Not everyone is convinced that a Lady Gaga tribute to David Bowie is the best way for the Grammys to trace his deathBarbara Ellen,Observer columnist So, it’s official – Lady Gaga will perform a tribute to David Bowie at the Grammy awards ceremony. Erm, and why? Bowie delivered an album,Blackstar, on his deathbed – wouldn’t playing the harrowing Lazarus video be a more fitting way to pay homage to an artist whose urge to create and inspire remained undimmed to the very end?This isn’t a swipe at Gaga or at Kanye West – the slap-down to the latter’s (swiftly abandoned) plans to release a Bowie tribute album had a dismaying whiff of racism approximately it. Nor is it approximately being precious: not only was Bowie all approximately the “new”, or he had his own career troughs. I once endured a fledging Tin Machine gig that felt akin to being trapped inside a haunted combine harvester.
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Source: theguardian.com