Md. Taqi Yasir
David Bowie- the English singer, songwriter, actor and record producer breathed his last this 10th of January. To respect his memoirs, the New York City arranged two consecutive tribute concerts this Thursday and Friday. Thursday’s concert was held at Carnegie Hall which was a star-studded themed tribute events organized annually by entrepreneur Michael Dorf. Actually, the Carnegie Hall tribute was supposed to be a concert of Bowie himself, but he died at the age of 69, the day when the plan of the concert was made.
Jakob Dylan, Michael Stipe, the Flaming Lips and Heart’s Ann Wilson were among the artists who joined Bowie’s former partner Tony Visconti and other musicians on stage at Carnegie Hall. “God bless David Bowie,” Dylan said after performing the 1970s national hymn Heroes.
It was a two hours concert and the next show was performed yesterday at Radio City Music Hall. Additional funds will be raised for the charities via a live stream of the Radio City Music Hall available to those who donate at least $5 through a website of David Bowie named musicofdavidbowie.com.
The unexpected bereavement of David Bowie has turned this concert into a tribute, but the organizers had been working for more than 7 months to turn this into a successful David Bowie live show.
Deborah Harry brought the mass to its feet with her take on Starman. Cyndi Lauper, with yarn candy-pink hair, struggled with the lyrics to Suffragette City and Laurie Anderson’s Always Crashing in the Same Car sounded under-rehearsed. Wilson got the audience moving with Let’s Dance, while Rickie Lee Jones spoke-sang an acoustic version of All the Young Dudes. After a feedback-drenched take on The Man Who Sold the World, Joseph Arthur unfurled an American flag that had a controversial message to Donald Trump spray-painted on it.
Overall the tribute was a successful one with lots of attributes and features that happened to show a grand salute to the remains of the legend and the pioneer David Bowie.