Today would have been David Bowie 's 74th birthday - but instead, Sunday will mark five years since the icon's tragic passing.
His death on January 10, 2016, came as a complete shock to all but his closest friends, with the star having kept his liver cancer diagnosis a secret.
The disease was first discovered in 2014, and when David turned up for the recording of his final album, Blackstar, with no hair or eyebrows due to chemotherapy, he swore everyone he worked with to secrecy.
In his darkest moments though, he turned to one of his closest collaborators, Tony Visconti. “Sometimes he would phone me when he just finished treatment," Tony told Rolling Stone in 2016. "He couldn’t talk very loud.
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