(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 08 - On January 10 5 years ago David Bowie died.
On the 8th he had turned 69, two days later "Black Star", his artistic testament, was released.
For the fans, that succession was a shock: few knew that one of the most revolutionary genes in rock history had been a hopeless patient for some time, but on that sad day in 2016 everyone understood that this farewell had been prepared as the last act of a ' artistic adventure that changed the world.
And, in some respects, the shock was even greater when, listening to the notes of "Black Star", an album of lacerating depth, we found ourselves in front of the masterpiece of a man who has decided to tell his own end by canceling the border between art and life.
David Robert Jones, the name he was enrolled in at Brixton, South London, proved that a rock star can be much more than a rocker and something other than a star.
For example, an alien fallen to Earth called Ziggy Stardust who made the world discover the idea that a musician could be a figure at the same time that brought into play a brazen sexual ambiguity and at the same time mixed with the Berlin cabaret, the Kabuki theater, the mime by Lindsay Kemp.
He took on the identity of the Thin White Duke, the White Duke set out to conquer America but a slave to cocaine, and then plunged into the Berlin of the mid-1970s to produce the famous Berlin Trilogy with one of the many exciting stylistic twists.
It is impressive to think how many things David Bowie has been, a crooner with unparalleled charisma, a brilliant author, a style icon, a sound explorer, an actor, an artist who, after all, has paid little attention to the market but has earned mountains of money. thanks to the Bowie Bonds, an unprecedented financial operation, a painter linked to German Expressionism, an actor with an important curriculum consisting of films such as "The Man Who Fell to Earth", "The Last Imagination of Christ", "Miriam wakes up at midnight "," Furyo "," All in one night "," Labirinth "and who allowed himself a self-deprecating cameo in" Zoolander "and an appearance in Christopher Nolan's" ThePrestige ".
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