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The compelling story of the second half of Bowie's life, exploring the untold story of these latter years when Bowie moved from commercial failure to his final masterpiece. When David Bowie died on January 10th, 2016, aged sixty-nine, his death was greeted with the greatest display of public mourning since Princess Diana three decades before. Politicians and fellow musicians alike fell over themselves to pay tribute to the former Starman, and his home cities of New York and London saw thousands of well-wishers assemble to play his music and console each other in their hour of grief. Twenty-five years before, Bowie appeared to be washed up. His 80s career had been a slow descent into self-parody, his attempts to diversify into hard rock with the new group Tin Machine had been disastrous, and the art-rock music with which he had made his name was badly out of fashion. The Thin White Duke needed a miracle if he was not only going to be able to assume his rightful place at the top of the rock music firmament, but even to continue his career. And a miracle--a resurrection from the dead--is precisely what happened. Lazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie is the first biography of Bowie that tells the full and candid story of what happened in between those two apparently unbridgeable points. With new and exclusive interviews with the musicians, filmmakers, and cultural figures who worked with and befriended Bowie throughout this period, Lazarus is the definitive account of the previously overlooked and fascinating latter half of a great and distinguished career. It climaxed with his final masterpiece, Blackstar, and the unprecedented--yet entirely appropriate--theatrical flourish of his departure from the stage on which he had thrived. And as it did so, Bowie passed from greatness into legend, and the world could only look on in admiration.

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""Though rock music was his primary medium and the one in which he reached his highest achievements, Bowie was not just a rock star. Bowie was an unquenchably curious and exploratory all-around artist in various media, including painting, video, film, and digital realms. In this book, he comes across as more and more human, especially as he confronts his worsening health and the numbering of his days. An essential addition to the Bowie bibliography.""--Kirkus Reviews (starred)

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Alexander Larman is a historian and critic who writes for major journals like the Observer and The Telegraph in Britain and is currently books editor of The Spectator World. He has written on subjects as diverse as Oasis, Lord Byron, and the British royal family--but his real passion is David Bowie. He writes on Bowie whenever he can, and the articles always receive a huge amount of attention globally. Alex lives in England.

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