Blackstar (stylised as ★) is the twenty-fifth and final studio album by English musician David Bowie. It was released through Bowie's ISO Records label on 8 January 2016, the date of Bowie's 69th birthday and two days before his death. The title track was released as a single on 20 November 2015 and was used as the opening music for the television series The Last Panthers. "Lazarus" was released on 17 December 2015 as a digital download and received its world premiere on BBC Radio 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq the same day. The album was met with critical acclaim.
Recording of the album took place at The Magic Shop and Human Worldwide Studios in New York City. Bowie began writing and making demos for songs that appear on Blackstar as soon as sessions for The Next Day concluded. The two songs that appear on Blackstar that were previously released, "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)" and "'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore", were re-recorded for Blackstar, including new saxophone parts played on the latter song by Donny McCaslin (replacing parts Bowie played on the original release). According to producer Tony Visconti, the album was inspired by rapper Kendrick Lamar with his 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly, with electronic duo Boards of Canada and experimental hip-hop trio Death Grips also cited as influences for the album. The five star segments below the main star (on the album cover) can be read as stylised letters spelling 'b o w i e'.
The title of the second song takes up that of a play by John Ford, an English dramatist of the 17th century.
According to producer Tony Visconti, Bowie had planned for the album to be his swan song or "parting gift" for his fans before his death; he died two days after the album's release.
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