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“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring,” said the late David Bowie back in 1997. It\u2019s a poignant statement given his death, aged 69, this week after an 18-month battle with cancer.<\/p>\n“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring,” said the late David Bowie back in 1997. It\u2019s a poignant statement given his death, aged 69, this week after an 18-month battle with cancer.<\/p>\n
And the OU\u2019s Dr Frank Monaghan says it\u2019s as applicable to his art as it was to his life. In an article on identity and creativity<\/a>, Dr Monaghan, of the Department of Applied Linguistics and English Language, takes a look at Bowie\u2019s constant evolution as an artist and one of the most influential musicians of his era.<\/p>\n ‘Scars that can’t be seen’<\/strong> \u201cKnowing that he was dying of cancer at the time he wrote the song and indeed made the video, Bowie poignantly foretells his death. In this regard it is a bio-obituary, as he tells the world of his ‘scars that can’t be seen’, his ‘drama that can’t be stolen’ and that he has \u2018nothing left to lose\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n His later work, says Dr Elizabeth Tilley<\/a>, of the OU\u2019s Department of Health and Social Care, also saw him tackle the taboo of death and what made him such an important cultural icon: issues of gender and identity.<\/p>\n There are more articles about David Bowie and some of the topics covered during his rise to fame on OpenLearn<\/a>.<\/p>\n Photo by grauhase<\/a> “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring,” said the late David Bowie back in 1997. It\u2019s a poignant statement given his death, aged 69, this week after an 18-month battle with cancer. And the OU\u2019s Dr Frank Monaghan says it\u2019s as applicable to his art as it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[163,349,523,540,568,582,953,1125,1287,1491],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-literature-music","tag-artist","tag-cancer","tag-creativity","tag-cultural-icon","tag-david-bowie","tag-death","tag-gender","tag-identity","tag-lazarus","tag-musician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBowie\u2019s last single, Lazarus<\/em>, highlights an attitude to a death he was almost certainly expecting, says Professor Jan Draper<\/a>, of the OU\u2019s Department of Nursing.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ounews.co\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-inject\/images\/cc.png\")
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