David Bowie's longtime friend Brian Eno reveals how singer said goodbye to him

 

David Bowie's longtime collaborator Brian Eno reveals how legendary singer said goodbye to him

Frequent David Bowie collaborator Brian Eno told how he received an email from the music icon just a week before his death from cancer at the age of 69.
The musician and producer said he now realised the email - which Bowie ended with the words 'Thank you for our good times, Brian, they will never rot' - was his way of saying 'goodbye.'
Eno, 67, who worked with Bowie on albums including his legendary Berlin Trilogy in the mid-1970s, said: "David's death came as a complete surprise, as did nearly everything else about him. I feel a huge gap now."
Eno, who also worked on Bowie's later album Outside and on the song I'm Afraid Of Americans, added: "We knew each other for over 40 years, in a friendship that was always tinged by echoes of Pete and Dud.

 

Eno, 67, who worked with Bowie on albums including his legendary Berlin Trilogy in the mid-1970s

"Over the last few years - with him living in New York and me in London - our connection was by email. We signed off with invented names: some of his were Mr Showbiz, Milton Keynes, Rhoda Borrocks and The Duke of Ear.
"About 12 months ago we started talking about Outside - the last album we worked on together. We both liked that album a lot and felt that it had fallen through the cracks.
"We talked about revisiting it, taking it somewhere new. I was looking forward to that.

 

Robert Fripp, Brian Eno and David Bowie behind the scenes in the studio where they are recorded Heroes in 1977

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"I received an email from him seven days ago. It was as funny as always, and as surreal, looping through word games and allusions and all the usual stuff we did.
"It ended with this sentence: 'Thank you for our good times, Brian, they will never rot'. And it was signed 'Dawn'.
"I realise now he was saying goodbye."
Stars from the world of showbiz and entertainment have summoned the words of the legend to pay tribute to their idol.
The 69-year-old - known for hits such as Changes, Ashes To Ashes and Starman - left a legacy created by pioneering musicianship and ground-breaking lyrics dating back almost half a century.
He died on Sunday after suffering from cancer for 18 months.
Australian actor Russell Crowe, referencing one of Bowie's better known singles which featured on covers album Pin Ups 1973, wrote: "RIP David. I loved your music. I loved you. One of the greatest performance artists to have ever lived. £sorrow"