David Bowie’s music soars in days after death

Music legend David Bowie, whose death on Sunday surprised the world, was secretly cremated soon afterwards in NY.

Because the British rock star hadn’t been seen much in recent years and rarely gave interviews, some observers are calling ★ Bowie’s farewell, the final message from a global pop icon whose lyrics’ meanings had always been elusive.

It has been claimed that the Heroes singer, who kept details of his illness private, died from liver cancer.

“David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18-month battle with cancer”, an official statement said Monday.

It was just two days after the release of his final studio album Blackstar.

“The cast didn’t know all that time, and I suspect that the musicians with whom he recorded ‘Blackstar” didn’t know either. The album’s cover art, a solitary black star, was the first Bowie release that did not feature his image, and it seems to complete this symbolic journey from one world to another.

“In my experience he was also an incredibly nice person, he was fun, he was always amusing”, O’Brien said before launching a series of clips from his interviews with the Thin White Duke over the years.

“Bowie was still writing on his deathbed, you could say”, Van Hove told the website, dutchnews.nl.

“He made Blackstar for us”, said Bowie’s longtime producer, Tony Visconti, “his parting gift”.

A memorial concert, which had initially been organized as a tribute show, is also being planned for New York’s Carnegie Hall in March.

The album was already set to hit number one in the United Kingdom before Bowie’s death, OfficialCharts said.

Rumours of Bowie’s ill-health had been circling ever since his decade long, temporary retirement, which came after a health scare in 2004 when he collapsed when coming off stage in Germany during his Reality tour.