Hey I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

There's an ambitious new David Bowie documentary called Moon Age Day Dream coming out in

theater September 16th. It was directed by Brett Morgan who did the excellent Kurt Cobain

documentary montage of heck back in 2015 and just as he had access to Kurt Cobain's

archives he was given access to David Bowie's archives by his estate.

So today's episode is all about David Bowie.

First I want to play a conversation I have with Andy Green about David Bowie's final years,

which were fascinating and fruitful and tragic and awe-inspiring.

And then you're going to hear an interview I did with the legendary Nile Rogers where he talks about

working with Bowie on Let's Dance and more.

But first here's my conversation with Andy Green where we focus on Bowie's final 13 years or so,

beginning with the heart attack he suffered on stage during the reality tour.

Look up here, I'm in heaven.

So final act like no other rock star ever had because first there was total silence then there were two albums released out of nowhere that were brilliant especially the second

one Black Star I still think that album it remains one of the greatest

late period rock albums ever and when you consider it's a final statement a goodbye statement it becomes all the more incredible and also two music videos that were I mean honestly some of the greatest music videos I've ever seen.

They're directed by Johann Wrenk,

and they were for the song Black Star

and for the song Lazarus.

And I think there's enough stuff in those videos

to be studying for years, encoded messages. The Black Star One has

ranked admitted to me there's all this Alisto Crowley imagery in that video and

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