Rarely will a music year be so tied to one artist as 2016 to David Bowie. A great new record ( ), a musical (Lazarus), various reissues, a traveling exhibition and an auction of works of art… But all this is of course largely overshadowed by his death on January 10th. The next day, the recording of this CD was planned by the cast of the musical. "Their emotional performances of that day are recorded
… on this," the booklet said. In that knowledge you listen just a little bit differently to this beautiful anthology of 50 years of Bowie music. Two things stand out in particular: how closely protagonist Michael C. Hall approaches his character at times and how the hits from the eighties - when the singer was more or less finished for many - remain intact. In fact: Absolute Beginners and This Is Not America, sung by Sophia Anne Caruso, are without doubt one of the highlights here. For Bowie fans, however, the second CD is especially interesting. On it, besides the famous Lazarus of Blackstar, the three last songs by and by the master himself. (RME)more
