Former David Bowie collaborators Nile Rodgers and Omar Hakim led a star-studded Bowie mini-set in the course of the Taylor Hawkins tribute live performance on Saturday at London’s Wembley Stadium.
After an intro from comic Dave Chappelle, the makeshift band — additionally that includes bassist Chris Chaney, of Jane’s Dependancy and Hawkins’ NHC — opened with a rendition of Bowie’s “Let’s Dance.” Queens of the Stone Age and Them Crooked Vultures frontman Josh Homme led the group, delivering a vocal efficiency that was startlingly trustworthy to the unique.
Homme ceded the microphone to Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes for the band’s second and last tune, “Trendy Love.” Each songs appeared on Bowie’s 1983 album Let’s Dance, which Rodgers co-produced and on which Hakim drummed.
Earlier than they started taking part in, Rodgers defined that Stylish additionally carried out at Estereo Picnic in Bogota, Colombia, the pageant Foo Fighters have been set to headline on the evening Hawkins was discovered lifeless in his resort room at age 50. Rodgers mentioned Stylish and Foo Fighters have been speculated to carry out collectively, however the bandleader requested if they may postpone the team-up till Milan “as a result of we gotta rise up at like 2 within the morning, and also you guys are happening at midnight.
“However Dave [Grohl] wasn’t having it,” Rodgers continued. “He referred to as me and he says, ‘Nile, I used to be placing on a swimsuit in order that I may appear to be Stylish and benefit from the present.'”
Rodgers completed his story with a short mission assertion: “Properly, if you realize something about Stylish, we play dance music!”
The Wembley Stadium is the primary of two star-studded Hawkins tribute concert events. The second will happen on Sept. 27 at Los Angeles’ Kia Discussion board.
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