Lazarus co-creator Enda Walsh talks about his friend David Bowie in the Hot Press Annual

In shops now with the holy triumvirate of David Bowie, Prince and Leonard Cohen on the specially designed David Rooney cover, the Hot Press 2017 Annual contains an in-depth interview with Enda Walsh, the Irish playwright who worked with Mr. B on his Lazarus musical.
“God almighty, he was such a sweet man!” Enda tells Hot Press. “The guy was inspired by all art and everything around him. He realised that you can’t be constantly going over the same ground again and again. David wasn’t afraid to throw things away that had previously been successful for him, and think new stuff.”
Walsh was one of the handful of people outside of David’s family who knew he was seriously ill.
“We’d been working together for about a year-and-a-half when in May 2015 he told us that he was sick. And that was it, discussion over, back to the grindstone.”
Enda doesn’t buy into the notion of Lazarus and Blackstar being some sort of grandiose last will and testament.
“People say, ‘This is the man who stage-managed everything, but I never saw that,” he insists. “David was always saying, ‘What are we going to do next?’ Not once did I sense a finality talking to him.”
And that’s just for starters…

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