Blackstar

Blackstar, 2016

Dave mattheWS

“The song and the album are both unbelievable. I find it almost infuriating that somebody could be such an unrelenting artist. Staring at one’s own mortality and calmly producing something of that magnitude – also doing it in secret! – is barely conceivable. I mean, put yourself in the place of his band. When they find out that he was there singing and making that music, knowing his time was dwindling… good grief, what kind of a human being could do that?”

carl palmer

“I recently bought the Blackstar album. The whole thing is tremendous, and I love the title track. Try to forget about the fact that he knew he was dying when he made it. It’s an unbelievable piece of art. The sparseness of the production and the voice… the videos were chilling. You can talk about Space Oddity and Let’s Dance all you like, but this one was just… deep.”