Bowie death sees 3000pc surge in online song plays

“His last album “Blackstar” was very much his goodbye to fans instead”.

Bowie’s long-term producer Tony Visconti has described the album as his “parting gift”. “I am missing him greatly”, she said. One of the few collaborators Bowie did tell was Ivo van Hove, the director of Lazarus, a stage musical Bowie co-wrote that’s playing at the New York Theatre Workshop until January 20.

Quoting a source in NY who said Bowie has wanted to leave the world “without any fuss”, the Mirror reported the beloved singer’s remains were cremated without any friends or family present.

Before that, you have to go back 30 years for the last time Bowie had a Top 10 album in the USA – when his massively successful Let’s Dance hit #4 in 1983.

David Bowie’s close friend has told how the star was feeling “optimistic” about a new cancer drug just weeks before his death.

Bowie released his final album, “Blackstar”, on Friday, which was also his 69th birthday.

“From what I understand, these last 18 months he really curated his death, and the play Lazarus and the album. He said that because he knew that he may not always be able to be around”, Hove told NOS.nl station.

Most people would be satisfied with the life of a bonafide rock star, or being hailed as one of the most well-respected musicians of their time, but Bowie needed to more.

As well as Blackstar, Bowie released a single and a musical, both called Lazarus at the end of a year ago.

On the day of Bowie’s death, she posted, “The Struggle is real, but so is God”.

“Look up here, I’m in heaven, I’ve got scars that can’t be seen”.

“We are fans of his music and admirers of his talent, and so it is with great sadness that we mark his passing”, company President and CCO Scott Greenstein said in a statement.

David Bowie performs during a concert in Vienna, Austria, in 1996.