This year’s Grammys, airing Monday evening on CBS, may be the most tribute-heavy in the awards’ 58-year history, with segments dedicated to the late B.B. King, Natalie Cole, the Eagles’ Glenn Frey, Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, Earth, Wind & Fire’s Maurice White, and of course, David Bowie. Five of these legends died in just the past month and a half. And while longtime Grammy Awards producer executive Ken Ehrlich is no stranger to last-minute memorials (as evidenced by the tasteful retooling of 2012’s ceremony after Whitney Houston died the night before), he tells Yahoo Music that “honestly, 75 or 80 percent of this [year’s] show was laid out as of Jan. 1” – the day Cole’s death was announced – “so it slowed us down. All of these passings, with the exception of B.B., happened within the last month or so. And I worked with all these people; I knew all of them. It’s more personal to me than anything else, so I almost have even more of a stake in it.”
“That’s a very legitimate question,” Ehrlich admits. Says Rodgers: “We called everybody! I could show you all my emails! I think in Iggy’s case, he just wasn’t available. People didn’t know that we were going to do a Bowie tribute at the Grammys, so what happened was, actually it was Gaga’s idea: She had me reach out to, say, 15 different people. Everybody was available, but by the time we linked up, Iggy wasn’t available, and to me that was important [to include him]. But when you see this [Gaga performance], you’ll get it. It will make sense.”
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