Watch Slipknot/Stone Sour's Corey Taylor cover David Bowie at tribute show
Last night (Jan. 25), Corey Taylor (Slipknot/Stone Sour) joined the likes of Sting, Bernard Fowler (Rolling Stones), Gavin Rossdale (Bush), Joe Elliott (Def Leppard), Ian Astbury (The Cult) for the Los Angeles stop of the Celebrating David Bowie tour, (via LA Weekly).
Taylor took to the stage for a cover of Bowie's “China Girl.”
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Bowie's former bandmates and guest singers constitute the Celebrating David Bowie tour, which has already hit London and New York and is slated to hit Sydney Opera House on Jan. 29 and Jan. 30. Official merchandise to support the tour can be found here.
Proud to have been involved with this! https://t.co/4BAzZAwq2A
— Jack Asteroid, P.I. (@CoreyTaylorRock) January 26, 2017
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On Jan. 8, a new EP and video were released to commemorate what would have been Bowie's 70th birthday. Bowie died almost exactly a year before—Jan. 10, 2016—after a long battle with cancer.
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