NEW YORK (AP) – Jakob Dylan, Michael Stipe, the Flaming Lips and Pixies are among the artists honoring David Bowie Thursday at a Carnegie Hall tribute concert that turned into a memorial through some bizarre timing.
Organizers of a benefit for music education that each year focuses on the work of a particular artist had decided last fall that Bowie would be featured. They publicly announced it in January – just hours before Bowie’s family said the rock star had died on Jan. 10.
The concert sold out in two hours, demand so fierce that a second show was added for Friday at Radio City Music Hall.
Bob Dylan, Prince, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen and David Byrne are among the artists whose work has been featured in the annual benefit, in its 13th year. Springsteen and Byrne performed themselves at their own tributes.
After Bowie died, so many artists who were invited to perform said they wanted to do it that organizers didn’t have enough room and had to turn some away, said Michael Dorf, who produces the show.