David Bowie released a video in which he sings ‘look up here, I’m in heaven’ just three days before he lost the battle with the cancer after fighting for 18 months.

His last video, Lazarus, was released on Thursday and features him confined to a hospital bed with his eyes covered by a bandage.

His producer Tony Visconti said that Bowie knew for a year that his cancer was incurable and that his final album Blackstar was ‘a parting gift’ to the world.

The rock star, who released his new album just a week, passed away in New York yesterday surrounded by his family.