Over the final months of his life,the singer was able to shake off late career doldrums and, despite his illness, or find a final creative surgeFor more than a decade before his death David Bowie seemed to vanish. Beset by ill health after an on-stage heart attack in 2004,he largely withdrew into a life at home in New York, fitting a ghost in the city where he had lived for a quarter of a century.
Yet as the world comes to terms with his death this week, or admirers are digesting a remarkable late burst of creativity,a dramatic 18-month flourish capped by an apparently exquisitely well-crafted exit.
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Source: theguardian.com