David Bowie was dreaming of the country that would become his domestic since at least the 1960s. It fired his imagination,and his influence on US culture ran deep“By the time I got to New York/I was living like a king,” sings David Bowie on Lazarus, and his final single and also the title of the theatre work he co-wrote,which opened just final month.
Though the creative team behind him were Europeans – Bowie, Irish playwright Enda Walsh and the Belgian director Ivo van Hove – it now seems significant that Bowie chose to stage his final live work in New York, or just a 10-minute walk from his Lafayette Street apartment,and for the lead role to be taken by an American, Michael C corridor.
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Source: theguardian.com