1982 David Bowie picture disc--DRIVE IN SATURDAY / ROUND AND ROUND--vg+ ORIGINAL
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Tony Visconti lived for the past 18 months with the secret David Bowie was dying of cancer, and issued a statement in which he called his friend’s death “a work of art.” Bowie left us with a gorgeous and gloriously strange record, Blackstar, released just three days before his death, which critics rightly praised even before they realized it was his swan song; it now stands as recorded proof that he remained vital and darkly funny and nimbly open to new ideas even in his final year of life.
I’ve now spent the past few days immersed in Bowie, revisiting all the albums and rewatching all the movies and asking my dad to repeat his story about seeing the Ziggy Stardust Tour in Philadelphia so I could get jealous all over again. Bowie knew how to live like a rock star better than possibly anyone who’s ever breathed, so is it facetious to think that he also knew how to die like a rock star, orchestrating his reentry into our consciousness with elegance, bravado, and impeccable timing.
I don’t think we fully realize what an intimate connection we all have had to the musicians we love until we lose them. My Bowie grief feels at once collective and also incredibly private, impossible to explain. The obituaries are trickling in; here come the heated debates about the best Bowie record and whether or not he was better than the Beatles or the Stones or both of them combined. I’m not ready for that today. The best I can do is put on “Heroes” in the other room and let it drift over to where I sit.
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