David Bowies longtime collaborator Brian Eno shared a touching statement after theartists death.

Davids death came as a complete surprise, as did nearly everything else about him, said Eno.

I feel a huge gap now.

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He was one of manycollaborators and musicians who spoke outafter Bowies death Sunday.

Read the rest of Enos statement posted byBBCbelow.

Davids death came as a complete surprise, as did nearly everything else about him.

I feel a huge gap now.

About a year ago we started talking about Outside the last album we worked on together.

We both liked that album a lot and felt that it had fallen through the cracks.

We talked about revisiting it, taking it somewhere new.

I was looking forward to that.

I received an email from him seven days ago.

It ended with this sentence: Thank you for our good times, brian.

they will never rot.

And it was signed Dawn.

I realise now he was saying goodbye.