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Lady Gaga on Bowie tribute:
Most difficult thing I’ve done
MESFIN FEKADU hung out with people that of them are really cov- Nile Rodgers, left, and Lady Gaga perform a tribute to David
AP Music Writer were artists and that was ered, and I always thought Bowie at the 58th annual Grammy Awards on Monday, Feb. 15,
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lady the way that he was and it was so badass the way 2016, in Los Angeles.
Gaga says paying tribute I learned that from him,” that they were so commit-
to the late David Bowie at she said. “What I’m trying ted to my music,” she said. Associated Press
the Grammys is probably to say is there’s people “I have a lot of ink already
the most challenging thing that love David Bowie, and on my body, different effects, including anima- ested in innovation.”
she’s done in career be- then there’s David Bowie sort of artistic prayers and tion of a spider crawling on “(I’m) trying to always take
cause the icon influenced fans, and there’s Bowie thoughts and things that her face. She called Intel things to places that no
her greatly and helped kids, who live like him ...and mean something to me, “fabulous partners for me one’s ever taken them be-
shape her identity. I can’t express to you, I but I always wanted to get because we’re both inter- fore,” she said.q
Gaga performed an ex- don’t know who I’d be if I a tattoo of somebody that
tended tribute to Bowie at didn’t have (him as) a fig- changed my life. And he
the Staples Center in Los ure in my life. I don’t know really did.”
Angeles on Monday, chan- what my identity would Her Grammy performance
neling the legend as Ziggy be.” was a collaboration with
Stardust as she ran through Bowie died of cancer at Intel technologists and
his hits, including “Space age 69 on Jan. 10. Gaga included lighting, audio
Oddity,” ‘’Let’s Dance,” said she never met Bowie, and projection systems to
‘’Changes” and “Heroes.” but that they “were pen match with Gaga’s perfor-
Days before the perfor- pals.” mance to pay homage to
mance, she said in an inter- The pop star was already Bowie. The performance
view with The Associated set to perform at the Gram- was highlighted by visual
Press that performing in his mys, but asked to sing in
honor was a bittersweet tribute of Bowie after he
way to say goodbye to died. And days before the
one of her inspirations. Grammys, she got a large
“When I was 19 years old ... tattoo of Bowie’s face on
I started to live my life like the side of her body.
him. I began to consume “I’ve been wanting to get
art and fashion and art his- one for a long time. I was
tory and a combination of thinking about how there’s
those things, performance a lot of my fans that have
technique ... and I only Lady Gaga tattoos, some
Review: Thriller by ex-CIA man
is full of action and twists
ANDREW SELSKY from household items, us-
Associated Press ing it to destroy a building.
Russia’s intelligence agen- Do not try this at home.
cy has learned the iden- CIA officer Kyra Stryker, an
tities of all the CIA case action-hero name if there
officers in Moscow and, ever was one, tries to save
even worse, most if not all the day after one of her for-
of the CIA’s spies in Russia. mer bosses, Alden Maines,
If you’re caught as a spy decides to start selling the
in Russia, execution usually agency’s secrets to the
follows. This potential de- Russians. She encounters
bacle is envisioned in Mark him in Berlin and gets the
Henshaw’s new novel, “The chance to beat him up, an
Fall of Moscow Station,” a opportunity she takes full
thriller that deftly describes advantage of. Then it’s off
the wilderness of mirrors to Moscow for her, under
that is the world of spying, the radar.
with intelligence agencies Opposing her is a Russian
second-guessing their op- intelligence chief, Arkady
ponents’ actions and mo- Lavrov, who is also selling
tives while constantly trying weapons on the sly to other
to trick each other. countries. He also longs for
Henshaw, a former CIA an- the era when there were
alyst, also salts his book with two superpowers, telling
examples of tradecraft Stryker that back then the
practiced by case officers main enemy was clearly
to keep themselves and, defined and the world was
more importantly, the spies more stable because of it,
they are handling safe. with countries falling in line
Readers get to see the with either Washington or
protagonist make napalm Moscow. q
