Tonight's Musical Guest, Today
The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Nirvana on Saturday Night Live. Warren Zevon on David Letterman. Sometimes, late-night TV musical performances live on forever. Most don’t. But we still want to talk about them.
Each week on “Tonight’s Musical Guest, Today”, long-time friends Alex Beaton and Jon Hillman dive in on the music and cultural memory of a band through the arc of their late-night TV performances. Watch along with Alex and Jon as they examine and react to these musical history moments preserved in the amber of time alongside two celebrity guests and a talk show host.
From Conan to Colbert, Letterman to Leno, or SNL to MadTV, there is no shortage of iconic late-night musical moments. And no end to the ones you don’t remember.
Tonight's Musical Guest, Today
Amy Winehouse
Her voice: timeless. Her TV performances: iconic. We're headed across the pond and googling gobby. It's AMY WINEHOUSE week!
Clips on Later...with Jools Holland and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross show Amy at her jazziest. Jools Holland's 2006 Annual Hootenanny gives her the big band treatment with Paul Weller from The Jam. Amy breaks out in her American television debut on David Letterman. And award show performances at The Mercury Prize and The Grammys perfectly capture both the zenith and tragic ending of Amy's story. Plus the debut of HOLLAND'S JEWELS!
Want to watch along with us? Check out the links below for the performances discussed this week!
Stronger Than Me/Take the Box, 11/7/03 on Later...with Jools Holland
I Heard Love is Blind, 3/19/04 on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Monkey Man/Don't go to Strangers with Paul Weller/I Heard it Through the Grapevine with Paul Weller/The Mighty Quinn with Paul Weller and Sam Moore, 12/31/06 on Jools Holland's Annual Hootenanny
Rehab, 3/12/07 on The Late Show with David Letterman
Love is a Losing Game, 9/3/07 on The Mercury Prize
You Know I'm No Good/Rehab, 2/10/08 on The Grammy Awards