David Bowie was an enormous Elvis Presley fan, once calling the legendary star "a major hero of mine". The stars were both born on January 8, prompting Bowie to say: "I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something. " The King died young on August 16, 1977 due to cardiac arrest, Bowie was 69 when he died on January 10, 2016, from liver cancer. SCROLL DOWN TO LISTEN TO DAVID BOWIE'S BLACKSTARTwo days before his untimely death, his 69th birthday, Bowie released his 25th and final studio album, Blackstar.
The record is a haunting display of the emotion and dread the singer was going through at the time. Suffering from a terminal illness, Blackstar and its singles show just how he was.
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