This week Justin and I consider the life and career of David Bowie, casting him as a master practitioner of pop magick, who harnessed the occult energies of art and celebrity to implant himself permanently in our cultural DNA. Nothing in Bowie’s work expresses this more clearly than his final album, Blackstar, released on his 69th birthday and two days before his death from liver cancer in January 2016. In this conversation we talk about Bowie’s life, art, and final act, as we reflect on how his particularly curatorial, affectionate, subversive, playful approach to music and stardom resonates in pop culture literally everywhere you look.

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