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Classic SNL Performers
Queen
No wonder Wayne and Garth were fans. Queen frontman Freddie Mercury had recently blown out his voice in a fight with his boyfriend, but he still managed to pull off “Under Pressure” and a show-stopping “Crazy Little Thing Called Love.” The band stopped touring four years later due to Mercury’s failing health, leaving SNL as Queen’s final U.S. performance with the legendary singer.
Tom Petty
For his fifth of eight SNL appearances, Petty was down a Heartbreaker, as he had recently fired drummer Stan Lynch. But he ended up with a pretty good replacement in the form of Dave Grohl, whose band Nirvana had met their tragic end just seven months earlier. Grohl brought headbanging thunder to “You Don’t Know How It Feels” and “Honey Bee.”
“I even discussed with Dave about joining the band,” said Petty. “And he wanted to, but he had his own solo thing developing at the time, the Foo Fighters. And, of course, he would rather have done that.”
Prince
A 22-year-old Prince exploded onto SNL with a high-octane performance of “Partyup,” bouncing, spinning, sliding, playing a wild guitar solo and then slamming down the mic and storming offstage. “I was blown away,” said producer Jean Doumanian. “He was just the most original act I had seen in a long time.” Unfortunately, Prince would be overshadowed by cast member Charles Rocket, who uttered his infamous on-air “f***” during this very episode.
Patty Smith Group
Only in the Seventies: On a night when Gerald Ford’s press secretary, Ron Nessen, hosted, Smith brought the punk scene brewing at CBGB to 30 Rock. Soon Gilda Radner would be spoofing Smith with her punk character Candy Slice. “My band thought it was hilarious,” said Smith.
Ray Charles
Host Ray Charles didn’t just demonstrate his deft comic chops alongside Dan Aykroyd’s Tom Snyder and the cast’s whitewashed singing troupe “the Young Caucasians”; he made the show his own. Joined by members of his Fifties horn section and his backup singers, the Raelettes, Charles did rollicking takes of “I Can See Clearly Now,” “What’d I Say” and “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning,” and led an end-of-show jam along with the cast as a joyous send-off.
LL Cool J
In 2013, Kenan Thompson parodied LL Cool J as “the most lowdown, hardcore cast member of NCIS.” That was sort of ironic, since his 1987 musical-guest appearance remains the greatest hip-hop moment in the history of the show; the 19-year-old LL stormed through his hard-hitting “Go Cut Creator Go,” backed by two DJs, Cut Creator and Bobcat, whose behind-the-back scratching wowed the studio audience.
The Replacements
The Minneapolis punk misfits manufactured a legendary feat of career suicide. After boozing it up backstage with host Harry Dean Stanton, they stumbled through “Bastards of Young,” then switched clothes before coming out to attempt “Kiss Me on the Bus,” during which frontman Paul Westerberg yelled “Come on, f***er” at guitarist Bob Stinson, who obliged by mooning the audience. The chaos led to the band receiving a lifetime ban from Lorne Michaels. “We were trying to do whatever possible to make sure that was a memorable evening,” Westerberg said.
The Rolling Stones
Riding the huge success of their blockbuster LP Some Girls, the Stones hosted the show and performed three of that album’s songs in one feverish 13-minute segment. Mick Jagger was in an especially playful mood, leaning over to lick guitarist Ron Wood. “I had my eyes closed for a few seconds and suddenly I felt this wet, warm thing slurping on my face,” said Wood. “It was Mick’s tongue. I tried to kick him, but he was too fast.”
Pearl Jam
A few months after Nirvana’s appearance, their Seattle peers brought their own vision of grunge to SNL, playing heroic versions of their hit single “Alive” and “Porch.” Eddie Vedder even got in an election-year dig by wearing a "No Bush ’92" T-shirt. “Me and a buddy went in one of the rooms and got loaded in honor of John Belushi,” said guitarist Mike McCready.
Nirvana
The week they knocked Michael Jackson from the top of the Billboard charts, Nirvana squalled through “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and the punk rant “Territorial Pissings,” complete with an instrument-trashing finale. During the closing credits, Kurt Cobain kissed his bandmates on the mouth “just to spite homophobes.” Said drummer Dave Grohl of playing SNL, “That’s when I knew it was nuts.”
Tina Turner
Introduced by host Alex Karras as “the First Lady of American popular music,” Turner performed a shimmying “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” a darkly dramatic “Private Dancer” and an explosive “Better Be Good to Me.” She even appeared in a skit as a
love interest of Martin Short’s giddy nerd Ed Grimley. “In a dress rehearsal for an Ed Grimley scene, Tina Turner’s top slipped, and she kind of flashed us,” Short recalled. “That was one of the great moments.”
Rage Against The Machine
Seconds before Rage blasted through “Bulls on Parade ” – the heaviest performance in the show’s history – a battle broke out between SNL stagehands and the RATM road crew over an upside-down American flag the band hung as a prop. “As soon as we’re offstage, the show’s producer, Marci Klein . . . informs our tour manager that there will be no second song,” said guitarist Tom Morello. “No cozy wave goodnight at the end, no hugging [host] Steve Forbes. It’s just, ‘Get out of the building right now.'”
The Band
Fellow Canadian Lorne Michaels wanted the Band on SNL in the run-up to their legendary farewell concert, the Last Waltz, and even offered them a hosting gig. “I told him we wouldn’t want to host the show,” recalled Robbie Robertson. “We weren’t really that funny.” Instead they became the first band to play four songs on SNL, closing with a rendition of “Georgia on My Mind.” “And a few days after that,” wrote drummer Levon Helm, “Jimmy Carter was elected president.”
Devo
In the Eighties, Devo would become MTV stars. But in 1978, they were still New Wave outliers from Akron, Ohio. Lorne Michaels got a look at their yellow jumpsuits and twitchy stage presence and decided their robotic cover of the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” was not ready for late night. Michaels only acquiesced when the band’s manager offered a future performance by his more famous client Neil Young as bait for booking Devo. “We went from playing in front of 200, 300 people a night to 3,000, 5,000 people a night,” said bassist Jerry Casale. “We had to stop the tour and rebook it after Saturday Night Live.”
David Bowie
Bowie was in his Berlin phase when he made this iconically weird SNL appearance, blending pop, punk, fashion and gender roles. He took the stage alongside unknown performance artists Joey Arias and Klaus Nomi, sang “TVC15” while wearing a dress and heels and walking a stuffed pink poodle, then put on a freaky headless marionette get-up for a rendition of “Boys Keep Swinging.” “We didn’t have to do anything but be ourselves that night,” says Arias, who did choreography and provided backup vocals alongside Nomi. “People still come up to me on tour and say, ‘You changed my life.'”
Elvis Costello
Costello was a 23-year-old punk upstart when he performed one of the most infamous acts of rebellion ever launched against a demanding record label. According to the singer, Columbia Records “insisted” he perform his understated new single “Less Than Zero” for his American debut. Instead, Costello played about 10 seconds of the song, screamed for his backing band the Attractions to stop, and burst into “Radio Radio,” a protest against sanitized media that hadn’t even been released yet. “The
confused and indignant faces behind the camera were the funniest things we’d seen all night,” Costello wrote in his memoir, “and we laughed all the way to the bar if not the bank.”
Neil Young
After nearly a decade of experimental music and commercial flatlining, Young came thrashing back with a kinetic, distortion-soaked performance of “Rockin’ in the Free World,” looking like a heavy-metal scarecrow and setting the stage for a career rebirth. “I had my trainer, and we just lifted weights and I did calisthenics [in my dressing room] to get my blood to the level it would be at after performing for an hour and 25 minutes,” said Young.
U2
As part of the promotional blitzkrieg for How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, the band performed the soaring “Vertigo” and “Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own,” with Bono miming a head butt (or, as he called it, “a Glasgow kiss”) into the SNL camera. The real magic happened during the closing credits when the band completely broke from SNL tradition, performing its classic debut single, “I Will Follow,” as Bono wandered into the studio audience and embraced a tearful Amy Poehler. “My whole body blushed,” Poehler wrote, “and I almost died from excitement.”
Simon and Garfunkel
SNL‘s second episode featured a historic reunion, the first TV appearance by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel since their 1970 breakup, and the first time they had shared the same stage in three years. The duo’s performances of “The Boxer,” “Scarborough Fair” and their new single “My Little Town” were striking in their intimacy, at once raw, awkward and friendly. “So, you’ve come crawling back,” Simon taunted. In response, Garfunkel deadpanned: “It’s very nice of you to invite me on your show.”
Queen
No wonder Wayne and Garth were fans. Queen frontman Freddie Mercury had recently blown out his voice in a fight with his boyfriend, but he still managed to pull off “Under Pressure” and a show-stopping “Crazy Little Thing Called Love.” The band stopped touring four years later due to Mercury’s failing health, leaving SNL as Queen’s final U.S. performance with the legendary singer.
Tom Petty
For his fifth of eight SNL appearances, Petty was down a Heartbreaker, as he had recently fired drummer Stan Lynch. But he ended up with a pretty good replacement in the form of Dave Grohl, whose band Nirvana had met their tragic end just seven months earlier. Grohl brought headbanging thunder to “You Don’t Know How It Feels” and “Honey Bee.”
“I even discussed with Dave about joining the band,” said Petty. “And he wanted to, but he had his own solo thing developing at the time, the Foo Fighters. And, of course, he would rather have done that.”
Prince
A 22-year-old Prince exploded onto SNL with a high-octane performance of “Partyup,” bouncing, spinning, sliding, playing a wild guitar solo and then slamming down the mic and storming offstage. “I was blown away,” said producer Jean Doumanian. “He was just the most original act I had seen in a long time.” Unfortunately, Prince would be overshadowed by cast member Charles Rocket, who uttered his infamous on-air “f***” during this very episode.
Patty Smith Group
Only in the Seventies: On a night when Gerald Ford’s press secretary, Ron Nessen, hosted, Smith brought the punk scene brewing at CBGB to 30 Rock. Soon Gilda Radner would be spoofing Smith with her punk character Candy Slice. “My band thought it was hilarious,” said Smith.
Ray Charles
Host Ray Charles didn’t just demonstrate his deft comic chops alongside Dan Aykroyd’s Tom Snyder and the cast’s whitewashed singing troupe “the Young Caucasians”; he made the show his own. Joined by members of his Fifties horn section and his backup singers, the Raelettes, Charles did rollicking takes of “I Can See Clearly Now,” “What’d I Say” and “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning,” and led an end-of-show jam along with the cast as a joyous send-off.
LL Cool J
In 2013, Kenan Thompson parodied LL Cool J as “the most lowdown, hardcore cast member of NCIS.” That was sort of ironic, since his 1987 musical-guest appearance remains the greatest hip-hop moment in the history of the show; the 19-year-old LL stormed through his hard-hitting “Go Cut Creator Go,” backed by two DJs, Cut Creator and Bobcat, whose behind-the-back scratching wowed the studio audience.
The Replacements
The Minneapolis punk misfits manufactured a legendary feat of career suicide. After boozing it up backstage with host Harry Dean Stanton, they stumbled through “Bastards of Young,” then switched clothes before coming out to attempt “Kiss Me on the Bus,” during which frontman Paul Westerberg yelled “Come on, f***er” at guitarist Bob Stinson, who obliged by mooning the audience. The chaos led to the band receiving a lifetime ban from Lorne Michaels. “We were trying to do whatever possible to make sure that was a memorable evening,” Westerberg said.
The Rolling Stones
Riding the huge success of their blockbuster LP Some Girls, the Stones hosted the show and performed three of that album’s songs in one feverish 13-minute segment. Mick Jagger was in an especially playful mood, leaning over to lick guitarist Ron Wood. “I had my eyes closed for a few seconds and suddenly I felt this wet, warm thing slurping on my face,” said Wood. “It was Mick’s tongue. I tried to kick him, but he was too fast.”
Pearl Jam
A few months after Nirvana’s appearance, their Seattle peers brought their own vision of grunge to SNL, playing heroic versions of their hit single “Alive” and “Porch.” Eddie Vedder even got in an election-year dig by wearing a "No Bush ’92" T-shirt. “Me and a buddy went in one of the rooms and got loaded in honor of John Belushi,” said guitarist Mike McCready.
Nirvana
The week they knocked Michael Jackson from the top of the Billboard charts, Nirvana squalled through “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and the punk rant “Territorial Pissings,” complete with an instrument-trashing finale. During the closing credits, Kurt Cobain kissed his bandmates on the mouth “just to spite homophobes.” Said drummer Dave Grohl of playing SNL, “That’s when I knew it was nuts.”
Tina Turner
Introduced by host Alex Karras as “the First Lady of American popular music,” Turner performed a shimmying “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” a darkly dramatic “Private Dancer” and an explosive “Better Be Good to Me.” She even appeared in a skit as a
love interest of Martin Short’s giddy nerd Ed Grimley. “In a dress rehearsal for an Ed Grimley scene, Tina Turner’s top slipped, and she kind of flashed us,” Short recalled. “That was one of the great moments.”
Rage Against The Machine
Seconds before Rage blasted through “Bulls on Parade ” – the heaviest performance in the show’s history – a battle broke out between SNL stagehands and the RATM road crew over an upside-down American flag the band hung as a prop. “As soon as we’re offstage, the show’s producer, Marci Klein . . . informs our tour manager that there will be no second song,” said guitarist Tom Morello. “No cozy wave goodnight at the end, no hugging [host] Steve Forbes. It’s just, ‘Get out of the building right now.'”
The Band
Fellow Canadian Lorne Michaels wanted the Band on SNL in the run-up to their legendary farewell concert, the Last Waltz, and even offered them a hosting gig. “I told him we wouldn’t want to host the show,” recalled Robbie Robertson. “We weren’t really that funny.” Instead they became the first band to play four songs on SNL, closing with a rendition of “Georgia on My Mind.” “And a few days after that,” wrote drummer Levon Helm, “Jimmy Carter was elected president.”
Devo
In the Eighties, Devo would become MTV stars. But in 1978, they were still New Wave outliers from Akron, Ohio. Lorne Michaels got a look at their yellow jumpsuits and twitchy stage presence and decided their robotic cover of the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” was not ready for late night. Michaels only acquiesced when the band’s manager offered a future performance by his more famous client Neil Young as bait for booking Devo. “We went from playing in front of 200, 300 people a night to 3,000, 5,000 people a night,” said bassist Jerry Casale. “We had to stop the tour and rebook it after Saturday Night Live.”
David Bowie
Bowie was in his Berlin phase when he made this iconically weird SNL appearance, blending pop, punk, fashion and gender roles. He took the stage alongside unknown performance artists Joey Arias and Klaus Nomi, sang “TVC15” while wearing a dress and heels and walking a stuffed pink poodle, then put on a freaky headless marionette get-up for a rendition of “Boys Keep Swinging.” “We didn’t have to do anything but be ourselves that night,” says Arias, who did choreography and provided backup vocals alongside Nomi. “People still come up to me on tour and say, ‘You changed my life.'”
Elvis Costello
Costello was a 23-year-old punk upstart when he performed one of the most infamous acts of rebellion ever launched against a demanding record label. According to the singer, Columbia Records “insisted” he perform his understated new single “Less Than Zero” for his American debut. Instead, Costello played about 10 seconds of the song, screamed for his backing band the Attractions to stop, and burst into “Radio Radio,” a protest against sanitized media that hadn’t even been released yet. “The
confused and indignant faces behind the camera were the funniest things we’d seen all night,” Costello wrote in his memoir, “and we laughed all the way to the bar if not the bank.”
Neil Young
After nearly a decade of experimental music and commercial flatlining, Young came thrashing back with a kinetic, distortion-soaked performance of “Rockin’ in the Free World,” looking like a heavy-metal scarecrow and setting the stage for a career rebirth. “I had my trainer, and we just lifted weights and I did calisthenics [in my dressing room] to get my blood to the level it would be at after performing for an hour and 25 minutes,” said Young.
U2
As part of the promotional blitzkrieg for How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, the band performed the soaring “Vertigo” and “Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own,” with Bono miming a head butt (or, as he called it, “a Glasgow kiss”) into the SNL camera. The real magic happened during the closing credits when the band completely broke from SNL tradition, performing its classic debut single, “I Will Follow,” as Bono wandered into the studio audience and embraced a tearful Amy Poehler. “My whole body blushed,” Poehler wrote, “and I almost died from excitement.”
Simon and Garfunkel
SNL‘s second episode featured a historic reunion, the first TV appearance by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel since their 1970 breakup, and the first time they had shared the same stage in three years. The duo’s performances of “The Boxer,” “Scarborough Fair” and their new single “My Little Town” were striking in their intimacy, at once raw, awkward and friendly. “So, you’ve come crawling back,” Simon taunted. In response, Garfunkel deadpanned: “It’s very nice of you to invite me on your show.”
Classic SNL Performers
Queen
No wonder Wayne and Garth were fans. Queen frontman Freddie Mercury had recently blown out his voice in a fight with his boyfriend, but he still managed to pull off “Under Pressure” and a show-stopping “Crazy Little Thing Called Love.” The band stopped touring four years later due to Mercury’s failing health, leaving SNL as Queen’s final U.S. performance with the legendary singer.
Tom Petty
For his fifth of eight SNL appearances, Petty was down a Heartbreaker, as he had recently fired drummer Stan Lynch. But he ended up with a pretty good replacement in the form of Dave Grohl, whose band Nirvana had met their tragic end just seven months earlier. Grohl brought headbanging thunder to “You Don’t Know How It Feels” and “Honey Bee.”
“I even discussed with Dave about joining the band,” said Petty. “And he wanted to, but he had his own solo thing developing at the time, the Foo Fighters. And, of course, he would rather have done that.”
Prince
A 22-year-old Prince exploded onto SNL with a high-octane performance of “Partyup,” bouncing, spinning, sliding, playing a wild guitar solo and then slamming down the mic and storming offstage. “I was blown away,” said producer Jean Doumanian. “He was just the most original act I had seen in a long time.” Unfortunately, Prince would be overshadowed by cast member Charles Rocket, who uttered his infamous on-air “f***” during this very episode.
Patty Smith Group
Only in the Seventies: On a night when Gerald Ford’s press secretary, Ron Nessen, hosted, Smith brought the punk scene brewing at CBGB to 30 Rock. Soon Gilda Radner would be spoofing Smith with her punk character Candy Slice. “My band thought it was hilarious,” said Smith.
Ray Charles
Host Ray Charles didn’t just demonstrate his deft comic chops alongside Dan Aykroyd’s Tom Snyder and the cast’s whitewashed singing troupe “the Young Caucasians”; he made the show his own. Joined by members of his Fifties horn section and his backup singers, the Raelettes, Charles did rollicking takes of “I Can See Clearly Now,” “What’d I Say” and “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning,” and led an end-of-show jam along with the cast as a joyous send-off.
LL Cool J
In 2013, Kenan Thompson parodied LL Cool J as “the most lowdown, hardcore cast member of NCIS.” That was sort of ironic, since his 1987 musical-guest appearance remains the greatest hip-hop moment in the history of the show; the 19-year-old LL stormed through his hard-hitting “Go Cut Creator Go,” backed by two DJs, Cut Creator and Bobcat, whose behind-the-back scratching wowed the studio audience.
The Replacements
The Minneapolis punk misfits manufactured a legendary feat of career suicide. After boozing it up backstage with host Harry Dean Stanton, they stumbled through “Bastards of Young,” then switched clothes before coming out to attempt “Kiss Me on the Bus,” during which frontman Paul Westerberg yelled “Come on, f***er” at guitarist Bob Stinson, who obliged by mooning the audience. The chaos led to the band receiving a lifetime ban from Lorne Michaels. “We were trying to do whatever possible to make sure that was a memorable evening,” Westerberg said.
The Rolling Stones
Riding the huge success of their blockbuster LP Some Girls, the Stones hosted the show and performed three of that album’s songs in one feverish 13-minute segment. Mick Jagger was in an especially playful mood, leaning over to lick guitarist Ron Wood. “I had my eyes closed for a few seconds and suddenly I felt this wet, warm thing slurping on my face,” said Wood. “It was Mick’s tongue. I tried to kick him, but he was too fast.”
Pearl Jam
A few months after Nirvana’s appearance, their Seattle peers brought their own vision of grunge to SNL, playing heroic versions of their hit single “Alive” and “Porch.” Eddie Vedder even got in an election-year dig by wearing a "No Bush ’92" T-shirt. “Me and a buddy went in one of the rooms and got loaded in honor of John Belushi,” said guitarist Mike McCready.
Nirvana
The week they knocked Michael Jackson from the top of the Billboard charts, Nirvana squalled through “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and the punk rant “Territorial Pissings,” complete with an instrument-trashing finale. During the closing credits, Kurt Cobain kissed his bandmates on the mouth “just to spite homophobes.” Said drummer Dave Grohl of playing SNL, “That’s when I knew it was nuts.”
Tina Turner
Introduced by host Alex Karras as “the First Lady of American popular music,” Turner performed a shimmying “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” a darkly dramatic “Private Dancer” and an explosive “Better Be Good to Me.” She even appeared in a skit as a
love interest of Martin Short’s giddy nerd Ed Grimley. “In a dress rehearsal for an Ed Grimley scene, Tina Turner’s top slipped, and she kind of flashed us,” Short recalled. “That was one of the great moments.”
Rage Against The Machine
Seconds before Rage blasted through “Bulls on Parade ” – the heaviest performance in the show’s history – a battle broke out between SNL stagehands and the RATM road crew over an upside-down American flag the band hung as a prop. “As soon as we’re offstage, the show’s producer, Marci Klein . . . informs our tour manager that there will be no second song,” said guitarist Tom Morello. “No cozy wave goodnight at the end, no hugging [host] Steve Forbes. It’s just, ‘Get out of the building right now.'”
The Band
Fellow Canadian Lorne Michaels wanted the Band on SNL in the run-up to their legendary farewell concert, the Last Waltz, and even offered them a hosting gig. “I told him we wouldn’t want to host the show,” recalled Robbie Robertson. “We weren’t really that funny.” Instead they became the first band to play four songs on SNL, closing with a rendition of “Georgia on My Mind.” “And a few days after that,” wrote drummer Levon Helm, “Jimmy Carter was elected president.”
Devo
In the Eighties, Devo would become MTV stars. But in 1978, they were still New Wave outliers from Akron, Ohio. Lorne Michaels got a look at their yellow jumpsuits and twitchy stage presence and decided their robotic cover of the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” was not ready for late night. Michaels only acquiesced when the band’s manager offered a future performance by his more famous client Neil Young as bait for booking Devo. “We went from playing in front of 200, 300 people a night to 3,000, 5,000 people a night,” said bassist Jerry Casale. “We had to stop the tour and rebook it after Saturday Night Live.”
David Bowie
Bowie was in his Berlin phase when he made this iconically weird SNL appearance, blending pop, punk, fashion and gender roles. He took the stage alongside unknown performance artists Joey Arias and Klaus Nomi, sang “TVC15” while wearing a dress and heels and walking a stuffed pink poodle, then put on a freaky headless marionette get-up for a rendition of “Boys Keep Swinging.” “We didn’t have to do anything but be ourselves that night,” says Arias, who did choreography and provided backup vocals alongside Nomi. “People still come up to me on tour and say, ‘You changed my life.'”
Elvis Costello
Costello was a 23-year-old punk upstart when he performed one of the most infamous acts of rebellion ever launched against a demanding record label. According to the singer, Columbia Records “insisted” he perform his understated new single “Less Than Zero” for his American debut. Instead, Costello played about 10 seconds of the song, screamed for his backing band the Attractions to stop, and burst into “Radio Radio,” a protest against sanitized media that hadn’t even been released yet. “The
confused and indignant faces behind the camera were the funniest things we’d seen all night,” Costello wrote in his memoir, “and we laughed all the way to the bar if not the bank.”
Neil Young
After nearly a decade of experimental music and commercial flatlining, Young came thrashing back with a kinetic, distortion-soaked performance of “Rockin’ in the Free World,” looking like a heavy-metal scarecrow and setting the stage for a career rebirth. “I had my trainer, and we just lifted weights and I did calisthenics [in my dressing room] to get my blood to the level it would be at after performing for an hour and 25 minutes,” said Young.
U2
As part of the promotional blitzkrieg for How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, the band performed the soaring “Vertigo” and “Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own,” with Bono miming a head butt (or, as he called it, “a Glasgow kiss”) into the SNL camera. The real magic happened during the closing credits when the band completely broke from SNL tradition, performing its classic debut single, “I Will Follow,” as Bono wandered into the studio audience and embraced a tearful Amy Poehler. “My whole body blushed,” Poehler wrote, “and I almost died from excitement.”
Simon and Garfunkel
SNL‘s second episode featured a historic reunion, the first TV appearance by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel since their 1970 breakup, and the first time they had shared the same stage in three years. The duo’s performances of “The Boxer,” “Scarborough Fair” and their new single “My Little Town” were striking in their intimacy, at once raw, awkward and friendly. “So, you’ve come crawling back,” Simon taunted. In response, Garfunkel deadpanned: “It’s very nice of you to invite me on your show.”
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