David Bowie was working on an “18th Century Musical” at the time of his death

David Bowie was working on a secret project at the time of his death in 2016, as reported by the BBC. ‘The Spectator’ was envisaged by Bowie to be an “18th Century Musical” based on the daily periodical of the same name, published by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in London from 1711 to 1712. AdvertisementA series of post-it notes relating to the plot of ‘The Spectator’ were left stuck to the wall of Bowie’s study in New York. Advertisement“He was interested in the development of musicals themselves in London in this period, and how musicals were used for political satire, particularly towards the Robert Walpole government,” says Madeleine Haddon, curator of the David Bowie Archive. “It’s interesting to think that Bowie was working on this in the US in 2015, with the political situation that was taking place there.