Tomorrow, done in London on a great show in tribute to the musician, who until February is going to pass even for New York, Los Angeles, Sydney and Tokyo.
Makes tomorrow a year, the world rejoiced with the release of a new album of original David Bowie, the challenging Blackstar, edited on the day of the years of the musician, hardly imagining that only two days later, Bowie would eventually die, a victim of cancer. Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the musician with a great show of tribute, Celebrating David Bowie, which brings together several of the musicians who worked with Bowie all along your route. The premiere is tomorrow in London at the O2 Arena, and up to February visit New York, Los Angeles, Sydney and Tokyo.
In London the concert will be led by actor Gary Oldman, who participated in the controversial video of The Next Day, Bowie, alongside Marion Cotillard, wearing the skin of a bishop in a video that played with the christian symbolism. Oldman, a longtime friend of the musician, was chosen to do a tribute to the singer in February last year at the time of the realization of the Brit Awards, having read his last words.
To the Daily Mail, Oldman told me that he met David Bowie in 1988, behind the scenes of a play of a common friend, and since then have remained close, having arrived to do a duet on a version of the theme You”ve Been Around, included in The album The Sacred Squall of Now, Reeves Gabrels in 1993.
Gary Oldman will lead a troupe of three dozen musicians who will celebrate the life and work of David Bowie. Among them is Mike Garson, the pianist initially hired for a period of eight weeks to follow the tour Ziggy Stardust, in September 1972. Between 1972 and 1973, Bowie fired five bands, but always maintained Garson. These eight-week contract continued in years, having Mike Garson state to the side of Bowie until 1975, recording together the albums, Alladin Sane (1973) Pin Ups (1973), Diamond Dogs (1974) Young Americans (1975). They returned to the working together already at the beginning of the 1990s, in the soundtrack of The Buddha of Suburbia (1993) and on the album Outside (1995), Earthling (1997) and Reality (2003), a period that also became a key element of the band musician, having worked together until the last live performance of Bowie, in 2006, on a charity event in New York city, with Alicia Keys.
The bass player Gail Ann Dorsey also accompanied the musician up until his last concerts. Bowie had his first contact with Dorsey in 1989, when he was promoting his solo album in an interview. But only five years later you called to challenge her to join his group on a tour with Nine Inch Nails. “I was in shock when I realized that it was even him on the phone. At the beginning I thought that he was someone to preach me a match,” said the bassist of the Rolling Stone. Signed a contract for six weeks, but just to keep up with the musician over two decades, having also participated in the recordings of his penultimate album, The Next Day (2013).
The guitarist Adrian Belew also will join in this Celebrating David Bowie. The story has it that David Bowie “stole” Belew with Frank Zappa in 1978, during a concert of the north american Colony. The invitation to join the band was done even during the performance, while Zappa was a solo, and Belew was behind the scenes. The negotiations that followed were dominated by secrecy – “it seemed like a movie of spies,” said Belew to the website Ultimate Classic Rock – until we both ended up having a meeting is not very pleasant with the own Zappa. Belew he then joined Bowie in 1978 for their tour of the world Isolate II – The World Tour, having also played on the album Lodger (1979), returning to the track the musician already in 1990, in the tour Sound + Vision Tour, which passed at the time by the then Alvalade Stadium, in Lisbon.
these names are going to join–if many other musicians who have followed David Bowie in the studio and on stage, from Slick Rick, Sterling Campbell, Mark Plati, Gerry Leonard, Holly Palmer or Catherine Russell. Revenues from the concert of tomorrow shall revert to the association of charity Children and the Arts.
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