Where are we now?
On the 10th anniversary of David Bowie’s death, we asked his biographers what they think he’d be doing if he were still around today
WHEN David Bowie died on January 10, 2016, the shock was mixed with the realisation that the great shape-shifter had curated his own exit. Bowie’s final public appearance was in December 2015 at the opening of Lazarus, a jukebox musical that became a memorial service. Bowie’s final album Blackstar – released on his 69th birthday, two days before his death – was an anguished reflection on mortality.
“They were the great late-life performances, the segue into the abyss,” says Paul Morley, author of Far Above The World: The Time And Space Of David Bowie. “He was always very death-fixated. He was aware of that sort of eventuality from his late teens.”