TORONTO – A David Bowie tribute band featuring two longtime collaborators has declared “the show must go on” and will play a Toronto gig Tuesday night, just two days after the iconic singer’s death.
Producer Tony Visconti and drummer Mick (Woody) Woodmansey, who worked with Bowie on some of his seminal work, including Space Oddity and Aladdin Sane, confirmed Monday that their outfit Holy Holy will continue its North American tour with a tribute show at Toronto’s Opera House.
“David always had the attitude that ‘the show must go on,” Woodmansey wrote on the band’s Facebook page. “So we want the fans to help us celebrate his life and music, that’s what he would have wanted.”
Holy Holy – named for an early Bowie track – plays only “early Bowie,” and Tuesday’s show is billed as a full rendition of the 1970 album The Man Who Sold the World.
The band played in New York City on Friday, which was also Bowie’s 69th birthday.
The British singer died Sunday, also just days after releasing his album Blackstar.
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Woodmansey said the band was in Toronto when he got word of Bowie’s death.
“It’s a huge personal loss, as I know it is for millions of fans worldwide,” he said on Facebook. “We’ve lost one of the world’s greatest artists, my thoughts are with his family at this time.”
Woodmansey worked with Bowie for a brief period in the 1970s, including the albums Hunky Dory and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
Visconti both played on and produced a plethora of Bowie’s albums, including Space Oddity, Young Americans and Blackstar.
Woodmansey founded Holy Holy in 2013.
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