Watch Yungblud, Billy Corgan and others honoring David Bowie during the live event

Watch Yungblud, Billy Corgan and others honoring David Bowie during the live event

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Yungblud, Billy Corgan and several other musicians paid tribute to David Bowie this weekend during a virtual event before the fifth anniversary of the death of the rock legend.

  • READ MORE: An oral history of David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ – five years after his death

Last night (January 9), pianist Mike Garson held a live event called A Bowie celebration: just for one day featuring a variety of artists in honor of the late musician, who died five years ago today (January 10).

People like Trent Reznor, Perry Farrell, Adam Lambert, Peter Frampton, Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, Anna Calvi and Duran Duran also participated in the live broadcast event – which originally was supposed to take place on Bowie’s birthday (January 8), but was postponed for a day after some logistical problems.

Yungblud, who shared his performance on Twitter, covered Bowie’s ‘Life On Mars’, which was first released on the 1971 ‘Hunky Dory’ album.

“It is rare in this life that you find someone who has shaped your entire existence,” he captioned in his tweet. “I felt like I was on a different planet last night. he was there and I was with him. it was really one of the best moments of my life. thanks for everything starman. “

Corgan popped his cover of ‘Space Oddity’ for the show, which he played a few times over the years – you can watch the Smashing Pumpkins frontman’s presentation below.

See other tribute performances by Adam Lambert, who sang ‘Starman’ at the event led by Mike Garson, Duran Duran (‘Five years’) and Boy George (‘Lady Grinning Soul’) below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i0DBzaMNeU

Elsewhere during the event, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor presented a pair of Bowie covers: ‘Fantastic Voyage’ and ‘Fashion’.

On Friday (January 8), one of Bowie’s last collaborators dismissed the idea that ‘Blackstar’ intended to be the singer’s farewell record.

Bowie’s latest album was released just two days before he died of cancer in January 2016 – with many claiming that his lyrics can be interpreted as the singer dealing with his own mortality.

However, Donny McCaslin – who heads the New York jazz ensemble featured on the album – instead claims that Bowie was planning more work before his death.

“There is the narrative of ‘Blackstar’ being this farewell, which I totally understand. But it coexists with the fact that he was so creative. He was planning to do more, ”he said. NME for a new oral history to mark five years of registration.

Meanwhile, David Bowie’s unpublished covers of John Lennon’s’ Mother ‘and Bob Dylan’s’ Tryin’ to Get to Heaven ‘were released for the first time, to mark what would have been the music icon’s 74th birthday.

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