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Blackstar is David Bowie's 28th studio album and his first since stunning the world in 2013 with the critically acclaimed 'The Next Day'. The release date for Blackstar coincides with David's birthday. The album's title track is the first single, and is accompanied by a short film visual by the acclaimed director Johan Renck. Music from the Blackstar single has been featured in the opening title credits and trailers for the new TV series The Last Panthers. The series, also directed by Johan Renck, began airing across Europe in late October, 2015, and will premiere in the U.S. on SundanceTV in Spring, 2016. In addition to the CD and digital albums, a special die-cut vinyl LP package will also be available.


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.3 x 12.3 x 0.4 inches; 1.2 Pounds


Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Legacy Recordings


Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2016


Batteries ‏ : ‎ Lithium Metal batteries required.


Run time ‏ : ‎ 41 minutes


Date First Available ‏ : ‎ November 19, 2015


Label ‏ : ‎ Legacy Recordings


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    • Posthumous Review of Blackstar = Masterpiece & Grammy
Posthumous Review of BlackStar = Masterpiece Grammy Friday, January 15, 2016 1:42 PM On Monday Morning EST I wake @4:30am to the news of the passing of David Bowie. I was instantly struck, for his wife and daughter because I lost my father at the same age. As someone who has played keyboard since age 4 as well as woodwinds later, I feel that my review of his last Album is a special one. After listening to some favorites and crying through the day at 3pm Jan 11 I was finally able to stop everything, turn on a low light, and just listen. In Surround Sound. Blackstar In five seconds flat I have been transported to another country. It's like a prayer, a chant and the middle east or Buda influence is instantly felt. I'm There. I'm Not IN America Any More. Not many artists have been able to capture in our Era, in Rock Jazz pr Electronic, the feel of another country. I felt that Alanis did so with Baba, but this is different. Already I am hearing something I cannot "label" I cannot describe, I can only absorb the beauty of it. Especially the flute and the sax. Then, Second Act Not Same as the First! I'm starting to feel like I did the first time I heard Dark Side of the Moon! The Song is all of a sudden Rock, not Pop Rock not Techno, not Electronic, a love song a ballad. And I'm finding the urge to put what I'm hearing in a box. I cannot. By the time Act 2 is over and the stanza begins again with new lyrics for the chant, I'm in tears-again. Just for the Beauty of what I've just heard. The eerie yet strong wail like a voice trying to be heard inside your head: I'm not a Pop Star, I'm not a White Star, I'm a Black Star…..I'm struck with sadness and love and my heart is aching. And I cry more. Then all of a sudden it is the best Jazz and Soul I've ever felt or heard. Because I know David Bowie was a Husband and a Father. He was a Black Star. And Michael C Hall, has stepped in and now I understand and I start to really cry. Because when I saw the tape of his performance, I knew there was just something…there was something I couldn't put my finger on. How could we ever dare call his work, Pop? It is so much more and it always has been. This is a composition, as complicated as any modern day Mozart would write. My Tears Fall. "Tis a Pity She Was A Whore This, I'm already starting to groove. Is This Jazz? Is this Blues? Is this ….well not one Album has struck me like this since Dark Side of The Moon or Wish You Were Here. Man She Punched Me Like a Dude…and I laugh. All of a sudden I'm in a seedy place an alley or alongside a bar, afterhours, against a wall. David Bowies Sexuality is dripping out of this song. He has always been so Frigging Sexy, to everyone. Now, this, Is Ear Candy. I'm feeling Psychedelic Furs, the reverberation in my ear, a tickle, something that rarely happens. Hold Your Hands! For That Was Patrol! I'm grooving to the best Jazz I've ever heard. Lazarus With one bar, I'm crushed. I'm in Tears, the riff is the saddest I have ever heard. Ever. The sax coming in so sexy… Then "Look up here, I'm in Heaven" and I'm in a puddle in my heart and soul. I'm unprepared. It's so beautiful I gulp and cannot speak. I'm glad no one is here. I'm grateful for this and start to realize omg this is such a Gift. A daring one at that. It is Raw. I'm Raw. Then his voice and New York, he was living like a King. And I start to wonder, was he not ready for this. Was he afraid, who wouldn't be. And I cry, silent tears. We have a blue bird trail we put up a few years ago in the country. We have had a few clutches come and go. I'm a birdwatcher, and Now I'm heartbroken. The song is so beautiful, and so full of truth. Then this rift at the end, the bass is like yelling NO. Again I'm struck at what I'm hearing. Sue Or In a Season of Crime Ethereal. Jazzy. Rocking. Techno. Experimentation with sound even as he is dying. I love sound experimentation and the beat is pulling me in as are the Lyrics. The Xray is fine. I don’t believe him. Then this rift at the end the bass driving and it is rocking this song and it ends like anesthesia does, going out with a buzz. No time to count down from 10. Girl Loves Me = Song of the Year I'm like what? I had to start the song Over. My tears are drying. Girl Loves Me I think is my favorite song on this Album and it's hard to say that. But it was Monday. My realization, was dizzying. I understand, he is ready to go. To leave Us. He is coping. He is writing about it. The Lyrics, omg I realize I must get the lyrics out when I'm done and read them. When that Baritone Hey Cheena comes in, I have goose bumps. Because, Girl Loves Me…these seductive voices come through…calling….Hey Cheena. Oh My God I love this song. WTF Did Monday Go? For me, it was very hard to hear…and of course yes I'm in tears again. How could I not be? This man obviously has just left us something so special that I have chills. And I realize that I have a unique perspective, not one I wanted. But the composition of these songs is something, spectacular in my most humble opinion. From the Sax Solos and Runs to the Tempo & Key changes which were unique on this album so far, my ear is tickling me with something very Rare. Ear Candy. Dollar Days Geez, all of sudden I hear David Bowie flipping through his pages, it is so intimate, this sound of a musician and his paper and his pages. Cash Girls Suffer Me, and I'm crying again. There is nothing to See. I remember walking all the way to the mall after school when Diamond Dogs was released. Had to have it. Had to learn every word and I'm starting to feel that urge that I have to learn this. I'm starting to feel that this is a body of work, that is Album of the Year, Grammy Worthy and I'm not even finished with the Album yet! The Sax solo's and runs are fantastic. The Lyrics are crushing my Heart. It's all Gone Wrong. I can't bear it really because he had to leave his wife and his daughter. I wonder where Michael C Hall is and how he is. Then I realize what I saw when I saw a clip of his performance. He couldn't even smile. Then the song ends and so does this riff, that I want more of instantly… I Can't Give Everything Away I see the title of the song on in HD on my TV, as I listen. I know something's very wrong. And I'm crying again, silent tears throughout as I realize, this is a Grammy. It's the best David Bowie ever, it's the hardest ever to hear, but I am so grateful for this Gift. When I paid for it I felt, it wasn't enough. Before I even heard it. And I expected nothing, set everything aside. The wonderful uplifting jazz riffs with these dizzying runs on the sax….He Has Given Us Everything for Forty Years. As a Fan, but also as someone who plays and loves music, I'm left extremely grateful for all of his Influence and for writing up to the very bitter end. This Album Blackstar, is a Modern Day Masterpiece. It is Grammy Worthy, and Moving but written so well & produced brilliantly. I don’t want to put him in a category, I cannot. His music Transcends in this piece of work. The Cabaret touched him early in life and He Is, A Black Star. He's not a White Star. Little Richard lived inside this man. This was Funk at it's best, Jazz at it's best Blues and Rock and Roll and so much more. All infused. I don’t think I have ever heard an album that was Jazz Soul Techno Electronic Funk Blues Rock and Roll, all rolled up tightly with a bow, In One. Each song was like a Play. I grieve the rest of the week for a voice we will never hear again; for his Wife and his Daughter, & Friends, His Gift, His Art and for the Man who is David Bowie. Always Daring, Never Backing Down, He exuded sex appeal in so many of his songs and performances, which I loved & was never apologetic, just brutally honest. K J Rupert https://onedrive.live.com/edit.aspx/Documents/Kathleen^4s%20Notebook?cid=b1943e3dbd3676ee&id=documents&wd=target%28Quick%20Notes.one%7C0422F11D-38F9-4472-8474-4AFA7E3D417F%2FPosthumous%20Review%20of%20BlackStar%20%3D%20Masterpiece%20Grammy%7C07D2FC6A-6615-4168-B0C7-1F3D93154932%2F%29 onenote:https://d.docs.live.net/b1943e3dbd3676ee/Documents/Kathleen's%20Notebook/Quick%20Notes.one#Posthumous%20Review%20of%20BlackStar%20=%20Masterpiece%20Grammy&section-id={0422F11D-38F9-4472-8474-4AFA7E3D417F}&page-id={07D2FC6A-6615-4168-B0C7-1F3D93154932}&end ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 15, 2016 by Pink
    • Blackstar: Yet another terrific David Bowie work
I'm usually hesitant to review an album in full until listening to it a few times. Songs you may not like at first may grow on you while others you like right away may wear out their welcome. However, before downloading the full Blackstar album, Mr. Bowie pre-released two of its seven songs and I've heard them plenty of times now. The first release was the song the album was named after, Blackstar. A short while later came Lazarus, a song which is about Thomas Jerome Newton, the alien character Mr. Bowie played in the movie The Man Who Fell To Earth. I really, really liked what I heard. Given the album has 7 songs and I'd listened to two of them as well as a somewhat different version of a third song, Sue (or a Season in Crime), I've already heard nearly a third of the album before its official release so I feel more comfortable in giving my thoughts. Here goes: This is one hell of an album. The cliche regarding just about every new David Bowie release falls along the lines of "his best work since Scary Monsters" or somesuch. To some degree, I understand the sentiment. After the release of his immensely popular Let's Dance way back in 1983, Mr. Bowie hit a bump in the road, creatively, and many of the works which followed this point were critically panned. But starting with 1993's The Buddha of Suburbia and the absolutely excellent follow-up, 1995's 1. Outside, Mr. Bowie was, to me, back. Blackstar represents Mr. Bowie's 8th album since the release of The Buddha of Suburbia and it is breathtaking how invested he is in this particular work. It's as if he's found yet another crack in the music landscape and is mining it for all its worth. His singing is soulful and the mere seven songs presented are emotional, vibrant, strange (in an oh-so-good-way), experimental (I've never heard anything from Mr. Bowie quite like Girl Loves Me, a song that sounds almost like...rap?!), and fulfilling, even more so than the critically acclaimed (and also quite good) previous album The Next Day. When I was younger and just discovering Mr. Bowie, one of the greatest laments I had was the "what if" question of what might have happened if Mr. Bowie had continued with his Spiders of Mars bandmates, especially guitarist Mick Ronson. Might there have been more albums on par with The Man Who Sold The World, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, and Aladdin Sane? With the release of Blackstar the answer, which should have been evident before, becomes all the more clear: Because of Mr. Bowie's nature and his drive to create different types of music, he works best with musicians for a limited amount of time. His very best stuff seems to come following transitions to working with new musicians. With Blackstar, Mr. Bowie has a new stable of very talented musicians behind him, known mostly for their work in jazz, and it appears to have reinvigorated and renewed him. Having said that, the music on this album isn't so radically different as to not be recognizably David Bowie. In the song Blackstar, it would appear Mr. Bowie, to my ears anyway, has fused his very early work The Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud with Loving the Alien. For Sue (or a Season of Crime) I get a distinct 1. Outside vibe, so much so that the song could easily fit on that album. Regardless of the call outs or similarities, Blackstar is a terrific work from one of the most gifted musicians out there. If you're a fan of David Bowie, buying Blackstar is a no-brainer. If you haven't listened to any of David Bowie's recent works, you'd do well to give it a try. Highly recommended. UPDATE: 1/12/16 The news of Mr. Bowie's passing has obviously changed one's impression of Blackstar. Where I wrote in my original review the song Lazarus was about Thomas Jerome Newton, the alien character Mr. Bowie played in the movie The Man Who Fell To Earth, as was stated by many when the single was first released, the song now takes on new dimensions with Mr. Bowie's passing and appears to be a song more about Mr. Bowie than Newton. In light of his passing, the similarities I found, if not sonically but with subject matter, between the song Blackstar and The Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud are particularly touching. I recall an interview where Mr. Bowie stated The Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud was (and I'm paraphrasing as I don't have the exact quote) was where it all began for him. Despite the success of Space Oddity, he identified the song as the first true "David Bowie" song. Given its subject matter which involves a town and an execution, it is intriguing how the song Blackstar invokes the same elements, almost as if Mr. Bowie was circling back to where he felt it all started for him with this final song and album title. After a few days of listening to the album, my opinion remains: This is a great work and a fitting self-made tribute to one of the most unique artists to ever grace our times. Rest in peace, Mr. Bowie. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 8, 2016 by E. R. Torre
    • Blackstar is real
David Bowie has been a true artist in so many different ways between his authentic music he created from things he thought of to things he imagined and his private artist collections he painted and sculpted. I love every album he ever put out and although his last and final album Blackstar is Dark he was expressing is life and goodbye & fears to us in this album , it’s hard to listen to without tears , he was a true artist that changed the life of many , he will live on in our hearts forever through his music and this is a must own album . ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 20, 2022 by santos Reyes

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