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Saturday Night Live has frequently brought new underground sounds to a wider audience. But no one was prepared for the mayhem that erupted when John Belushi and writer Michael O’Donoghue invited . hardcore punks Fear to perform. They became pied pipers to what a New York Post headline dubbed a riot.

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Saturday Night Live," which premiered October 11, 1975, is broadcast live from NBC's famed Studio 8H in New York City's Rockefeller Center. The program is a production of Broadway Video in association with SNL Studios. Lorne Michaels is the executive producer.

Saturday Night Live' doesn’t always bring out the best in people. Politicians wear mom jeans (that’s you, Mr. McCain). Just weeks prior to their performance, grunge and all alternative music made little impact on the modern world (nless one happened upon Lorne Michaels’s unexpected late-night NBC show Night Music from 1988-1990 to catch Sonic Youth playing I Wanna Be Your Dog with Hiram Bullock and the Indigo Girls). Anyhow, Nirvana members kissing each other at the end was a nice gesture tweaking homophobes. 5. The Replacements (1986). People still argue about this night. I saw nothing then that looked worth arguing about. The 1977 performance banned Elvis Costello from SNL for life. Well, until 1989, to be exact, when Elvis showed up with a beard and a lackluster song. However, everyone knew that the first appearance was what counted.

Live from New York, it’s the worst SNL musical performance! We're looking at the worst musical performances to ever take place on Saturday Night Live by Anonymous. reply 3. Yesterday at 6:45 AM. I love Lana's first album but that performance was atrocious (way worse than Troye Sivan, who went to Lorde's dancing school). And that performance was really damaging, she was breaking and video games was gaining traction on radio and that stopped after that performance (the album did well anyway, and Summertime sadness even became his biggest hit after and awful remix). Yeah, I was watching that night R1 and when Ashlee started doing that jig to cover, the camera did a close-up and caught the bassist looking at the guitarist with a big ass smirk. WTF just happend? And of course, Tina Fey's head pat didn't help at the end of the show.

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Since its inception in 1975, US TV show Saturday Night Live has been a cultural touchstone like few others. Below, we’ve rounded up 15 of the very best SNL musical performances from the past 43 (!) years. Who: Kanye West What: ‘Black Skinhead’ Why: If ‘Yeezus’ marked the moment Kanye went from hip hop’s head honcho to avant-garde genius, his SNL performance was all the evidence needed that he’d gone from a ‘College Dropout’ to a cultural icon.

Watch BTS make their Saturday Night Live debut. In the first of their two performances of the evening, V, Suga, Jin, Jungkook, RM, Jimin, and J-Hope danced and sang their way through Boy With Luv, the single for which they released a video with Halsey on Friday and already has more 100 million YouTube views. And the second time around, they went with a more casual and colorful look for their hit track MIC Drop. For more BTS, check out EW’s cover story on the group, as well as our member guide and list of 10 most essential music videos. Related content: BTS release music video trailer for Map of the Soul: Persona album.

Beck made his long-awaited return to Saturday Night Live last night. His first appearance in eight years, and seventh to date, came in support of his new album, Morning Phase. He first performed a reverb-heavy rendition of Blue Moon accompanied by a band that included Father John Misty’s J. Tillman. For his second performance, he unfurled a gorgeous version of Wave alongside Tillman and a string orchestra. Replay both performances, along with his SNL promo video, below.