David Bowie: 'He fought like a lion' Star's 18-month battle with - hard to spot symptoms
26.06.2022 - 20:23
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star passed away just two days after the release of his 26th studio album, Blackstar. Memorials for the star were created all across the world in the hours following his death, including in Brixton, London, the area where the singer was born. The Heroes singer's death was made all the more shocking as he kept his liver cancer diagnosis from public knowledge, only telling his closest friends and family.
The disease first affected the singer back in 2014 when Bowie turned up to the recording studio of his final album with no hair or eyebrows as a result of chemotherapy, then and there he swore everyone he worked with to secrecy. Things were starting to look up for the star as by mid-2015 he was in remission - but sadly, in November of that same year, the cancer returned and this time it was terminal, having spread around his body. Prior to his death, Bowie had been working with director Ivo Van Hove on a new stage show titled Lazarus, which Bowie soon realised he would not be able to make the show's debut in New York back in 2015.
Speaking about Bowie's "courageous" battle with cancer shortly after his death, Hove said: "We began collaborating on our show Lazarus and at some point he took me to one side to say that he wouldn't always be able to be there due to his illness. He told me he had cancer, liver cancer. "The cast didn't know all that time, and I suspect that the musicians with whom he recorded 'Blackstar' didn't know either.
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