulance. Presley, with whom Bowie shares a birthday, asks his “Black Star” to grant him a longer life, but knows his time is running out: “Every man has a black star / A black star over his shoulder / And when a man sees his black star / He knows his time, his time has come.”īowie’s final rush of creativity came after a lengthy hiatus. It’s likely not a coincidence that its title also happens to be the name of an obscure song Elvis Presley recorded in 1960. And so the dense, haunted, jazz-inflected “Blackstar” arrived as not just a late-career album by a still-vital artist, but a carefully conceived and moving farewell. But he kept both the work and his health issues a secret outside of a tight circle of friends and collaborators. 10, 2016 - only added to the mystique.Īs he was completing work on “Blackstar” and “Lazarus,” which debuted in New York in late 2015, he was weakened by cancer. In many ways, he was as unknowable in death as he was in life, and his final public act - the release of his final studio album, “Blackstar,” on his 69th birthday and only two days before his death on Jan. Much of the recent media explosion has been at least in part inspired by how Bowie died - shrouded in mystery, just as much of his life and career were.
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