Lady Gaga's Grammys tribute to David Bowie didn't go down well with many (his son included) and it turns out that former Spiders from Mars drummer Mick Woodmansey was also not a fan. Very much not a fan.
In an interview with NME, Woodmansey reveals he and Bowie's longtime producer Tony Visconti were asked to take part in the tribute and they replied with a curt "No, fuck off".
"We were actually asked to do that, we were on tour at the time, they asked Tony and myself would we do it, and we looked at it and it was going to be like 14 or 15 songs in the space of four minutes, and we just went 'no, fuck off', that’s stupid, that’s not going to represent anything good about him,'” Woodmansey told NME. "I haven’t seen many things that do represent it properly. It’s nice that many want to do that, it’s a great thing, but quality wise, there hasn’t been many."
"It was just, 'why are you doing it?'", he added. "If there’s a genuine heartfelt thing that you wanna do out of respect, then you’d probably pull it off, but if there’s any other reason, it just gets tacky, and obviously you can’t stop that, they have a right to do it as they want to do it, but it doesn’t help a lot, it doesn’t do a lot."
Woodmansey made the comments as part of an interview about his time with Bowie called 'Spiders From Mars: My Life With David Bowie'.
Via NME