David Bowie Career

174,000 Blackstar albums sold the week after David Bowie's death, according to Nielsen Music. $1900 was the cost of a matinee ticket to Lazarus, the New York musical he helped write on StubHub after his death. There is no better time to be an artist than when you've just died

David Bowie was perfectly cast as an alien adrift in the New Mexico desert in Nicholas Roeg's 1976 film, which opened up a parallel career path as an actor. He went on to play parts including a World War II prisoner of war in Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence and a vampire in The Hunger

174,000 Blackstar albums sold the week after David Bowie's death, according to Nielsen Music. $1900 was the cost of a matinee ticket to Lazarus, the New York musical he helped write on StubHub after his death. There is no better time to be an artist than when you've just died

David Bowie was perfectly cast as an alien adrift in the New Mexico desert in Nicholas Roeg's 1976 film, which opened up a parallel career path as an actor. He went on to play parts including a World War II prisoner of war in Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence and a vampire in The Hunger