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What The Final 12 Months Of David Bowie's Life Were Like

It's mind-boggling to think that a musician of Bowie's stature, living out his final days with the knowledge of his fate, already sitting on a full finished album and a recently premiered musical, wasn't even finished in his own mind. According to Rolling Stone, in the final weeks before his death, Bowie somehow mustered up the strength to record five new demos — with ultimate plans of tracking an entire new LP. He reportedly rang up Visconti via FaceTime and detailed his plan, which "thrilled" the producer.

"I thought, and he must have thought, that he'd have a few months, at least," Visconti told the publication. "So the end must've been very rapid. I'm not privy to it. I don't know exactly, but he must've taken ill very quickly after that phone call."

David Bowie was also reportedly making other musical plans. Guitarist-producer Reeves Gabrels, who participated in a reimagined version of Bowie's 1987 LP, Never Let Me Down, told Guitar Player, "According to everyone involved in the Bowie estate trust, when David knew that he was dying, he left a five-year plan behind of what he wanted done with his music." Several years on, it's still unclear how much of that plan came to fruition.

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Update: 2024-06-12