Previous posthumous records, such as Aaliyah’s I Care 4 U, Eazy-E’s Str8 Off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton and Joy Division’s Closer, have served as more than just albums they are memorials to their creators. It was during this period that he began working on Tim. In the final scene, Nina Simone’s Feeling Good blares out as Bergling sunbathes on a tropical beach. “I know I am blessed to be able to travel all around the world,” he said at the time, “but I have too little left for the life of a real person behind the artist.” In 2017, he released a documentary, Avicii: True Stories. He fired his manager and retired from touring. He later had surgery to remove his gallbladder, was prescribed drugs (including the addictive opioid Percocet) for physical pain, depression and anxiety, yet continued his gruelling schedule.īy 2016, he’d had enough. After being hospitalised in 2014, he was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis caused by excessive drinking. Bergling became one of the world’s highest-paid DJs and collaborated with Madonna, Coldplay and Nile Rogers, who called him “one of the greatest natural melody writers I’ve ever worked with”.Īs Bergling’s fame intensified, so did his problems. His 2013 song Wake Me Up, with soul singer Aloe Blacc, spent 26 weeks at No 1 on the US Billboard dance singles chart and was for a time the most-streamed song in Spotify history.
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His was the defining voice of EDM, the bombastic, Technicolor dance music that has dominated the charts in this decade. Released this week, the album was roughly two-thirds finished when Bergling killed himself on 20 April 2018 aged 28.
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L ast summer, a carefully chosen group of producers was given a challenging task – to complete Tim, the third album by the late Swedish DJ and producer Avicii, AKA Tim Bergling.