David Bowie: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

by David Bowie

Blackstar, two days before his death. And interestingly, that record was a kind of self-interview—Bowie’s most fearless and open of them all, wherein he answers the ultimate hard question “What is it like to be dying?”—and reveals in poetic detail what had meaning to him in his life … while addressing his audience with a certain innate gratitude as he says goodbye.

My country is in the depths of lethargy and very apathetic, there is very little happening. There’s no action in my country. This is quite a challenge to come over to a country like this where for me the most important thing to me is that the music is a communicative blanket media. Where at home it’s merely something to listen to.