History Awesome / Music

* Awesome/TheKillers

* Both musical performances on the last episode of ''Series/TheTonightShow with Creator/ConanOBrien''. First, Music/NeilYoung doing an acoustic version of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nszR0tfp4Es Long May You Run]]''.[[note]]He had, just that day, lost a close friend, film producer L.A. Johnson. Most thought he wouldn't play at all. Talk about awesome.[[/note]] Then, the GrandFinale, Creator/WillFerrell (dressed as the late Ronnie Van Zant of Music/LynyrdSkynyrd), his heavily pregnant wife (who gave birth hours after this performance) Viveca Paulin, [[Music/ZZTop BillyGibbons]], Ben Harper, Music/{{Beck}}, Creator/ConanOBrien, and Max Weinberg and The Tonight Show Band performing "Free Bird". And you better believe Will broke out [[MemeticMutation the cowbell]].

** Music/JanisJoplin channeling Bessie Smith.

* Awesome/{{Beck}}

* Music/MichaelJackson's epic [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_in_Bucharest:_The_Dangerous_Tour HBO concert]] during his ''Music/{{Dangerous}}'' tour was quite possibly the high point of his career. And it was one of the single best concerts in the history of mankind.

* Music/{{Take That|Band}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhSGwPoHo6w?t=1m25s performing at the 2012 Olympics Closing Ceremony.]] For reasons why this is awesome, frontman Gary Barlow's daughter Poppy had been delivered stillborn just over a week earlier. The amount of strength and determination for any parent to even get out of bed following such a tragedy is phenomenal, let alone perform to billions worldwide. Keep in mind as well that all the musical acts performing at the Olympics were only being paid £1 (technically, they played for free, but a formal contract requires a figure, however small), so he wasn't there for the money. He was there because, well, TheShowMustGoOn.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhSGwPoHo6w?t=1m25s Take That performing at the 2012 Olympics Closing Ceremony.]] For reasons why this is awesome, frontman Gary Barlow's daughter Poppy had been delivered stillborn just over a week earlier. The amount of strength and determination for any parent to even get out of bed following such a tragedy is phenomenal, let alone perform to billions worldwide. Keep in mind as well that all the musical acts performing at the Olympics were only being paid £1 (technically, they played for free, but a formal contract requires a figure, however small), so he wasn't there for the money. He was there because, well, TheShowMustGoOn.

* So Music/DeadKennedys were invited to the Bay Area Music Awards to perform "California Über Alles". Only, a few measures in, [[FaceOfTheBand Jello Biafra]] shouts "hold it" and tells the audience that they've sold out now. They then proceed to play a new song, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm0t99WmSCM Pull My Strings]]", the single most sarcastic, angry and dead-on criticism of the entire music business ever written. Kick. Ass.

*** Put in further perspective: Prior to "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and the British Invasion, just four songs by British artists – "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" by Vera Lynn (nine weeks in 1952); "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" by Laurie London in 1958; and the instrumentals "Stranger on the Shore" by Acker Bilk and "Telstar" by the Tornados, both in 1962 – topped the chart. There had been occassional hits from the UK that gained mainstream popularity in the United States, but the proverbial floodgates opened when the Beatles and other acts, such as Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} became hugely popular. In 1964 alone, nine songs by British artists reached No. 1 (out of that year's 24 songs that topped the Billboard Hot 100), more than twice the number of songs from the UK that had topped the chart in the previous 23-year history of the Billboard pop chart. By the end of the 1960s, 39 songs from Great Britain had gone No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, with nearly half (18) by the Fab Four (with The Rolling Stones the next closest at five).

* Awesome/{{Underworld}}

** The Billy Jean performance deserves a special mention, because he actually started building up the song ''backwards''. The reversed beats already sounded cool enough, but then he has Alexinho come up on stage and drop the "hey hey", at which point Saro reverses the track and let the Michael Jackson music roll. This is enough to send all five judges up on their chairs, and cement Saro as the winner of the competition.

* Saro, the Beatbox Loop station GOAT. When he participated in the 2017 Grand Beatbox Battle, he swept the entire competition by a landslide and won every single vote from the judges. To this date, his Piege and Billie Jean drops are still considered as some of the best beatbox drops in the entire loopstation history. Made even more awesome by the fact that this is his ''first'' time competing in a solo loopstation battle ever.
** The Billy Jean performance deserves a special mention, because he actually started building up the song ''backwards''. The reversed beats were already cool enough, but then he has Alexinho come up on stage and drop the "hey hey", at which point Saro the track and let the Michael Jackson music roll. This is enough to send all five judges up on their chairs, and cement Saro as the winner of the competition.

* Saro, the Beatbox Loop station GOAT. When he first participated in the 2017 Grand Beatbox Battle, he won pretty much every single vote from the judges in every round, and even his opponents knew they're not winning against him before the judges cast their votes. And to this date, his Piege and Billie Jean drops (which got standing ovations from the judges) are still considered some of the best beatbox drops in history.
** The Billy Jean performance deserves a special mention, because he actually starts building up the song ''backwards''. The beats were already cool enough, but then he has Alexinho come up on stage and drop the "hey hey", at which point Saro reverses the track and let the Michael Jackson music roll. This is enough to send all five judges up on their chairs, and cement Saro as the winner of the competition.

** The Billy Jean performance deserves a special mention, because he actually starts building up the song ''backwards''. The beats already sound cool enough, but then he has Alexinho come up on stage and drop the "hey hey", at which point Saro reverses the track and let the Michael Jackson song roll. This is enough to send all five judges standing on their chairs, and cement Saro as the winner of the competition.

* Saro, the Beatbox Loop station GOAT. When he first participated in the 2017 Grand Beatbox Battle, he won pretty much every single vote from the judges in every round, and even his opponents knew they're not winning against him before the judges cast their votes. Indeed, he's been undefeated throughout his loop station battle history, and has consistently won unanimous votes in his battle rounds, the only exception being the 2018 WBC semi-final against NME, which he won with a 4-1 vote.

** It's more of a {{narm}}y-awesome example, but Irene Cara performing "Film/{{Flashdance}}" in 1984 is especially worth watching [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLZy-u3vrto for the way the comic-strip characters on the float with her bounce around when the song picks up]].

* Saro, the Beatbox Loopstation GOAT. When he first participated in the 2017 Grand Beatbox Battle, he won pretty much every single vote from the judges in every round, and even his opponents knew they're not winning against him before the judges cast their votes.

* SARO, the Beatbox Loopstation GOAT. When he first participated in the 2017 Grand Beatbox Battle, he won pretty much every single vote from the judges in every round, and even his opponents knew they're not winning against him before the judges cast their votes.