After battling cancer for 18 months, legendary pop icon David Bowie passed away at the age of 69. As per cnn.com, his official social media accounts released the statement. Bowie was best known for his ever-evolving personas and adaptability in his sound over the years.
"David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer," said the statement. "While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family's privacy during their time of grief."
According to nme.com, producer Brian Eno said he realized that Bowie was already saying goodbye in their last email exchanges. "David's death came as a complete surprise, as did nearly everything else about him," Eno said. "I feel a huge gap now. We knew each other for over 40 years, in a friendship that was always tinged by echoes of [comic characters] Pete and Dud."
"Over the last few years - with him living in New York and me in London - our connection was by email," Eno shared. "We signed off with invented names: some of his were Mr Showbiz, Milton Keynes, Rhoda Borrocks and the Duke of Ear."
"I received an email from him seven days ago," he explained. "It was as funny as always, and as surreal, looping through word games and allusions and all the usual stuff we did. It ended with this sentence: 'Thank you for our good times, Brian. they will never rot'. And it was signed 'Dawn'. I realise now he was saying goodbye."
He then concluded, "About a year ago we started talking about 'Outside' - the last album we worked on together. We both liked that album a lot and felt that it had fallen through the cracks. We talked about revisiting it, taking it somewhere new. I was looking forward to that."
