In the song “Lazarus” is Bowie staged as biblical figure. Perhaps also in order now to donate his fans consolation – because Lazarus was resurrected.
“Look up here, I’m in heaven” , David Bowie sings. Look up here, I’m in heaven. It’s the very first line of his song recently published song “Lazarus”. Striking lines. Prophetic lines. So it seems, at least today, where the music world has been rocked by that message: David Bowie, the most talented, wonderful aliens who ever graced the Earth is dead is not only our music critic Jan Kedves wishes that he would be dropped in. Heaven. (Read his obituary for David Bowie.)
David Bowie from another planet
It is hard to imagine, that Bowie, who always seemed like not of this earth, one so terrible earthly suffering as the cancer has succumbed. But the exceptional musicians who have in the past week to be much acclaimed 25th album “Black Star” published was, for some time seriously ill as to tell family and management now. One might have guessed it in the face of “Lazarus” – but when the video was released in December, you just did not see what today seems so obvious. Maybe you did not want to see.
“I’ve got scars That Can not Be seen
I’ve got drama, can not be stolen
Everbody knows me now
Look up here, man, I’m in danger
I’ve got nothing left to lose
I’m so high it makes my brain whirl
Dropped my phone down below
Is not that just like me
Bowie, the, transparent self-irony, but he can also still the biggest star of all. With arrogant glance back and forth twitching hips.
While Bowie sings, with his unmistakable voice that not a bit of drugs dampened sounds, but as clear as his words, he lies on a bed , In a white linen shirt, a bandage around his head, instead of eyes two buttons. Again and again starts up his wiry upper body, you would not call itself in retrospect as emaciated. But Bowie flat, androgynous mythical creatures
Reactions to the death of David Bowie ” David’s friendship was the light of my life “
Iggy Pop praises the uniqueness of his friend. Producer Giorgio Moroder laments the loss of “genius”. Worldwide there is dismay at the death of pop icon David Bowie. Reactions.
The acts in a moment when a higher power draw him out of bed, sometimes, as if possessed Bowie. Or he flees from that figure that there lurks beneath his bed, stretching out her hand to him?
No, never! “Lazarus” is that last, jazzy song with the distinctive saxophone. Lazarus, after the eponymous biblical character who dies from an illness and is resurrected by Jesus, because he can not bear to lose his friend. Today Tony Visconti said Bowie’s longtime producer, the artist wanted to make his fans a “parting gift”. It’s more than that. It is the hope that David Bowie will live on, even if only in his music
“This way or no way”, Bowie sings. Someone like him, who can no Requiem write, which it writes itself.
Just like ThatBlueBird
Oh I’ll be free
Is not that just like me
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The British singer, who is considered a co-founder of glam rock, after 18-month battle with cancer died surrounded by his family. His new album “Black Star” is only a few days ago appeared on January 8 – the day of his 69th birthday.
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