Blackstar [ 180g vinyl Gatefold]

Blackstar (stylised as ★) is the twenty-sixth and final studio album by the English musician David Bowie. Released on 8 January 2016, Bowie’s 69th birthday, the album was recorded in secret in New York City with his longtime co-producer Tony Visconti and a group of local jazz musicians: Donny McCaslin (saxophone), Jason Lindner (piano), Tim Lefebvre (bass) and Mark Guiliana (drums). Ben Monder and James Murphy contributed additional guitar and percussion, respectively. The album contains “Lazarus”, from the 2015 musical of the same name, and re-recorded versions of the 2014 songs “Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)” and “‘Tis a Pity She Was a Whore”.