Five years without the living magic of David Bowie

Madrid. It’s been 5 years since the death of a musical icon that, like a testament to a disco, “Blackstar”, was recognized by critics and audiences as one of the best in History. Algo de lo que pueden presumir pocas estrellas, pero es que eso sola al alancance de personas tan charismáticos como David Bowie.

The British music legend, also known as “El Duque Blanco”, pioneer of “glam rock” in reference to artists’ legions, took place on January 10, 2016 at 69 years old, two days after his companions, in New York, caused a cancer cancer that took place 18 months ago.

The news of his death has shocked thousands of people, and three days ago he published his latest album: “Blackstar”.

“Blackstar” was his most recent studio album, which, in retrospect, contains what, according to its students, appears to refer to its own death. A question about the ultimate gamberrada of the artist sabedor de su suerte?

Bowie left the answer to his thumb, but the letter of the first album of the album, “Lazarus”, does not have to lie to the doubt: “Mira aquí arriba, estoy en el cielo, tengo cicatrices que no se ven, tengo drama, no puede robarse, todo el mundo me conoce ahora”.

Además, the video clip of this theme, of a couple of minutes, shows a Bowie palliative and with the sold objects, levitating in the bed of a hospital.

With only songs and 45 minutes of duration, the disco post is the only work that does not present an image of the music in the portada. In its place appears a black star, which, if the light of the sun transforms into a camp of brilliant rays, and if there are many UV rays, it illuminates as if it were a galaxy with blue stars.

Some time after his release, the album was received with good reviews from the musical press as the public, llegandose to be located in the first puesto of musical lists of numerous songs.

The disco, which sold 146,000 copies in its first week in the United Kingdom and more than 181,000 in the United States, was the first to appear on iTunes’ list of 25 tracks, and was converted to Bowie’s first album to read the first position of the Billboard stadium list.

Pero la fama ya había sonreído en David Bowie más de quatat decadas antes, in 1972, when he published his fifth album album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”, full of mysterious and electrifying lyrics, and accompanied by his image, are as spectacular as they are ambiguous.

His great excitations, classical music songs and cult references, including titles such as “Let’s Dance”, “Heroes”, “Under Pressure”, “Rebel, Rebel”, “Life on Mars”, “Suffragette City” or ” Space Oddity ”, and Ivor Novello won the award for his originality.

Bowie has an intricate artistic vocation in which he tries to paint, draw and write, alternating the music with the film.

More from the triumph that suspends the juvenile movie “Laberinto” (Jim Henson, 1986), where compartment belongs to a debutant Jennifer Connelly, the British artist also participated in “La ultima tentación de Cristo” (1988) by Martin Scorsese, do not play a Poncio Pilatos.

“The man who loves the stars” (1976) by Nicolas Roeg, “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence ”(1983) del japonés Nagisa Ôshima, performed in the Second World War and with music by the composer Ryuichi Sakamoto o la muy popular en el genéo de terror “El ansia” (1983), Tony Scott, figuran assimismo en su currículo.

Also actuated in the papel of Nikola Tesla, together with Christian Bale y Hugh Jackman on the spot Christopher Nolan, “The Final Trick” (2006) based on the epistolary novel of Christopher Priest which deals with the rivalry of the magos of principles of sail XX. All a parade for the considered magic of the pop music of the decades of the years and new of this same sail.

Five years to his death, the magic of David Bowie lives on among his fans. A song won by pulse with his work. Since 2002 he has been on the list of the 100 most important British people in history and in 2004 the Rolling Stone magazine and the situation between the ten most important artists of all time and in his list of best songs.