David Bowie Wrote Wild, Pre-'Lazarus' Play With Fake Bob Dylan Songs

In its final form, David Bowie's surreal 2015 musical, Lazarus, featured the musician's own songs within a plot inspired by Nicolas Roeg's 1976 sci-fi/drama film The Man Who Fell to Earth. But the project's origins were more bizarre and experimental than originally thought.In an expansive GQ piece, novelist Michael Cunningham revealed that he and Bowie collaborated for a full year on a musical involving aliens, poet Emma Lazarus, a mariachi band and a "stockpile of unknown, unrecorded Bob Dylan