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    The 12 Greatest Revelations from Questlove's SNL Music Documentary

    James EvendenBy James EvendenJanuary 27, 20253 Mins Read
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    As a part of the continued festivities surrounding the fiftieth anniversary of Saturday Night time Reside, administrators Questlove and Oz Rodriguez supply up Girls & Gents… 50 Years of SNL Music, an in-depth take a look at SNL‘s wealthy historical past of musical performances.

    Opening with a transcendent seven-minute mashup of artists like Beyoncé, David Bowie, U2, Run-DMC, and extra as featured on the present, the documentary then explores all the things from the depth of being each host and musical visitor throughout the identical week to SNL‘s most groundbreaking — and sure, controversial — moments.

    Not each a kind of moments is explored in depth: Ashlee Simpson’s 2004 lip-sync fail, for instance, will get coated in a comparatively matter-of-fact manner, with no main revelations past the truth that issues very clearly didn’t go in keeping with plan. Nonetheless, there are some enjoyable surprises and divulges all through the two-plus hours of the film, which is made with quite a lot of respect and appreciation for the doorways that SNL has opened over time for rising artists — and the impression it’s had on the world for the final 5 many years.


    Lorne Michaels Says Saturday Night time Reside Has By no means Banned Anybody

    At one level within the documentary, the creator of SNL makes an attempt to debunk a long-held assumption in regards to the present: “I’ll learn it typically within the Submit, ‘So and so’s banned for all times.’ We’ve by no means banned anybody. We’re manner too crass and opportunistic. If one thing’s sizzling, we’re going to go for it and have it on.”

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    There’s, in fact, a transparent distinction to be made between “banned for all times” and “by no means being requested again for no matter purpose.” Nevertheless it’s nonetheless a really telling quote.

    No One Is aware of the Precise Tune for the SNL Theme Track

    As seen on this clip, nobody interviewed for this documentary can precisely recreate what the Saturday Night time Reside theme track appears like. “There is no such thing as a melody constant, is there?” Jack White realizes. “It’s only a wailing saxophone — somebody being taken out of the constructing enjoying saxophone by the police and the microphone’s nonetheless linked.” SNL musical director Lenny Pickett does play the sax riff for the digicam, but additionally, the purpose stands.

    Eddie Murphy Didn’t Wish to Do “James Brown Superstar Sizzling Tub Celebration”

    When requested in regards to the conception of the sketch (through which James Brown… will get right into a sizzling tub), the comic says he laughed off the unique pitch as a result of writers David Sheffield and Barry W. Blaustein would possibly have been excessive on the time. “Get the fuck outta right here, y’all be smoking that shit,” is how Murphy describes his preliminary response to the thought. After all, it went on to kill.

    Dave Grohl Has Skilled A number of Technical Difficulties on the Present

    Grohl, having appeared on SNL 16 occasions over time, hasn’t at all times had the best expertise: Within the documentary, he reveals that in 1992, due to nerves, he truly snapped his drumstick in half 20 seconds into Nirvana’s first efficiency on the present. Moreover, in 2010, Grohl made a memorable cameo because the drummer within the sketch “Punk Band Reunion At The Marriage ceremony” — however his microphone didn’t work, resulting in Ashton Kutcher sharing his personal mic for Grohl’s portion of the track.

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