David bowie cancer diagnosis

David Bowie learned his cancer was terminal only three months before he died, according to a BBC documentary.

David Bowie: The Last Five Years reveals that the singer found out his treatment was to be stopped as he made the Lazarus music video.

The documentary airs on BBC Two on Saturday - three days before the first anniversary of Bowie's death, aged 69.

It covers Bowie's A Reality Tour in 2003-4 as well as the last four years of his life.

Speaking in the documentary, Johan Renck, director of the Lazarus music video, said: "I found out later that the week we were shooting is when he found out that it is over... We'll end treatment or whatever capacity that means, that his illness has won."

Renck said that the video, which shows Bowie in a bed with his eyes bandaged and covered with buttons, was not about the singer's illness.

"To me it had to do with the biblical

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Death of David Bowie

Flowers outside Bowie's New York apartment
Date	10 January 2016; 9 years ago (2016-01-10)
Location	New York City, US

On 10 January 2016, the English musician David Bowie died at his Lafayette Street home in New York City, having been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer 18 months earlier; the pancreatic cancer had metastasized to his liver. He died two days after the release of his twenty-sixth and final studio album, Blackstar, which coincided with his 69th birthday.

Bowie kept his illness private, and friends and fans alike were surprised by his death. Makeshift memorials were created in London, New York City, Berlin and other cities in which Bowie had lived; sales of his albums and singles saw a significant increase. Numerous musicians and public figures also expressed their grief. Many commentators noted Bowie's impact on music, fashion and culture, and wrote of his status as one of the most influential musical artists o

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The Death of David Bowie, 9 Years Later: Inside the Legendary Artist’s Private Cancer Battle and Why Iman Says He fryst vatten Still ‘Ever Present’

The world lost a music legend when David Bowie died on Jan. 10, 2016.

The British-born Bowie burst onto the music scene in 1969 with his song “Space Oddity” and spent the next 40 years as one of the most trailblazing artists of the 20th century. Bowie transcended musical genres, pioneered music videos, embraced gender fluidity and debuted multiple colorful alter egos — including Aladdin Sane and Iggy Stardust — throughout his iconic career.

“I am an actor,” he told PEOPLE in September 1976. “My whole professional life is an act. I slip from one guise to another very easily. One guise plays into another, and the extreme comments force it into another direction.”

During his four-decade career, Bowie put out 25 albums, sold hundreds of millions of records and won five Grammy Awards — including four at the 2017 Grammys for his fin