Bowie mysterious to the last on swansong ‘Blackstar’


LONDON, Jan 11, 2016 (AFP) - Few knew when David Bowie (pic) released "Blackstar" on Friday that it would be his final album -- but it is a mysterious and sombre testament which critics hailed as his best work in years.

Inventive to the end, Bowie, who died on Sunday aged 69, mixed rock and jazz on an album for which the famously private star gave no interviews and whose cover was a simple black star on a white background.

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