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Mayor Bill de Blasio issued a proclamation making January 20, 2016 "David Bowie Day" that will be read at the final curtain call of Lazarus. David Bowie died on January 10 after an 18-month battle with cancer that he did not disclose to the public. His death came two days after he released his last album Blackstar
174,000 Blackstar albums sold the week after David Bowie's death, according to Nielsen Music. $1900 was the cost of a matinee ticket to Lazarus, the New York musical he helped write on StubHub after his death. There is no better time to be an artist than when you've just died
David Bowie not only scored his first US number one album but became among the rare artists to have two in the top five, with his greatest hits collection Best of Bowie, released in 2002, hitting number four. Blackstar wrested number one from Adele's blockbuster 25, which had topped the chart for seven weeks
"At that late stage, David Bowie was planning the follow-up to Blackstar. And I was thrilled and I thought and he thought that he'd have a few months, at least. Obviously, if he's excited about doing his next album, he must've thought he had a few more months," his collaborator, Mr Visconti, said in an interview