Kate Moss has revealed the final message she sent to David Bowie before the pop legend’s death to cancer.
Bowie passed away at the New York apartment he shared with model wife Iman and their daughter Lexi in January 2016, just 18 months after being diagnosed with liver cancer.
The reclusive star had chosen not to disclose his diagnosis and worked consistently while battling the illness, with final album Blackstar released two days before his death, on his 69th birthday.
Moss, who enjoyed a close friendship with Bowie, will now draw attention to his lasting cultural impact on music and fashion in a new eight-part podcast series, David Bowie: Changeling.
Recalling her last communication with the pop pioneer during an appearance on Nick Grimshaw’s 6 Music, she said: ‘The last message I sent him was his birthday message and I sent him a film of me with a big piece of paper saying “Happy Birthday D” and I sat on a stool, and I sang Mr Bojangles, and I sent it to him’.
‘It was delivered, and then I was going to bed and [he] died. It was awful and I spoke to Noel Gallagher actually, he was the first person I called. I was like “Noel”, he went “I know”‘.
Kate Moss has revealed the final message she sent to David Bowie before the pop legend’s death to cancer (pictured together in 2006)
Moss, who enjoyed a close friendship with Bowie, will draw attention to his lasting cultural impact on music and fashion in a new eight-part podcast series, David Bowie: Changeling
Moss famously wore the singer’s iconic Kansai Yamamoto jumpsuit to accept an award on his behalf to the 2014 BRIT Awards, however a decade earlier she’d struggled to squeeze into one of his get ups following the birth of daughter Lila, now 22.
Speaking to Nick Grimshaw on 6 Music she laughed: ‘I was just so happy because the last time I’d worn his clothes, I couldn’t get in them properly, because it, you know, it was just after I’d had a baby, and it was like, one of my first jobs back’.
‘When I interviewed him for Q [their first meeting in 2003] he was like: “So I hear the clothes didn’t really fit you?” He was such a b**ch! He really was quite cutting’.
‘But no, obviously fabulous, because that’s banter isn’t it. He had banter’.
The model’s eight-part podcast series features rare and unheard archive interviews from the Under Pressure hitmaker.
It also features new interviews from those who knew and were inspired by the performer, including Boy George, Chrissie Hynde, Dave Gahan, Edward Enninful, Elton John, Goldie, Iggy Pop, Harris Reed, Robbie Williams and Twiggy.
Speaking of her new project, Moss said: ‘David Bowie was a very special person. Someone who was much more than a friend – he was an enigma.
‘So, when the chance came to dive into this extraordinary five-year chapter of Bowie’s life for 6 Music and BBC Sounds, hearing from those who joined him on his creative journey and those he continues to inspire, I was excited to help share the story of such an incredible transformation.
Moss famously wore the singer’s iconic Kansai Yamamoto jumpsuit to accept an award on his behalf to the 2014 BRIT Awards (pictured)
Bowie wore the same jumpsuit onstage at London’s Hammersmith Odeon in June 1973 (pictured)
‘This podcast is a real celebration of my friend, a true British icon.’
The podcast features an exclusive interview from 2001 with podcast creator Des Shaw, in addition to a recently unearthed audio from the BBC Archive.
While archive chats from the likes of Lady Gaga, Sinéad O’Connor, Lou Reed, and Tracey Emin were also included.
Episodes of the show explored Bowie’s early performances with The Hype, his fascination with artist Andy Warhol and the creation of The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars.
It comes after Lulu claimed Bowie recommended that she ‘lose some weight’ when they worked together.
The Shout singer, 75, who is touring the UK later this month, has opened up about her relationship with the star in her new memoir If Only You Knew, which will be released on September 25.
She confessed that Bowie had become ‘nocturnal’ when they were recording together, which she later found out was caused by cocaine, according to the Sun.
She said: ‘I had two days off and David and I were going to record The Man Who Sold the World and Watch That Man.
‘”Maybe you could lose a bit of weight,” David said nonchalantly as we sat together on the first night. Ouch.’
Moss recalled her last communication with the pop pioneer during an appearance on Nick Grimshaw ‘s 6 Music (pictured)
It comes after Lulu claimed Bowie recommended that she ‘lose some weight’ when they worked together (pictured 1973)
The pair collaborated on a handful of songs over the years but his career and spiralling drug use meant an album was never completed.
Their relationship may have been short-lived, Lulu has previously described it as ‘amazing’ and told how sexual chemistry brought them together.
But she explained how music also united them – and revealed there’s a cache of lost songs that were recorded during their time together.
The tracks have never been heard and – nobody knows where they are.
DailyMail has contacted Lulu’s representatives for a comment.
BBC Radio 6 Music podcast, Music Uncovered, David Bowie: Changeling is available on BBC Sounds now.
