Greatest ever live performances

Beautiful- Thanks

Lavadis, great tune I agree, But not my favourite Mary J track. "I'm Goin Down" does it for me.

Thanks for that, Lavadis. Great performance, as you say. Haven't heard Mary J in a long time, for some reason.

Here's a couple from different parts of the musical spectrum... but, for me, they're both fantastic in their individual ways.

Prologue/Crunchy Granola from Hot August Night. Neil Diamond at his young finest... and a crescendo that, even now, makes me shiver. Shame there's no vid to go with it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OkWSaxEEVk

...and Queens of the Stone Age at Reading in 2005 - No One Knows...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haWVIaslEOs

Stan, your pulling them out of the bag now! If you want a fantastic live performance have a look at this. Stevie Wonder doing Superstition. Funk/Soul at its finest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE

Great choices Jolono and Stan. There is one that absolutely kills me every single time I see it. I mean, no matter what kind of music you like, this, as they say, is the bomb.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjwNZ0qeQ-w

Agreed, and she's great to look at!

Yeah... they play that every day at the gym. It's one of the few stand-outs there, I can assure you!

Ok... sorry... a large bit of cheese here. These, for me, were the highlights from last year's Glastonbury. I know people are split over U2, for reasons we all know. But you have to hand it to the lads... they sure know how to do it. Incidentally, there are a lot of stories abounding about how Bono and Edge came to be named... but I know the truth. Edge was originally Hedge on account of his huge mop of hair... until he lost it, at which point he also lost the 'H'. Bono was always Boner, because of his predilection for tight trousers and the priapic impression they always created. When they got famous, though, their manager thought it was just too suggestive, and had it changed. True as I sit here...

Beautiful Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLX94r2ErN8

Vertigo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyHlLYwmLwY

Here's another Beautiful Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0J77CRMeTA

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Fine song, Andrea. I love the comment someone's posted with it: 'i was so much older then..im younger than that now.' Yeah.

Fine song indeed Andrea althoughthis, I think you will find was as cool as it gets U2wise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2BqLlVHlWA

... One of ... because they can still sing a story and hold an audience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVJK1Sl6My8

Long may they do it, too...

Well... this is live enough for me. Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi telling us what we all need...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHV0zs0kVGg

Loved it!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=fvwp&v=ekgIwhuPScg

Applause ...

Well... if we're on a Blues Brothers and animal kick, here's the world famous Frostie, folks...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bt9xBuGWgw

That is one rockin' bird!

Stan that might just be the best video clip of all time

I thought I'd seen some pretty good live performances until one night I stumbled across this and realised I hadn't seen a thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMzAmrNS164

I like this version by Bowie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uPZIG5BHD4&feature=related

Sadly the Amsterdam of yore is long gone...

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Grover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3T7M7YlTIs

Ahh Grover, my hero. Sadly missed!

RIP Etta.

She should've sung this at Obama's inauguration. Beyonce? Who the hell she?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwxM--iDH2c