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Memorable Saturday Night Live Musical Moments
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- Subject: Memorable Saturday Night Live Musical Moments
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- Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 06:54:17 -0800
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A.V. Club
Inventory: Ten Memorable Saturday Night Live Musical Moments
By Noel Murray
March 7th, 2006
http://www.avclub.com/content/node/46061
[snip]
2. April 17, 1976Patti Smith
Though Saturday Night Live was broadcast from New York during an era
when the city's clubs were fostering a punk-rock revolution, the best
of those bands rarely got a chance to take the SNL stage in their
prime. One major exception was Patti Smith, who appeared after her
album Horses had become a cult hit, but before she crossed over to the
mainstream with "Because The Night." Suddenly, an audience raised on
The Beatles and The Grateful Dead was asked to appreciate an
androgynous, atonal beat poet, embellishing the garage-rock classic
"Gloria" with lines about boys humping parking meters and her lack of
faith in Jesus. The comedy of John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd had found
its analogue.
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