A new David Bowie music video and documentary have been released ahead of the first anniversary of the singer's death on Tuesday.
The unsettling clip for No Plan, directed by British designer Tom Hingston, shows a crowd gathering in front of a rain-strewn shopfront window as TV sets display the song's lyrics.
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Documentary and video mark David Bowie's death
A new music video marks the one-year anniversary of David Bowie's death, and the BBC releases a documentary about his last five years.
The single is one of three newly released songs from Lazarus, Bowie's 2015 stage musical based on the character he played in The Man Who Fell To Earth, collected on an EP of the same name.
The songs were recorded during the same sessions that resulted in his final album Blackstar, released just three days before his death.
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Bowie passed away from liver cancer on January 10 last year, just two days after his 69th birthday.
Overnight, Bowie's wife Iman led tributes to the singer on what would have been his 70th birthday, sharing private pics of the couple and the message "All it takes is 1 song to bring back 1,000 memories."
The singer's inspired final creative period, during which he made Lazarus and released two critically-acclaimed albums that reflected on both his life and legacy, were heavily featured in The Last Five Years, a new Bowie documentary that aired on BBC in the UK last weekend.
Starting with his on-stage heart attack at the 2004 Hurricane Festival in Germany – a gig that saw him give up live performance altogether – the 90-minute doco followed his secret comeback a decade later with the Mercury and Grammy-nominated The Next Day.
According to his bandmates, Bowie passed around non-disclosure agreements to musicians to make sure the project remained a secret (the album even had a codename – 'The Table'), hinting at the shock that surrounded his death.
According to his collaborators, Bowie kept his illness to himself for almost 18 months before his passing.
Dexter actor Michael C. Hall, who had the lead in Lazarus' original stage run, said the cast had no idea Bowie was ill, with the singer implying he was keen to work on a sequel to the stage show in the future.
The documentary featured previously unreleased shots of Bowie, post treatment, at rehearsals for the musical, which his longtime producer Tony Visconti called "a bucket list project".
The doco also charted Bowie's move into free jazz with pianist Maria Schneider and saxophonist Donny McCaslin, his band on his final album Blackstar.
It was during the filming of Blackstar's Lazarus music video, with its instantly memorable 'Button Eyes' persona, that the singer first found out his illness was terminal, director Johan Renck revealed.
The doco's closing credits also featured some levity: Visconti, opening an old Bowie recording file on his computer, says he noticed some previously unseen "wave forms".
"What's all this?" he asks, hitting his laptop's space bar. Suddenly, we hear the late singer from beyond.
"Little mouse fart," says Bowie's distinct voice.
"Little mouse part? Oh, he farted!" Visconti laughs. "David Bowie doesn't fart! No, we'll never hear David Bowie fart."