Blackstar Theory takes a close look at David Bowie's ambitious last
works: his surprise 'comeback' project The Next Day (2013), the
off-Broadway musical Lazarus (2015) and the album that preceded the
artist's death in 2016 by two days, Blackstar. The book explores
the swirl of themes that orbit and entangle these projects from a
starting point in musical analysis and features new interviews with
key collaborators from the period: producer Tony Visconti, graphic
designer Jonathan Barnbrook, musical director Henry Hey,
saxophonist Donny McCaslin and assistant sound engineer Erin
Tonkon. These works tackle the biggest of ideas: identity,
creativity, chaos, transience and immortality. They enact a process
of individuation for the Bowie meta-persona and invite us to
consider what happens when a star dies. In our universe, dying
stars do not disappear - they transform into new stellar objects,
remnants and gravitational forces. The radical potential of the
Blackstar is demonstrated in the rock star supernova that creates a
singularity resulting in cultural iconicity. It is how a man
approaching his own death can create art that illuminates the
immortal potential of all matter in the known universe.
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