The 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live is upon us, and we've already gotten a feature film about making the pilot (Jason Reitman's Saturday Night) and a new Questlove documentary about the show's musical history (Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music). And now two days before the upcoming SNL50 special is set to air, a massive companion concert has been announced with a towering lineup.
As reported by Variety, this is merely the list of performers announced so far: Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny, Miley Cyrus, Backstreet Boys, Post Malone, Jack White, David Byrne, Robyn, Eddie Vedder, DEVO, Brittany Howard, Chris Martin, Bonnie Raitt, Brandi Carlile, Jelly Roll, the B-52s, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and the Roots. That's at least three generations' entire adolescences represented right there, and allegedly there are still more artists to be announced. That's far more star-studded than the last couple of Coachella iterations.
Jimmy Fallon will be hosting, with creator Lorne Michaels and Mark Ronson serving as executive producers. They're calling this three-hour extravaganza the "Homecoming Concert," and it's all going down at Radio City Music Hall on Valentine's Day. Select IMAX theaters at Regal Cinemas will screen it for free and you'll be able to stream it on Peacock at 8pm EST.
Here's hoping for a surprise jam between Elvis Costello, the surviving Replacements, and System of a Down — all of whom were previously banned from SNL after their respective appearances.
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