Fans may have lost David Bowie to liver cancer in 2016, but his legacy is living on through his music. For one very lucky person, there’s an opportunity to snag an recently discovered demo Bowie recorded prior to his passing.
The demo for unreleased song “I Do Believe I Love You” is being sold in a U.K. auction after it was innocently discovered in a music seller’s back catalogue. The demo is predicted to be worth $6,327, and was recorded back in 1966 when Bowie was signed to Orbit Music as a songwriter.
Read MoreTurning To Creative Outlets During Cancer Treatment
For many people, turning to creative outlets like painting, writing, and making music can help cope with cancer treatment and distract them from challenges they’re facing.
Three-time cancer survivor Marianne Cuozzo turned to painting after being diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma at 28 years old as a way to express how she was feeling through her art. While talking through emotions can be helpful for many, Cuozzo says that her art reflects how she’s building confidence in her body and sexuality after undergoing a double mastectomy for breast cancer treatment.
“When I was first diagnosed when I was 28, I had a little studio at my house,” Cuozzo explains. “I’d go in the studio, and I had these huge pieces of charcoal. I would do these really angry charcoal drawings, and I’d roll them up and stuff them under the couch. No one was meant to see them because it was just for me and, my cathartic getting out my anger. Then recently, with having the breast cancer, it became a body image…My artwork is very reflective of my cancer journey.”
Super survivor Marianne Cuozzo shares how painting helped her cope with her cancer journey
For Matthew Zachary, who faced brain cancer when he was just 21, he chose to not go through chemotherapy treatments in fear that his career as a concert pianist would be in jeopardy he didn't want to do anything that might interfere with his ability to play piano. He had already gone through radiation and surgery which affected his ability to play, and wasn’t ready to give up his passion entirely.
“Here I am, concert pianist,” Zachary says. “Well, with cancer and after radiation and surgery, they wanted to give me chemotherapy. If I were to have taken the chemotherapy protocol, I would have never played piano again. So I went back to the doctor’s, and I said that to them ‘I don’t want your chemotherapy,’ and they yelled at me and like ‘we’re trying to save your life!’ What life would I have without piano?”
Brain cancer survivor Matthew Zachary chose his career as a concert pianist over chemotherapy
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