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Lazarus
Lazarus is the cast recording of the stage musical built around David Bowie's songs, with a book by Enda Walsh. It takes its cue from Walter Tevis's 1963 novel The Man Who Fell to Earth and picks up the story of Thomas Newton, a humanoid alien who is stranded on Earth, unable to die or to return to his home planet. The album came out on Columbia on 21 October 2016.
The show opened Off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop in November 2015 and ran into January 2016, before moving to King's Cross Theatre in London's West End from 25 October 2016 to 22 January 2017. The record sits alongside ★ (2016), the last studio album of Bowie's lifetime, and offers a different angle on his work: his songs reshaped as theatre, serving a character he had already given life to. It is one for listeners curious about how his writing holds up in a story.
Lazarus: tracklist and credits
23 tracks · 1:22:05Tracklist
- Disc 1
- 1Hello Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart)Cayet Mangiaracina and Gene Pitney0:41
- 2LazarusDavid Bowie3:39
- 3It’s No GameDavid Bowie3:54
- 4This Is Not AmericaBowie, Mays, Metheny4:18
- 5The Man Who Sold the WorldDavid Bowie3:22
- 6No PlanDavid Bowie3:36
- 7Love Is LostDavid Bowie2:55
- 8ChangesDavid Bowie and Daniel Licht3:58
- 9Where Are We Now?David Bowie4:23
- Disc 2
- 1Absolute BeginnersDavid Bowie4:41
- 2Dirty BoysDavid Bowie2:29
- 3Killing a Little TimeDavid Bowie3:49
- 4Life on Mars?David Bowie3:48
- 5All the Young DudesDavid Bowie2:55
- 6Sound and VisionDavid Bowie0:40
- 7Always Crashing in the Same CarDavid Bowie3:12
- 8Valentine’s DayDavid Bowie3:01
- 9When I Met YouDavid Bowie3:56
- 10HeroesDavid Bowie and Brian Eno4:43
- Disc 3
- 1LazarusDavid Bowie6:24
- 2No PlanDavid Bowie3:42
- 3Killing a Little TimeDavid Bowie3:49
- 4When I Met YouDavid Bowie4:09
- Produced by
- David Bowie, Tony Visconti
- Recorded at
- The Magic Shop, Human Worldwide
- Recorded
- January 2015 – May 2015
- Mixed by
- David Bowie, Tony Visconti
- Mixed at
- Electric Lady Studios
- Engineered by
- Kevin Killen, Tony Visconti
- Label
- Columbia
- Length
- 1:22:05
Line-up
- David Bowie · electric guitar, background vocals, guitar, lead vocals · guest
- Mark Guiliana · drums (drum set) · guest
- Tim Lefebvre · bass · guest
- Jason Lindner · organ, synthesizer, Moog, Minimoog, Wurlitzer electric piano · guest
- Donny McCaslin · tenor saxophone, clarinet, alto flute, concert flute · guest
- Ben Monder · guitar, acoustic guitar · guest
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| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 21 October 2016 | |
| US release | 21 October 2016 | earliest US date |
4 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | US | Columbia | 889853745517 | other |
| 21 October 2016 | FR | Columbia | 889853749126 | original |
| 21 October 2016 | — | Columbia | 886446072487 | original |
| 21 October 2016 | US | Columbia | 889853749126 | original |
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