A brand new David Bowie song - his last-ever complete recording - has been discovered nine months after his death.

According to a report in The Times , the previously unknown track was found during research for a new book about the late icon, who lost his battle with cancer in January.

The unreleased song, entitled Blaze, is thought to have been completed at the latter end of his studio sessions for critically-acclaimed LP Blackstar, which topped the charts and simultaneously impressed critics.

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Despite his ill health at the time, Bowie's recording is said to "transport the listener on waves of optimism", according to Nicholas Pegg, author of The Complete David Bowie, who personally discovered the audio.

He says the lyrics showed Bowie “returning to his long-cherished motif of space travel as an existential metaphor”, while “the title [ Blaze ] is apt; the Blackstar sessions concluded in a blaze of glory,” .

The Times add that the elusive song was originally considered for the Lazarus musical soundtrack, although it was later scrapped in favour of more well-known material.

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Frustratingly, it remains unclear whether fans will ever get to hear the recording as there's no indication from Bowie's management that it will ever formally be released.

The news comes shortly after Lazarus co-writer, Enda Walsh, revealed that Bowie still had plenty more to give.

“David was always responding to where he was at that moment emotionally, rhythmically, musically,"he told The Telegraph. "He had many, many more ideas of songs to write and books that he wanted to do.”

“He’d be talking about doing this and this and this, working with this author on this book. It was like talking to someone in their mid-twenties. He was really fired up.”