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Big snip the article has a few more paragraphs. I'd have to agree, Gaga's performance was frenetic and unfocused. It was more about Gaga impersonating Bowie than paying tribute to a great musician.
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David Bowie‘s former drummer from Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars has hit out at Lady Gaga‘s tribute to the late ‘Starman’ icon at the GRAMMY Awards, slamming it as ‘tacky’.

The ‘Joanne’ and ‘Perfect Illusion’ star performed a tribute perfo...MMY Awards. Joined by Nile Rodgers, she ran through a medley of hits by the Thin White Duke – before his son, acclaimed director Duncan Jones, slammed it as ‘overexcited, irrational and mentally confused’.

Mick ‘Woody’ Woodmansey played with Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars from 1970-1973. Now, he too has shared his thoughts on the performance. Having spent recent years touring a tribute show to Bowie’s ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ and other classics with producer Tony Visconti, in a show approved by the late ‘Blackstar’ icon, he also revealed that and Visconti turned down the opportunity to appear with Gaga.

“We were actually asked to do that, we were on tour at the time, they asked Tony and myself would we do it, and we looked at it and it was going to be like 14 or 15 songs in the space of four minutes, and we just went ‘no, fuck off”, that’s stupid, that’s not going to represent anything good about him,'” Woodmansey told NME. “I haven’t seen many things that do represent it properly. It’s nice that many want to do that, it’s a great thing, but quality wise, there hasn’t been many.”

He added: “It was just, ‘why are you doing it?’ If there’s a genuine heartfelt thing that you wanna do out of respect, then you’d probably pull it off, but if there’s any other reason, it just gets tacky, and obviously you can’t stop that, they have a right to do it as they want to do it, but it doesn’t help a lot, it doesn’t do a lot.”

Perhaps I am in the minority, but I thought Lady Gaga did a really good job. Of course no one could ever fill David Bowie's shoes, just like no one can fill Prince's, but it is very hard for some artists to try and re-capture their legend when doing these tributes, since they were so unique. It is an extremely tough task, but I still give them props for trying though.

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I'm not a Gaga fan and I didn't really care for her tribute, but I don't think he's right to question her motives. If he doesn't know her personally, how does he know she wasn't affected by David's music like a lot of other people?

I think you can genuinely be affected by someone's music and do it from the heart, yet it not work musically. So just because you may not have cared for her tribute, doesn't mean she had bad motives in doing it.

I wonder in the future when someone important dies, if anyone will be willing to do tributes, given the vitrol that has been poured out against Gaga for her Bowie tribute and Madonna for her Prince tribute.

Doing a tribute should not be about actually replacing the person which can never be done, but acknnowledging their passing and remembering their music.

So I'm not sure why people hold these people who do tributes to such impossible standards.

I think it should be the thought that counts.

I liked it and thought she did a great job...in essecnce...I dont see any other persons doing it like she did so they can sit their tired behinds down somewhere