{"id":31169,"date":"2025-01-08T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-8-2016-david-bowie-released-his-final-album-blackstar\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T12:00:40","slug":"on-this-day-jan-8-2016-david-bowie-released-his-final-album-blackstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-8-2016-david-bowie-released-his-final-album-blackstar\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Jan. 8, 2016: David Bowie released his final album, &#8216;Blackstar&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-03\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag_2.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Jan. 8, 2016 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>David Bowie<\/strong> released his 25th album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Blackstar<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, to coincide with his 69th birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The record, produced by longtime producer <strong>Tony Visconti<\/strong>, wound up being Bowie\u2019s final release, as it came out just two days before his death from liver cancer. The album had been recorded in secret while he was battling the disease, and Visconti described the record as Bowie\u2019s \u201cparting gift\u201d to fans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Blackstar<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> debuted at #1 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> 200 Album chart, making it Bowie\u2019s only #1 album. It also went to #1 in several other countries, including the U.K., Canada, France and Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A critical and commercial success, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Blackstar<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> won three Grammy Awards, including best alternative music album, and was named British album of the year at the 2017 Brit Awards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Jan. 8, 2016 &#8230; David Bowie released his 25th album, Blackstar, to coincide with his 69th birthday. The record, produced by longtime producer Tony Visconti, wound up being Bowie\u2019s final release, as it came out just two days before his death from liver cancer. The album had<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-8-2016-david-bowie-released-his-final-album-blackstar\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}