He said that he was very happy with the album and with his lot in life. He was sending out lots of emails - including one to me. “He was working very hard, putting his house in order. David Bowie's unexpected death from cancer at 69 has inspired a flood of tributes from the music world and sparked many to look more closely at his final song, Lazarus. It is not clear why Bowie referenced the Biblical name in the song title (the word 'Lazarus' doesnt appear in the lyrics). “Everyone told me that he mentioned it, and just moved off the subject,” said Whately. Lazarus is a character in the Gospel of John that was restored to life four days after his death by Jesus Christ. Lazarus, the symbolic song of Bowie’s musical testament ( Blackstar, Columbia Records, 2016), doesn’t seem to be left alone: ravaged, as it has been, by a thousand interpretations and plagued by inexhaustible attempts at decodification. Bowie found out he was dying while onset. After David Bowie’s Death, ‘Lazarus’ Holds New Meaning for Fans Roberta Bethencourt, a fan, entering the first performance of David Bowie’s new play, Lazarus, since the artist’s death. The true meaning of Lazarus, the testament of David Bowie. Compiling interviews with the collaborators the singer worked with on his final two albums and 2015 off-Broadway musical Lazarus, Whately delved into the intention of his last works, and how his cancer diagnosis in 2014 affected that work.Īlthough Bowie underwent chemotherapy, treatment was stopped in November 2015 while he filmed the video for the Blackstar track Lazarus. It’s one of the titbits of Bowie’s reclusive last years that Whately uncovered in the film. “Apparently, she’s a yoga teacher in Bristol now.” “After all those years, who would have thought he was still thinking about her?” said Whately. While working on the 1970 film Song Of Norway, Farthingale left Bowie for another actor on set. The imagery of the video surely took on a deeper meaning for the now terminal-ill singer.“She was his first big love,” documentary director Francis Whately told The Post. Bowie’s use of the name Lazarus for one of his songs from the album Blackstar can be seen as a reference to both the biblical Lazarus and to. In the New Testament, Lazarus is the name of the man whom Jesus raised from the dead. I found out later that, the week we were shooting, it was when he was told it was over, they were ending treatments and that his illness had won" (via The Guardian). The word Lazarus is derived from the Hebrew name, Eleazar, which means God has helped. Bowie, is about an alien trapped on earth, clinging to hope of some kind of immortal life in space. "To me it had to do with the biblical aspect of it. The show, which features both new songs and old favorites by Mr. numerous people attempted to interpret Lazarus, finding healing and.
the devil breaking parole' in 'Ricochet', and Bowie's admission in 'Modern Love' that 'there's no sign of life. I immediately said 'the song is called "Lazarus," you should be in the bed.'" But little did he know that the video would come to represent the deathbed scene of one of pop music's biggest stars. In addition, the use of jazz saxophones in the song, a sound that Bowie's 2013. David Bowie Across the Universe Will Brooker. "David said: 'I just want to make it a simple performance video'. According to a close friend, the singer kept his illness a secret while he underwent over a year of treatment.įilmmaker Johan Renck was the director on the music video for "Lazarus," and recalls the tragic timing of the October 2015 filming.
Sadly, unknown to the majority of David Bowie's friends and collaborators at the time, the musician was also coping with liver cancer, which had first been diagnosed in 2014, per The New Zealand Herald.
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