WATCH: Video: Lady Gaga pays tribute to David Bowie at Grammys
(Reuters) — Lady Gaga paid a psychedelic tribute on the Grammys stage on Monday (February 15, 16 PHT) to the late British rock visionary David Bowie with a multimedia song-and-dance performance that sought to capture the boundary-pushing essence of a kindred pop music spirit.
Bowie, a forerunner of Gaga’s brand of provocative, gender-bending performance imagery, died of cancer at age 69 on January 10, just two days after the release of what became his critically acclaimed final studio album, Blackstar.
Gaga, 29, a six-time Grammy laureate who, like Bowie, is known for frequent self-reinvention, arrived on the red carpet dressed in an outfit that channeled Bowie’s signature androgynous look, sporting a bright, blue embellished jacket-dress, and bright orange hair.
On stage she charted Bowie’s half-century career with a medley touching on 10 of his hits: “Space Oddity,” “Changes,” “Ziggy Stardust,” “Suffragette City,” “Rebel Rebel,” “Fashion,” “Fame,” “Under Pressure,” “Let’s Dance,” and “Heroes.”
The song-dance number was punctuated by a torrent of flashing multi-colored lights and images projected on a large screen behind her, including a closeup of her face adorned in Aladdin Sane makeup — a nod to one of Bowie’s personas — with a spider crawling over her nose.
