Biggie Smalls, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Joy Division - which are the best posthumous releases in music?
David Bowie, ‘No Plan EP’ (2017)
The soundtrack to Bowie’s musical ‘Lazarus’ featured a smattering of freshly-written tracks, and Bowie’s own takes on them were collected on the ‘No Plan EP’ on what would have been his 70th birthday. Like ‘Blackstar’, these were songs directly referencing his illness – “I’m falling, man/I’m choking, man/I’m fading, man” went ‘Killing A Little Time – but performed with a fresh creative invention that suggested the dying of the light was never so passionately raged against.
