Hanif Kureishi on David Bowie
Great Lives
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The Death of Dylan
Dylan Jones: Bowie was incredibly productive in the last 18 months of his life. As Haneve said, he always liked to work. He'd come in and he'd work for as long as he had the physical strength. And he knew he was dying. This morning, I was listening to Blackstar, which is a very painful album to listen to because he made it so soon before he died. But it's a very, very clever album, and really innovative,. and a very moving and beautiful album, actually. Hanif says that this was not a creative genius, not a great musician. The half-life of this kind of radioactivity, which he certainly had,
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