The Grammys announced today that The Eurythmics are reuniting for music’s biggest night of the year to pay tribute to the biggest band ever, The Beatles.
On February 9, 1964, the Fab Four played The Ed Sullivan Show and music was changed forever. Exactly 50 years later, The Grammys is airing and they have some of the biggest names in music singing the tunes of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Star. Annie Lennox and her former partner, Dave Stewart, will get high off The Beatles’ hits with a little help from their friends Alicia Keys and John Legend, Maroon 5, and John Mayer and Keith Urban.
Sorry if this doesn’t seem like a sweet dream to me, but Ken Ehrlich’s tribute to 2/9/64 was such a bust at the Emmys that I have low expectations for this one. I mean are we going to go into every commercial break with some music legend singing a Beatles song. I like most people went through a Beatles phase and understand their greatness, but do people under 30 feel the same way? Their Beatles is Nirvana, and to be honest I am not sure they know their songs well enough to care to hear them performed at The Grammys.
And if you are going to do the tribute to The Beatles, then you are sure as hell better have Sir Paul, Sir Ringo, Yoko Ono, Julian Lennon and Sean Lennon, Stella McCarthy and the rest of the second generation doing something during the show. Otherwise to me the tribute is a complete bust.
Finally, whatever else Ehrlich has planned for the night; please don’t have Carrie Underwood sing Yesterday again because that was beyond painful to our ears. I love her, but I hated her rendition of the Macca song.
Once again Neil Patrick Harris showed all the other hosts how to open an awards show with the opening number he had tonight for The Tony Awards! No one does it better than him and that fact that he kept that momentum up for 7 minutes is absolutely incredible. Way to go NPH!
Plus he had every show that is playing/ed on the Great White Way this past year be part of it.
And my favorite part was when his dissed the Les Miz movie because it’s true. Gotta love Broadway where the actors sing live 8 days a week and they don’t need a closeup to prove it.
UPDATE: The show was more than just the opening number, here is Andrew Rannells, Megan Hilty and Laura Benanti singing about their cancelled shows. Remember The New Normal, Smash, Go On and The Playboy Club? I do and I miss them too.
And here is a cute moment between NPH and Annie’s Sandy!
Finally this is how the Tonys ended with NPH and Audra McDonald wrapping up the wonderful show to the music of Alicia Keys Empire State of Mind.
via Daily Mail
Before Alicia Keys was winning Grammy awards, she was won the Bucking Horse game on The Cosby Show. How awwwdorable was the 5 year in the black grey shirt in that 1985 episode? Who knew she could’ve been an actress instead of a singer?
