"Classic Show Biz" In Rock

[filkertom]

In the previous thread, tomreedtoon mentions that he doesn't listen to "most serious pop music", and laments what he perceives as a lack of "classic show biz in the rock world".

Now, I am not in any way jumping on him. I think he's missed out, and I'd like to help. I think it'd be fun to not only show him that there is indeed such a thing as "classic show biz in the rock world", but also to introduce him to some of the truly great rock performances available online.

(I think this may be the Bowie-Turner performance he refers to.)

Since this is kinda show-biz-zy, let's try to stick to videos. Although there are forty-nine-thousand buttloads of great audio performances online, especially at places like The Internet Archive.

My first three choices, off the top of my head, would be these:
Meat Loaf - "I Would Do Anything For Love"

Annie Lennox - "Sweet Dreams" at Live 8 (cadhla, vixyish, tfabris, Ookla, we have fucking got to cover this at OVFF)

Billy Joel and Elton John - "Piano Man"

Link us up to some of yours!

Comments

[ericcoleman]

Jagger in his prime was a better performer, but didn't have the voice (still, neither did Freddie live a lot of the time). I would put Angelo Moore from Fishbone up there as damn close to equal with Freddie in both voice and performance. Bono is certainly up there as well and is probably the greatest living frontman for any rock band.