The distinctive artwork for the Lazarus cast recording has been designed by Jonathan Barnbrook who also worked with Bowie on the BLACKSTAR, The Next Day, Heathen and Nothing Has Changed albums. BUY YOUR CD HERE The Lazarus Standard Vinyl includes 3 x 180 gram lps presented in a gatefold jacket with an 8-page booklet, and including a digital D/L card. Their emotional performances that day are captured on this recording. Upon arriving at the studio, the musicians and cast were shocked and saddened to learn that Bowie had passed away the evening before. The Lazarus cast album was produced by the show’s musical director Henry Hey, who had previously worked with Bowie on “The Next Day” and features vocals from Hall, Caruso, Cristin Milioti, Michael Esper and other cast members backed by the seven-piece house band Hey assembled for the New York run. The original BLACKSTAR version of “Lazarus” is also included on the cast album. Co-produced by Bowie and Tony Visconti and recorded with Donny McCaslin and his quartet, the same band that played on Bowie’s BLACKSTAR album, these last three songs - “No Plan,” “Killing A Little Time,” “When I Met You”- bring completely new dimensions to their cast counterparts. The 'Blackstar' album was released on Bowie's birthday in 2016 to warm reviews. An exile, a resurrected alien stranded among the living. 'Lazarus' premiered on BBC Radio 6's Steve Lamacq Show on December 17, 2015, and was widely praised for continuing the adventurous direction his work had taken with the release of the 'Blackstar' single the previous month. He briefly intersects with the divine and then he’s left behind in the story. In the annual The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop mass critics poll of the year's best in music in 2016, 'Lazarus' was ranked at number 8.Standing alongside the cast’s interpretations of classics from his canon are the three final David Bowie studio recordings. We don’t know how he felt, waking up in a tomb after four days of death, his body stinking, swathed in bandages. Pitchfork listed 'Lazarus' on their ranking of the 100 best songs of 2016 at number 5. Billboard ranked 'Lazarus' at number 40 on their '100 Best Pop Songs of 2016' list.

Hall appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, singing 'Lazarus' to promote both the single's release and the musical running at New York Theatre Workshop starring Hall.'Lazarus' was Bowie's first top 40 hit single on the Billboard Hot 100 in more than 28 years, landing at number 40 in the week after his death.

Bowie never performed the song live, but on 17 December 2015, Michael C. The official music video, directed by Johan Renck, was released on 7 January 2016, three days before Bowie's death. It is not clear why Bowie referenced the Biblical name in the song title (the word 'Lazarus' doesn't appear in the lyrics). In addition to its release on Blackstar, the track is used in Bowie's off-Broadway musical of the same name. Lazarus is a character in the Gospel of John that was restored to life four days after his death by Jesus Christ. The single received its world premiere on BBC Radio 6 Music's Steve Lamacq on the day of its release as a single. It is Bowie's last single to be released during his lifetime.

It was released on 17 December 2015 as a digital download, making it the second single from his twenty-fifth studio album, Blackstar (2016). 'Lazarus' is a song by English rock musician David Bowie.

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