Fergie sharing a stage with Mick Jagger. Metallica meets Lou Reed. This actually happened.
On October 29th and 30th, 2009, rock 'n' roll royalty held court at Madison Square Garden for what have been called 'the best concerts ever,' and 'where rock 'n' roll history was made.' The concerts featured a who's who of rock 'n' roll from the '50s to the '90s and included artists performing together in unprecedented combinations that will most likely never be witnessed again. 'The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Anniversary Concerts' included sets by Crosby, Stills & Nash; Stevie Wonder; Paul Simon; Simon & Garfunkel; Aretha Franklin; Metallica; U2; Jeff Beck and Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band. Joining this iconic line up on stage were special guests including: Jerry Lee Lewis, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Smokey Robinson, B.B. King, Annie Lennox, Lou Reed, John Fogerty, Mick Jagger, Fergie and others. A 4-hour special of the concerts aired on HBO to high ratings, and was seen by tens of millions. Now this historic event is available on DVD.
Direction
Gallen captures impossible moments without getting in the way
Sound
Mixing legends from five decades without disaster
Production
Staging that lets egos coexist—barely
Director
Joel Gallen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Simon & Garfunkel's first performance together in over a decade, and tensions were so thick that Paul Simon later said they barely spoke offstage.
The 2009 concerts marked one of the last major gatherings of first-generation rock pioneers before deaths of B.B. King, Lou Reed, and others shifted the Hall into memorial territory.
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