11/2/2009
Once-in-a-lifetime team-ups were in abundance once again on Friday (October 20th) at Madison Square Garden for the second and final night of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 25th Anniversary concerts. Headlining night two of the Anniversary shows were U2, Metallica, Aretha Franklin, Jeff Beck, Ozzy Osbourne, Lou Reed, and Ray Davies.
Among the special unannounced guests were Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Gibbons, Patti Smith, and the Black Eyed Peas.
Performer highlights included:
Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox trading vocals on "Chain Of Fools," Franklin performing "New York, New York," and "Think" with Lenny Kravitz.
Jeff Beck, who was sitting in for an ailing Eric Clapton, performing the Beatles' "A Day In The Life," the Impressions' "People Get Ready" with Sting, and "Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady" with Billy Gibbons.
Alongside their own songs, Metallica played house band for such legends as Lou Reed, backing him on the Velvet Underground classics "Sweet Jane" and "White Light/White Heat," Ozzy Osbourne on Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" and "Paranoid," along with Ray Davies on the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" and "All Day And All Of The Night."
U2 teaming up with Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith for their "Because The Night," Springsteen for "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," "Where Is The Love" with the Black Eyed Peas, "Gimme Shelter" with Mick Jagger and Fergie, with Jagger duetting with Bono on "Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of."
The evening's full setlist:
Introduction -- Tom Hanks
"Great Balls Of Fire" -- Jerry Lee Lewis
"Baby I Love You" -- Aretha Franklin
"Chain Of Fools" -- Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox
"New York, New York" -- Aretha Franklin
"Think" -- Aretha Franklin and Lenny Kravitz
"Respect" -- Aretha Franklin
"Drown In My Own Tears" -- Jeff Beck
"People Get Ready" -- Jeff Beck and Sting
"Let Me Love You Baby" -- Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy
"Foxy Lady" -- Jeff Beck and Billy Gibbons
"A Day In The Life" -- Jeff Beck
"For Whom The Bell Tolls" -- Metallica
"One" -- Metallica
"Turn The Page" -- Metallica
"Sweet Jane" -- Metallica and Lou Reed
"White Light/White Heat" -- Metallica and Lou Reed
"Iron Man" -- Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne
"Paranoid" -- Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne
"You Really Got Me" -- Metallica and Ray Davies
"All Day And All Of The Night" -- Metallica and Ray Davies
"Stone Cold Crazy" -- Metallica
"Enter Sandman" -- Metallica
"Vertigo" -- U2
"Magnificent" -- U2
"Because The Night" -- Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith and U2
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" -- U2 and Bruce Springsteen
"Mysterious Ways" -- U2
"Where Ts The Love" -- U2 and Black Eyed Peas
"Gimme Shelter" -- U2 with Mick Jagger and Fergie
"Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of" -- U2 and Mick Jagger
"Beautiful Day" -- U2
Mick Jagger says that even after all these years performing live, he faces an element of the unknown every time he hits the stage: "You never really know what's gonna happen. You never know what the audience is gonna be like, you never know how they're gonna behave, you, you expect them to do certain things, but they don't always do that, and you don't always do the same things that you've done the night before. That's what brings you into live playing, what makes live playing so interesting."
Highlights of both night's Madison Square Garden concerts will be part of an HBO four-hour broadcast on November 29th at 8 p.m.
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