They revealed what is the secret project in which David Bowie worked before his death

The final secret project of David Bowie It has been revealed after being found in the study of the late musician.

In 2016, Bowie shared his last creative offer in the album “Blackstar”which was launched only a few days before his death and saw him face his own mortality in the middle of an 18 -month battle against cancer.

Now, it was known that he spent his last months working on a separate project, described in his notes as a “Musical of the 18th century” entitled The Spectatorwhose details kept secret, and whose existence remained unknown even for its closest collaborators until the notes enclosed in their study in 2016 were discovered.

What is the sample about David Bowie’s work

The room was always closed, accessible only for Bowie and its personal assistant, so all its handwritten notes remained intact until the archivists began to catalog their belongings. They have now been donated to the Victoria and Alberto Museum, along with the rest of the Bowie file.

Fans can see them when the David Bowie Center In the V & A East Storehouse at Hackney Wick on September 13, with The Last Dinner Party and Nile Rodgers healing special exhibitions.

Together with 90,000 articles related to the iconic artist, the collection will track Bowie’s “creative processes as a musical innovative, cultural icon and defender of self -expression and reinvention”, and has been acquired by the V&M through David Bowie Estate, the Blavatnik Family Foundation and Warner Music Group.

The photographs of the musician’s notes with the BBC show that Bowie was very interested in the development of art and culture in the 18th century London, and also felt attracted to the stories about criminal gangs and the famous thief “honest” Jack Sheppard.

Having completed the musical, The Spectator would have realized one of Bowie’s lifelong ambitions. In 2002, he talked about his ambition to write for theater, and told John Wilson of BBC Radio 4: “I guess I could have written for theater in my living room, but I think LIntended it was to reach a fairly large audience“

Shortly before he died, Bowie wrote the musical Lazarus with WALSH Endawhich was inspired by Walter Tevis’s novel The man who fell to earthwhose 1976 film adaptation starred Bowie.

The show was presented for the first time for a six -week season in New York at the end of 2015 and early 2016 and then moved to the Kings Cross Theater in London from November 2016 to January 2017.

The musical songs were later released as a posthumous album and also became a virtual reality experience.