Last month, Arcade Fire and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band paid tribute to David Bowie with a parade through the streets of New Orleans. The official Facebook page for the event—which was called “Pretty Things” (for the Hunky Dory track “Oh! You Pretty Things”)–instructed attendees to wear their “best Bowie outfit or something more strange.” Today, the band have shared a short documentary about the parade. The video includes Win Butler leading the crowd in Bowie’s “Heroes.” Watch it below. Update (2/10, 7:02 p.m.): Arcade Fire tweeted their thanks to the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the city of New Orleans. Check it out below.
Upon Bowie’s passing in January, Butler wrote: “I will take to the grave the moments we shared; talking, playing music and collaborating as some of the most profound and memorable moments of my life.”
Read our “Afterword” feature on Bowie, plus tributes from Nile Rodgers, Bradford Cox, Carlos Dengler, Thurston Moore, Carlos Alomar, and Jonathan Lethem.
Thanks to the Preservation Hall & the city of New Orleans. We hope David could hear the noise and feel the deep love https://t.co/Lj4yGfIg2X
— Arcade Fire (@arcadefire) February 10, 2016
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