As the last songs Bowie recorded are released as part of an album accompanying the Lazarus stage show, we look into the extraordinary breadth and depth of his creative endeavours in music, film and beyond

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An album featuring the last studio recordings made by David Bowie goes on sale this week, almost five decades after his first, eponymous, album hit the shelves in 1967.



The Lazarus cast album, which is being released ahead of the opening of the stage show of the same name at London’s Kings Cross Theatre next month, features three new Bowie songs: No Plan, Killing a Little Time and When I Met You.



These final recordings mark the last chapter in Bowie’s extraordinary creative output, which – not counting this latest release – included 27 studio albums, almost 60 music videos, 38 acting credits (including cameos and one appearance in a video game) and 14 tours, as well as involvement in 30 other artists’ recordings (as a performer and producer) and 14 guest appearances in video albums, including Live Aid and the 1992 Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for Aids Awareness.

But even a list as long as this cannot claim to be a comprehensive account of Bowie’s work: not included here, for example, are his many paintings.



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