# 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts

The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts were a two-day concert series celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It took place on October 29 and 30, 2009 at Madison Square Garden and the tickets cost between US$75 and US$2,000.
The idea behind the concert was to have Hall of Fame inductees perform in eight segments (Crosby, Stills and Nash, Simon and Garfunkel, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Jeff Beck, Metallica and U2) and to present their own songs or songs originally performed by other Hall of Fame inductees. Eric Clapton was set to perform, but pulled out due to having his gallstones removed. Jeff Beck performed as his replacement.
A four-hour compilation of the concert was first broadcast by the US television provider HBO on November 29, 2009. In addition, the concert was released on DVD (HBO compilation on two DVDs plus a bonus DVD), on Blu-ray and on two double CDs or as a 4-CD box (including six bonus pieces).
The appearance of Metallica with Lou Reed eventually led to the recordings of the album Lulu.

## Night 1

| Segment | Guest | Song | HBO | DVD | CD | Notes |
| Jerry Lee Lewis | Jerry Lee Lewis | "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" | | | | - |
| Crosby, Stills and Nash | - | "Woodstock" | • | D1,3 | • | - |
| Crosby, Stills and Nash | - | "Marrakesh Express" | | | | - |
| Crosby, Stills and Nash | - | "Almost Cut My Hair" | • | D1,4 | • | - |
| David Crosby and Graham Nash | Bonnie Raitt | "Love Has No Pride" | • | D1,5 | • | - |
| David Crosby and Graham Nash | Bonnie Raitt | "Midnight Rider" | | | | Original: The Allman Brothers Band |
| David Crosby and Graham Nash | Jackson Browne | "The Pretender" | • | D1,6 | • | - |
| David Crosby and Graham Nash | James Taylor | "Mexico" | | D3,1 | 4 | - |
| Crosby, Stills and Nash | James Taylor | "Love the One You're With" | • | D1,7 | • | - |
| Crosby, Stills and Nash | - | "Rock & Roll Woman" | | | | - |
| Crosby, Stills and Nash | Bonnie Raitt Jackson Browne James Taylor | "Teach Your Children" | | D3,2 | | - |
| Paul Simon | - | "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" | | | | - |
| Paul Simon | - | "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" | | D1,14 | 4 | - |
| Paul Simon | - | "You Can Call Me Al" | • | D1,15 | • | - |
| Paul Simon | Dion DiMucci | "The Wanderer" | • | D1,17 | • | - |
| Paul Simon | David Crosby and Graham Nash | "Here Comes the Sun" | • | D1,16 | • | Original: The Beatles |
| Paul Simon | - | "Late in the Evening" | | | | - |
| Little Anthony and the Imperials | Little Anthony and the Imperials | "Two People in the World" | • | D1,18 | • | - |
| Simon and Garfunkel | - | "The Sound of Silence" | • | D1,19 | • | - |
| Simon and Garfunkel | - | "Mrs. Robinson" / "Not Fade Away" | | D3,7 | 4 | Original ("Not Fade Away"): Buddy Holly |
| Simon and Garfunkel | - | "The Boxer" | • | D1,20 | • | - |
| Simon and Garfunkel | - | "Bridge over Troubled Water" | • | D1,21 | • | - |
| Simon and Garfunkel | - | "Cecilia" | | | | - |
| Stevie Wonder | - | "Blowin' in the Wind" | | | | Original: Bob Dylan |
| Stevie Wonder | - | "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" | | D3,3 | | - |
| Stevie Wonder | - | "I Was Made to Love You" | | D3,4 | | - |
| Stevie Wonder | - | "For Once in My Life" | • | D1,8 | • | - |
| Stevie Wonder | - | "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" | | D3,5 | 4 | - |
| Stevie Wonder | - | "Boogie on Reggae Woman" | | | | - |
| Stevie Wonder | Smokey Robinson | "The Tracks of My Tears" | • | D1,9 | • | - |
| Stevie Wonder | John Legend | "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" | | D3,6 | 4 | Original: Marvin Gaye |
| Stevie Wonder | John Legend | "The Way You Make Me Feel" | • | D1,10 | • | Original: Michael Jackson |
| Stevie Wonder | B. B. King | "The Thrill is Gone" | • | D1,11 | • | - |
| Stevie Wonder | - | "Living for the City" | | | | - |
| Stevie Wonder | Sting | "Higher Ground" / "Roxanne" | • | D1,12 | • | - |
| Stevie Wonder | Jeff Beck | "Superstition" | • | D1,13 | • | - |
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | - | "10th Avenue Freeze-Out" | | | | - |
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | Sam Moore | "Hold On, I'm Comin'" | • | D2,17 | | - |
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | Sam Moore | "Soul Man" | • | D2,17 | | - |
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | Tom Morello | "The Ghost of Tom Joad" | • | D2,18 | • | - |
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | John Fogerty | "Fortunate Son" | • | D2,19 | • | - |
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | John Fogerty | "Proud Mary" | | | | - |
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | John Fogerty | "Oh, Pretty Woman" | • | D2,20 | • | Original: Roy Orbison |
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | - | "Jungleland" | • | D2,21 | • | - |
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | Darlene Love | "A Fine, Fine Boy" | • | D2,22 | • | - |
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | Darlene Love | "Da Doo Ron Ron" | | | | Original: The Crystals |
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | Tom Morello | "London Calling" | | D3,14 | 4 | Original: The Clash |
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | Tom Morello | "Badlands" | | | | - |
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | Billy Joel | "You May Be Right" | | | | - |
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | Billy Joel | "Only the Good Die Young" | | | | - |
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | Billy Joel | "New York State of Mind" | • | D2,23 | • | - |
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | Billy Joel | "Born to Run" | • | D2,24 | • | - |
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | Darlene Love John Fogerty Tom Morello Billy Joel Jackson Browne Sam Moore Peter Wolf | "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" | E | D2,25 D3,15 | E | Original: Jackie Wilson |

## Night 2

| Segment | Guest | Song | HBO | DVD | CD | Notes |
| Jerry Lee Lewis | Jerry Lee Lewis | "Great Balls of Fire" | • | D1,2 | • | - |
| Aretha Franklin | - | "Baby I Love You" | • | D1,22 | | - |
| Aretha Franklin | - | "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)" | • | D1,23 | | - |
| Aretha Franklin | - | "Make Them Hear You" | | | | - |
| Aretha Franklin | Annie Lennox | "Chain of Fools" | • | D1,24 | | - |
| Aretha Franklin | - | "New York, New York" | | | | - |
| Aretha Franklin | Lenny Kravitz | "Think" | | | | - |
| Aretha Franklin | - | "Respect" | | | | - |
| Jeff Beck | - | "Drown in My Own Tears" | | | | - |
| Jeff Beck | Sting | "People Get Ready" | • | D2,13 | • | Original: The Impressions |
| Jeff Beck | - | "Freeway Jam" | | D3,12 | | - |
| Jeff Beck | - | "Cause We've Ended as Lovers" | | | | - |
| Jeff Beck | Buddy Guy | "Let Me Love You Baby" | • | D2,14 | • | Original: Willie Dixon |
| Jeff Beck | - | "Big Block" | | D3,13 | | - |
| Jeff Beck | - | "Rice Pudding" | • | • | • | - |
| Jeff Beck | Billy Gibbons | "Foxy Lady" | • | D2,15 | • | Original: Jimi Hendrix |
| Jeff Beck | Billy Gibbons | "Rough Boy" | | | | - |
| Jeff Beck | - | "A Day in the Life" | • | D2,16 | • | Original: The Beatles |
| Metallica | - | "For Whom the Bell Tolls" | • | D2,1 | • | - |
| Metallica | - | "One" | | | | - |
| Metallica | - | "Turn the Page" | | D3,8 | • | Original: Bob Seger |
| Metallica | Lou Reed | "Sweet Jane" | • | D2,2 | • | - |
| Metallica | Lou Reed | "White Light/White Heat" | | | | - |
| Metallica | Ozzy Osbourne | "Iron Man" | E | D2,3 D3,9 | • | Original: Black Sabbath |
| Metallica | Ozzy Osbourne | "Paranoid" | E | D2,3 D3,9 | • | Original: Black Sabbath |
| Metallica | Ray Davies | "You Really Got Me" | | | | - |
| Metallica | Ray Davies | "All Day and All of the Night" | • | D2,4 | • | - |
| Metallica | - | "Stone Cold Crazy" | | | | Original: Queen |
| Metallica | - | "Enter Sandman" | • | D2,5 | • | - |
| U2 | - | "Vertigo" | • | D2,6 | • | - |
| U2 | - | "Magnificent" | • | D2,7 | • | - |
| U2 | Bruce Springsteen Patti Smith Roy Bittan | "Because the Night" | • | D2,8 | • | - |
| U2 | Bruce Springsteen Roy Bittan | "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" | • | D2,9 | • | - |
| U2 | - | "Mysterious Ways" | | D3,10 | • | - |
| U2 | Black Eyed Peas | "Where is the Love?" / "One" | | D3,11 | • | - |
| U2 | Mick Jagger Fergie Will.i.am | "Gimme Shelter" | • | D2,10 | • | Original: The Rolling Stones |
| U2 | Mick Jagger | "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" | • | D2,11 | • | - |
| U2 | - | "Beautiful Day" | • | D2,12 | • | - |

## HBO 3-disc DVD Set

This is the order of performances on the DVD discs. For concert order, see preceding sections "Night 1" and "Night 2".

### DVD disc 1

* Tom Hanks
** Introduction
* Jerry Lee Lewis
** Great Balls Of Fire
* Crosby, Stills & Nash
** Woodstock
** Almost Cut My Hair
** Love Has No Pride (with Bonnie Raitt)
** The Pretender (with Jackson Browne)
** Love The One You're With (with James Taylor)
* Stevie Wonder
** For Once In My Life
** The Tracks Of My Tears (with Smokey Robinson)
** The Way You Make Me Feel (with John Legend)
** The Thrill Is Gone (with B.B. King)
** Higher Ground/Roxanne (with Sting)
** Superstition (with Jeff Beck)
* Paul Simon
** Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard
** You Can Call Me Al
** Here Comes The Sun (with David Crosby and Graham Nash)
** The Wanderer (with Dion Dimucci)
* Little Anthony & The Imperials
** Two People In The World
* Simon & Garfunkel
** The Sounds Of Silence
** The Boxer
** Bridge Over Troubled Water
* Aretha Franklin
** Baby I Love You
** Don't Play That Song
** Chain Of Fools (with Annie Lennox)

### DVD disc 2

* Metallica
** For Whom The Bell Tolls
** Sweet Jane (with Lou Reed)
** Iron Man/Paranoid (with Ozzy Osbourne) (duplicated on bonus disc 3)
** All Day And All Of The Night (with Ray Davies)
** Enter Sandman
* U2
** Vertigo
** Magnificent
** Because The Night (with Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and Roy Bittan)
** I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (with Bruce Springsteen)
** Gimme Shelter (with Mick Jagger, Fergie and Will.I.Am)
** Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of (with Mick Jagger)
** Beautiful Day
* Jeff Beck
** People Get Ready (with Sting)
** Let Me Love You Baby (with Buddy Guy)
** Foxey Lady (with Billy Gibbons)
** A Day In The Life
* Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
** Hold On, I'm Comin'/Soul Man (with Sam Moore)
** The Ghost Of Tom Joad (with Tom Morello)
** Fortunate Son (with John Fogerty)
** Oh, Pretty Woman (with John Fogerty)
** Jungleland
** A Fine Fine Boy (with Darlene Love)
** New York State Of Mind (with Billy Joel)
** Born To Run (with Billy Joel)
** (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher (with Darlene Love, John Fogerty, Sam Moore, Billy Joel, and Tom Morello) (duplicated on bonus disc 3)
** credits

### DVD disc 3 (bonus)

* Crosby, Stills & Nash
** Mexico (with James Taylor)
** Teach Your Children (with Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, and James Taylor)
* Stevie Wonder
** Uptight (Everything's Alright)
** I Was Made To Love Her
** Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
** Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) (with John Legend)
* Simon & Garfunkel
** Mrs. Robinson/Not Fade Away
* Metallica
** Turn The Page
** Iron Man/Paranoid (with Ozzy Osbourne) (duplicate of performance on disc 2)
* U2
** Mysterious Ways
** Where Is The Love/One (with The Black Eyed Peas)
* Jeff Beck
** Freeway Jam
** Big Block
* Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
** London Calling (with Tom Morello)
** (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher (with Darlene Love, John Fogerty, Sam Moore, Billy Joel, and Tom Morello) (duplicate of performance on disc 2)
** credits