NEW YORK (AP) — Tickets for David Bowie’s Broadway musical “Lazarus” are a hot commodity after his death on Sunday. Tickets for a Tuesday afternoon matinee were selling on StubHub for as much as $1,900, but now even those are unavailable. The show was already a hit before Bowie died. “Lazarus” has been continuing to run as planned, and the only acknowledgement of Bowie’s death is a video screen with Bowie’s picture in the lobby. The musical is a sequel to “The Man Who Fell To Earth” and features some of Bowie’s greatest hits.
David Bowie Producer Tony Visconti Plays In Bowie’s Honor
TORONTO (AP) — David Bowie’s longtime producer says the best way to work through grief is through music. Tony Visconti and his band, Holy Holy, played a Bowie tribute show for about 900 people in Toronto on Monday. It was part of a scheduled tour but sold out after Bowie’s death on Sunday. Among the albums Visconti produced were Bowie’s 1969 album “Space Oddity” and his last one, “Lazarus.” Visconti says Bowie’s songs are “some of the best music that’s ever been written.”
David Bowie Was In Talks For “Guardian’s of the Galaxy 2” Cameo
UNDATED (AP) — The writer and director of the movie “Guardians of the Galaxy” had wanted David Bowie to do a cameo in the sequel, and Bowie was open to the idea. James Gunn writes on Facebook he heard from mutual friends that Bowie wasn’t doing well, then heard back Bowie was OK and the cameo could potentially happen. Bowie’s song “Moonage Daydream” was on the best-selling soundtrack of the first movie, and Gunn says he’s trying to work another Bowie song into the sequel. He says it seems appropriate for Bowie to be the only artist with songs on both soundtracks.
Grammys Will Grant Lifetime Achievement To EWF, Run-DMC, Jefferson Airplane
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Earth, Wind and Fire, Run-DMC and Jefferson Airplane have never won Grammys. The Recording Academy is going to correct that. Those three acts are among those who will receive lifetime achievement awards from the Recording Academy in a special ceremony and concert this spring. Other lifetime achievement recipients will be Celia Cruz, Ruth Brown, Herbie Hancock and Linda Ronstadt.
Graham Nash Will Get NAMM Award
NEW YORK (AP) — Graham Nash recalls listening to Radio Luxembourg as a child and realizing he wanted to be a musician. Nash says he’d listen to the American top 40 countdown at the end of World War II on Radio Luxembourg. He grew up to be a musician and to be a benefactor for other budding musicians by supporting charities that give instruments to children in need. The National Association of Music Merchants will give Nash its Music For Life Award next week in Anaheim, California. Nash says he never got into music for the awards, and it’s very kind of NAMM to recognize the importance of music.
Graham Nash Explains National Christmas Tree Show Problems
NEW YORK (AP) — Graham Nash blames bad colors for Crosby, Stills and Nash’s off-key performance during the National Christmas Tree lighting in Washington last month. Nash says all the musicians involved in the show used color-coded microphones in sound check, but the microphones were mixed up when it came time for the show. Nash says the technicians at the sound board couldn’t figure out who had which microphone, and the members of CSN couldn’t hear each other. Nash says CSN weren’t at their best anyway. He says the producers of the show apologized to them, and “if we did one lousy show in our lives, so be it.”
Brit Awards Prepare David Bowie Tribute
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s biggest music awards show is planning to pay respects to David Bowie. Max Lousada of the Brit Awards says Bowie was “a visionary and ground-breaking pioneer” and the show will put on a fitting tribute at the February 24 show in London. Bowie had his moments at the Brit Awards. When he won best male artist in 2014, he sent supermodel Kate Moss dressed as Ziggy Stardust to accept the award.
“Let’s Dance” Pub in Australia Sees Boom in Business Since David Bowie’s Death
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Among the people around the world paying tribute to David Bowie are the drinkers at a pub in the Australian Outback in a town of fewer than 200 people — but they have a special connection to him. The only pub in the town of Carinda, a 400-mile drive from Sydney in New South Wales, was the setting for Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” video in 1983. The pub’s current owner, Malcolm George, says no one knew Bowie was coming that day. He says business has been nonstop since Bowie died on Sunday. Bartender Marie Draper says tourists gravitate to the wall with the brown and green tiles where Bowie plays his guitar in the video. George says when he bought the bar, the tiles had fallen from the wall, so he stripped tiles from elsewhere to restore it.
David Bowie Sent a Message with “Blackstar”
LOS ANGELES (AP) — David Bowie wasn’t just creating new music with his “Blackstar” album. He was telling the world he was dying. Bowie released “Blackstar” on Friday, and he died Sunday. Most of his close musician friends did not know he was dealing with cancer for the past 18 months. The “Blackstar” album discusses life, death and the afterlife. The video for the single “Lazarus” shows Bowie in a hospital bed with his eyes bandaged, singing, “Look up here, I’m in heaven/I’ve got scars that can’t be seen.” Yesterday, “Blackstar” hit number-one on the U.S. iTunes albums chart. “Best of Bowie” was second and two other Bowie albums have reached the Top 10.
Nile Rodgers, Brian Eno Remember David Bowie
NEW YORK (AP) — Even frequent David Bowie collaborators Nile Rodgers and Brian Eno had no idea he was sick. Rodgers says he suspected something was up with Bowie a few years ago when Bowie presented Rodgers with an award but had to give it by film. Rodgers says Bowie was charming and big-hearted but Rodgers could see he was not well. Rodgers says he didn’t want to pry because everyone deals with their health in their own way. Eno tells Rolling Stone magazine Bowie sent him an email just a week ago that was full of inside jokes. He says it ended with Bowie saying, “Thank you for our good times, Brian. They will never rot.” Eno says he realizes now Bowie was saying goodbye.
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