David Bowie’s media adviser has recounted his poignant final meeting with the rock legend, who passed away shortly after.

Bowie died on January 10, 2016, 18 months after being diagnosed with liver cancer. He was 69. He had as one of the most prominent and talented musicians of the 20th century.

More than eight years after Bowie’s passing, music publicist Alan Edwards has recounted the times he spent with the star in a new book, I Was There, in which he covers his interactions with a range of high-profile music figures.

Discussing the final time he saw Bowie, Edwards revealed that it came about through a business-as-usual call, when the musician rang him ahead of the release of his 2016 album, Blackstar. However, this call had a sense of urgency.

Recounting his conversation with an assistant who had taken the call, Edwards told People: “She said, ‘Do you think you could [meet] in a couple of days?’ [I thought] he must be really excited about this record.”

When subsequently met up, Edwards walked in to see “Heroes” hitmaker Bowie watching Clint Eastwood’s classic movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

“We’re flipping into a bit of Blackstar now and again. And he starts telling me these great stories about the 1960s when he was starting out in clubs and ducking and diving,” Edwards shared. “So I was matching him with a few of my stories. And it’s really, really good fun, really intimate.”

Later, as their time together continued out in the street, the two men embraced before parting ways. “David gives me a hug. And of course that was the last time I saw him,” Edwards said. “He was probably more poorly that day than I realized.

“I suppose he wanted to say goodbye to me. You never know what people really think about you. You can’t take it for granted. And I’d worked for him for nearly four decades. And maybe that was his sort of goodnight.”

Bowie, who was at the time of his death, passed away just two days after his final album, Blackstar, was released.

Edwards—who has also written about his time with the likes of The Rolling Stones, Blondie, Prince, The Spice Girls, and Amy Winehouse—also shared some of the fun memories he holds of Bowie.

The music industry veteran told People how Bowie went to great effort to blend in when they took a train to Manchester, northern England.

“We weren’t in first class,” Edwards said. “People would be thinking, ‘It can’t be David Bowie.’ He would carry a Greek newspaper under his arm and often wear a cap so that people would think he can’t be David Bowie.”

Bowie also tried his hand at a different career one day. In an impromptu move following a radio interview, the star asked if he could read traffic reports live on air.

“So he spent the rest of the program telling people about the pile-ups on the M6 [freeway], or there’s delays on the M25. I don’t think anybody picked up on it,” Edwards shared.