David Bowie eats Kanye for breakfast (Picture: Getty / Myles Goode)

Thousands of people are signing a petition to see Kanye West’s David Bowie covers album stopped in its tracks.

After expressing sadness at the icon’s death, the rapper announced he intends to head into the studio to continue Bowie’s work – but the new petition has claimed it will be a ‘sacrilege’.

Entitled ‘Stop Kanye West recording covers of David Bowie’s music’, the campaign has struck a chord with those of a certain musical inclination.

The petition was created by Peter Pirahna and the description reads: ‘David Bowie was one of the single most important musicians of the 20th and 21st century, it would be a sacrilege to let it be ruined by Kanye West.’


Kanye wants to pay tribute to David Bowie (Picture: WireImage)

It’s addressed to Kanye West himself, presumably to get him to reflect on the negative impact of his music.



To give you a flavour of a typical cover by Kanye, here’s his performance of Bohemian Rhapsody at Glasto last year. He forgot the words.

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The day-old petition has 1,659 signatures at the time of writing.

Let’s hope Kanye doesn’t plan on giving Bowie a ring at 3am because he ain’t picking up.

I have no interest in working with anyone who is too important or too good or too traditional to take a call at 3am — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 10, 2016

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