Sting's original version uses some weird Hungarian alternating 4/5 rhythm. Bruce just took out the odd numbered beat to smooth it out. I think Sting actually started performing it that way on occasion as well.
Lady Gaga was scorching; Esperanza achingly emotive. Bruno killed it, but...Bruce. Oh my God. Powerful, gut wrenching. He turned Sting's song into his own.
Lady Gaga was AMAZING. The way Sting and his wife Trudy turn their faces and realise at the beginning of that performance that watching this woman perform one of his songs is going to be special💜
In case ur wondering, Sting is clapping like that to increase the volume of each clap (not that it matters in a crowd of that size, but anyway.) Try it urself. If you clap with ur fingers spread apart and your palms flat and open like that, the decibel level of your clap is NOTICEABLY louder. It's akin to yelling Bravo! instead of just clapping. Gives it a little more oompf. Plain and simple.
It says everything you need to hear about your career when you have Lady Gaga, Esperanza Spalding, Herbie Hancock, Bruce Springsteen and Bruno Mars come out and play your tunes for you. Sting has crossed so any boundaries, a true connoisseur of the music of the world that the world itself has appreciated. A musicians musician. Despite all that, he can't clap for shit.
He may be clapping intentionally that way. That's the way they clap for example in Ethiopia, in Morocco, and in Spain (Flamenco). Probably some other countries as well. It is much louder and clearer if you hit it right. Important for the fast, intricate, and multi-layered clapping in their traditional misic. He's been studying world music so I'm sure he picked it up from somewhere.
I am a Jamaican 🇯🇲. And we here on this island 🏝️ 🇯🇲 💕 love ❤️, love & appreciate Sting and his music 🎶🎶🎵 And he loves us too. Congratulations on your award Sting 👏🏽💐 very much deserve. . And you are still a buzz 🐝.😅. You rock 🕺🏾🎸. Rock on family🙏🏾🤗🥰💖
Ei ! Lindo ver Sting ser homenageado por estas feras da música ! Nós brasileiros o amamos por ele respeitar nossos povos indígenas! Viva Sting e Cacique Raony !❤
Esperanza Spalding's vocal performance (aside from the excellent instrumentation, of course) is unbelievably beautiful yet warmly sensual. Herbie Hancock's piano playing is like raindrops on a windowsill. Just an enchanting experience, even in the midst of some very strong performances.
Actually, if Herbie Hancock shows up for you it means even more. Herbie's played with the greats of jazz including Miles Davis. But Bruce is stellar here and really owns the song. And to be honest if you close your eyes it's like Bruno Mars is channelling Sting...awesome.
Wow!!! I Love Bruce Springsteen! 😍Himself an awardee and honored, seeing him performing and playing tribute was a remarkable gesture. Amazing and incredible artists!
Have you watched the version at Sting's anniversary with Stevie Wonder playing harp? truly awesome. I think this song is so good that whoever sings it cannot be bad.
18:37 Bruno is absolutely killing at this point in the song. I love how it transitions from a super-chill reggae feel and explodes to a rockin' ending with the choir!
You don't really understand what impact Sting made on music until you hear these fantastic tributes. It all puts it into perspective and makes you really think about Sting's timeless career
Timeless talent that many do not give him enough credit. Brunos tribute is about how Sting influenced him and even John Mayer gives him credit while sitting in his room listening to King of pain. Thank you Sting. Thank you
The Boss just sung a Sting song, didn`t you know that all great people lean to the left? you sound a bit weird mate, and really not that special..lace your boots and bugger off!
After this performance I suddenly realized how great author Sting is, and how great performer Lady Gaga is. She should record a live album with all the Sting's songs.
The Kennedy Center Honors have created some amazing, memorable individual performances, but I think as an overall package, this one was the strongest I've seen. From Gaga to Bruno, they all rocked it.
Sting has been through the worst. He is the best writer, so he wrote a movie to get rid of music block! He also began writing with Eric Clapton. Eric taught him about loss and Sting started Writing from inside. Every song teaches me something! Great comment!!! Sting is my favorite artist once he left The Police. Fragile we are.🎉
How to play jazz piano: play like normal with loads of mistakes in quick succession and then pretend like you were supposed to play like that all along
Absolutely! And while Sting has already toured with the likes of Peter Gabriel, Shaggy and Paul Simon, I cannot tell you how pumped I would be for him and Bruno to tour together. That 2013 Grammy performance they gave together was outstanding and gave everyone a taste of what it would be like. I for one would be front and center!
Once again, EVERY performer NAILED IT... not only delivering a cover worth remembering but delivering a reinterpretation that is brilliant in its own right... HOLY CRAP! Herbie Hancock, Bruno, Lady Gaga, the BOSS bring tears of joy!
I'm back - last time I loved Gaga, this time it was Bruce. You can't teach that kind of soul-searching. That's the Boss bringing his own life to Sting's music. Just awesome.
One day I put Sting's songs on a CD and put in our family van. That's how my wife became a fan of him. Years later my daughter who is an young adult now told me that she raided my computer and downloaded all of my music collection. She told me of all the artist she loves and one of them is Sting. She treasures these songs as they remind her of all those good child memories when we traveled in our van and listen to and often sang-along to them. My daughter got good taste in music after all...
I remember dancing in my parents’ living room to Sting, back when I was still their only child, standing on my dad’s feet as we danced around the room. Now, as an adult, I can’t hear his songs without crying for the sweet nostalgia that they conjure within me. Your daughter will treasure the connection you share over his music for the rest of her life.
@@bbdd2145 Wtf do you think "So lonely" is? if not a pop song? You want to hear someone "slaughter it"? Listen to Sting on the Police reunion tour. Bruno Mars gave it life like Sting did 40 years ago nd it's not that Sting was too old he just acted like he was doing everyone a favor by being there.
I'd be honored if some Sting fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal cover performances of WHY SHOULD I CRY FOR YOU and ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK on my YT channel in tribute to the master of lyricism and composition. Live acoustic with no digital editing. Thanks and peace.
Back in the early 1980s I was a dairy production manager at Associated Dairies in Newcastle. One morning I went across to the canteen for breakfast - probably about 7am (I didn't always have time) - the canteen was busy (long trestle tables) but there was unaccountably lots of room around three guys having their breakfast. I sat down opposite them with a smile and a "morning". I was well into my breakfast by the time I realised that one of them was Sting. It turned out he was back home and was out helping his dad who was a bottled milk buyer customer of the dairy the other chap was his brother.
Only Sting can make such dreary topics sound upbeat and make listeners want to dance. I thank God every day for Sting's existence. Every little thing "he" does is magic.
OMG Bruno mars definitely stole the show for me!. Damn he actually sounded a bit like sting!. I was shocked. This man always sings from the heart and he is a genius musician as well. Love him.
I saw Springsteen, Peter Gabriel, Sting at the same live performance in Torino Italy in 1988. I'm not a huge fan of Springsteen's but believe me that time he was way the best performer.
That was FANTASTIC. The best and the brightest were called in for this magnificent Tribute, which is apropos of Sting, who is among the best and brightest of 20th and 21st-century popular musical talents. How come I am just now seeing this nearly 10 years since this performance transpired? No matter: It was well worth the wait to see it now. 😀
Bloody hell.... I thought i had seen the motherload..after the Led Zeppelin honors show.. Such incredible emotion.. Then... i saw this one.. Damn.. I'm speechless. Gaga gave it all.. the Boss brought such density.. incredible. B. Mars very solid.. through such a different styled medley. And man.. Esperanza Spalding just stole the show.. I mean.. such class.. grace.. and skill.. Such musicality .. and those Herbie Hancock harmonic fills.. They did what was truly difficult to do -> make those songs even greater. I feel priviliged .. to watch this. thank you!
Lady Gaga never ceases to amaze me. That girl can sing.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha an idot wamen
Bruno will honored by the Kennedy Center one day no doubt!
I'm not a Bruno Mars fan but he absolutely killed the performance on this tribute
And that’s why Bruce is still the boss...he sang that song as if it were his own...freaking amazing!
Sting's original version uses some weird Hungarian alternating 4/5 rhythm. Bruce just took out the odd numbered beat to smooth it out. I think Sting actually started performing it that way on occasion as well.
I admire musicians so much. I took piano lessons as a kid. Maybe I should start playing again.
Exact
No one managed to carry the depth of emotion in song delivery like Bruce Springsteen.
It was Great!
Gaga definitely pulled as his heart seams
When Herbie Hancock playing your song on your tribute, clearly u're a real maestro ..
Is there anything that Bruno Mars can't do? Outstanding tribute to Sting.
he killed it!!! The songs he did suits his voice
there answer to this is no, he can literally do it all haha and i for one am happy as can be about it
He is so fucking talented .He can do it all .
@@ricog2343 I'm yet to find out if he can properly cover Barry White.
Hes Islander...... white people like to OWN sht..... coulored people like to love and entertain and love and give and share with others.
Lady Gaga was scorching; Esperanza achingly emotive. Bruno killed it, but...Bruce. Oh my God. Powerful, gut wrenching. He turned Sting's song into his own.
I love that Springsteen paid tribute. Icon to icon. And Bruno Mars killed it!
You know you’re good when Bruce shows up to pay tribute.
Springsteen covering Sting, one of those perfect moments, such mutual respect and admiration, hate the cliches , but a bromance in the best of light.
Sting covering Bruce at his Kennedy Center honor is just as excellent. I cried for the whole performance.
Lady Gaga was AMAZING. The way Sting and his wife Trudy turn their faces and realise at the beginning of that performance that watching this woman perform one of his songs is going to be special💜
I'm fascinated by the way Sting claps like a little kid
ikr! It's so darned adorable!
joy
Have you seen nicole kidman oscar clap? You gon love it too 🤣🤧
In case ur wondering, Sting is clapping like that to increase the volume of each clap (not that it matters in a crowd of that size, but anyway.) Try it urself. If you clap with ur fingers spread apart and your palms flat and open like that, the decibel level of your clap is NOTICEABLY louder. It's akin to yelling Bravo! instead of just clapping. Gives it a little more oompf. Plain and simple.
Love how Sting his wife is singing along with Bruno at 17:58
When he played in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 I was working as Security. He came and sat Down eating lunch With us. I have never experienced that before
Ej hvor fedt 🤗🙌🙌🙌🙌
Simple class.
Esperanza Spalding nailed the phrasing and vocals singing "Fragile". She nailed the bassline and rocked the standup bass. What a cool chic!
Beautiful!
Bruno Mar's knock this out of the park...he really did.
It says everything you need to hear about your career when you have Lady Gaga, Esperanza Spalding, Herbie Hancock, Bruce Springsteen and Bruno Mars come out and play your tunes for you. Sting has crossed so any boundaries, a true connoisseur of the music of the world that the world itself has appreciated. A musicians musician.
Despite all that, he can't clap for shit.
Sting is Brilliant ❣️💋☮️🎶
He may be clapping intentionally that way. That's the way they clap for example in Ethiopia, in Morocco, and in Spain (Flamenco). Probably some other countries as well. It is much louder and clearer if you hit it right. Important for the fast, intricate, and multi-layered clapping in their traditional misic.
He's been studying world music so I'm sure he picked it up from somewhere.
Something tells me Bruno Mars may be up on that balcony some day in the future! His performance in his tribute to Sting is incredible!🙏🎶❤️🎤
I am a Jamaican 🇯🇲. And we here on this island 🏝️ 🇯🇲 💕 love ❤️, love & appreciate Sting and his music 🎶🎶🎵 And he loves us too. Congratulations on your award Sting 👏🏽💐 very much deserve. . And you are still a buzz 🐝.😅. You rock 🕺🏾🎸. Rock on family🙏🏾🤗🥰💖
Ei ! Lindo ver Sting ser homenageado por estas feras da música ! Nós brasileiros o amamos por ele respeitar nossos povos indígenas! Viva Sting e Cacique Raony !❤
Esperanza Spalding's vocal performance (aside from the excellent instrumentation, of course) is unbelievably beautiful yet warmly sensual. Herbie Hancock's piano playing is like raindrops on a windowsill. Just an enchanting experience, even in the midst of some very strong performances.
Any project sting touches turns to gold
Esperanza Spalding is an absolute genius. But she doesn't care for hit songs so too few people are aware of her.
@@saschamaj Her performance here is otherworldly!!
at the end you can see Sting gasping for air😆
Agreed. She looks like she’s making love with her bass. Truly passionate
If Springsteen shows up for you, it means you have achieved it!
They've been friends since the mid 80s. They did a 6 week tour together along with Peter Gabriel in support of Amnesty International.
Sting preformed when Bruce was honored a few years before.
Crazy how it sounded like Bruce wrote the song.
Actually, if Herbie Hancock shows up for you it means even more. Herbie's played with the greats of jazz including Miles Davis. But Bruce is stellar here and really owns the song. And to be honest if you close your eyes it's like Bruno Mars is channelling Sting...awesome.
@@pvkoz8698 He also played keyboard on my favorite song, Hunter and The Hunted - Simple Minds.
Gaga and Bruno were so daaaaamn perfect and powerful!
Man Kennedy Center Honors Concerts are the best live performances human kind has ever seen
Sting loved Bruno Mars. You could see on his face. Sounds just like Sting. Sure Sting was shocked ! !
19:16 for Sting getting all emotional and teary for it all, and his wife looking over at him and laughing.
una pregunta, perdon, sabes quienes eran todos ellos???
Alejandro Gomez Los hijos de Sting. Por eso se emocionó.
Bruno Mars was brilliant. He even sounds a little like Sting.
A LOT! lol
He says he usually sing songs similar to his range I guess that's what's easier for him. He did mention Sting among 2 others as an example.
Overwhelmed with the talent paying tribute to Sting.
When sting claps, it's like he's crushing bubbles
+Ash Hudson He looks like a baby clapping for the first time before being properly corrected.
+Ash Hudson He looks like he has arthritis in his hands.
+Ash Hudson that has to be the funniest youtube comment ive ever read
+Ash Hudson namaste
***** When I'm crushing bubbles, yes
Bruce Springsteen and Bruno Mars were brilliant!! Each one in their own way!
Wow!!! I Love Bruce Springsteen! 😍Himself an awardee and honored, seeing him performing and playing tribute was a remarkable gesture. Amazing and incredible artists!
i love Bruce Springsteen .He is so intense and you can just feel and visulize every word when he sings.
Fun fact: When Sting was 2 years old, he decided to stop practicing clapping, and instead he used all his brain capacity to write music.
😂😂😂😂😂
I see what you did there..
Funny stuff , way too clever for a UA-cam comment
damn you, Quantum Leap
He claps like Ibrahim Tatlises
Esperanza and Herbie Hancock's version of Fragile is just special!
DernLud It was beautiful
+DernLud Incredible!
alperry02 oh yes it is!
Have you watched the version at Sting's anniversary with Stevie Wonder playing harp? truly awesome. I think this song is so good that whoever sings it cannot be bad.
Musical orgasm all along.. Very special indeed
Esperanza Spaulding gave a stunning performance.
+WysteriaGuitar who is the pianist?
Herbie Hancock
esperanza spaulding
Even Herbie was captivated at the end by Esperanza
WysteriaGuitar 8
18:37 Bruno is absolutely killing at this point in the song. I love how it transitions from a super-chill reggae feel and explodes to a rockin' ending with the choir!
Esperaza Spalding - I'm hearing her for the first time. Got chills... So much soul...
11:52 that arpeggio that Esperanza throws at us is just deliciously perfect and henceforth essencial in the song!!!!
You don't really understand what impact Sting made on music until you hear these fantastic tributes. It all puts it into perspective and makes you really think about Sting's timeless career
Timeless talent that many do not give him enough credit. Brunos tribute is about how Sting influenced him and even John Mayer gives him credit while sitting in his room listening to King of pain. Thank you Sting. Thank you
yeah, i remember him in Dune mostly, that and Roxanne (mostly because Eddie Murphy sang it in Beverly Hills Cop) :^}
@jane rae You really think American rock is better than British rock?
The Boss just sung a Sting song, didn`t you know that all great people lean to the left? you sound a bit weird mate, and really not that special..lace your boots and bugger off!
Well
His realization when the cast members came on stage just made me so happy
Lady Gaga is amazing. That voice phewww
Bruno Mars should not be allowed to sing Message in a Bottle without some kind of warning first.. whew!
Very touching when the cast of the Last Ship came out. Bruno totally rocked the place.
Sting got emotional when they came out 🥺
Bruno Mars reaching the vocal range of the original master and Kenny Aronof keeping the beat YEAH
Bruno KILLED it! Fab!!!!
Bruno is amazing!!
After this performance I suddenly realized how great author Sting is, and how great performer Lady Gaga is. She should record a live album with all the Sting's songs.
A collab--a duet--would be a blast.
I will buy that one.
Nope. I felt that her performance was overzealous. The woman who did Fragile was wonderful, and Bruno was amazing!
Damn...Bruno Mars amazing on "Messege in the Bottle". Great Performance!!!
Equisite + sultry. ..Eperanza Spaulding + Herbie Hancock. . . oh so smooth
Brings all kind of emotions to the surface. In love ❤
That so lonely by Mars is absolutely extraordinaire
The Kennedy Center Honors have created some amazing, memorable individual performances, but I think as an overall package, this one was the strongest I've seen. From Gaga to Bruno, they all rocked it.
Pleasantly surprised by Lady Gaga.
Every single performer went out there to honor Sting by giving it their best, and every single one of them did.
I liked the 2013 show.... and who doesn't think Heart's cover of 'Stairway to Heaven' isn't one of the best ever?
@@imuawarriors for sure. Foo fighets were also great
2012 Led Zeppelin was epic
That was amazing.. Brunos voice is perfect for Stings songs.. So good..
Jesus! Not a Gaga fan, but she absolutely just crushed that performance! Great set of pipes.
Gaga was amazing and you can see how impressed Sting was by her.
The end where everyone comes out to serenade him is breathtaking..
Good lord, Bruce. I never heard “hung my head” this story like. As if Bruce or Dylan had written it. Awesome.
Damn Bruce. I bet he could grab one of those Gaga's songs a tell a story about it. What a master!
Police were great....but his solo works... especially the first albums...are true masterpieces!!!! 💯🎵🎶
Bruno is a god of a universe somewhere oh i just love him
It's awesome how choked up he gets throughout. Also, it's cool to see how happy Trudi is, singing along. She has aged extremely well. :-)
I could listen to Bruno all day. Awesome voice. Awesome music by Sting. Classic.
It's imposible not to love and admire a guy like Sting. His work both in The Police and solist are simply LEGENDARY.
Yes, He is awesome.
Sting has been through the worst. He is the best writer, so he wrote a movie to get rid of music block! He also began writing with Eric Clapton. Eric taught him about loss and Sting started
Writing from inside. Every song teaches me something! Great comment!!! Sting is my favorite artist once he left The Police. Fragile we are.🎉
I love when Herbie Hancock part played in jazz style
How to play jazz piano: play like normal with loads of mistakes in quick succession and then pretend like you were supposed to play like that all along
So many talented people there but Bruno Mars is overwhelming!
he loves men
@@CWoLF2001 So now Jessica Caban is a man?
Absolutely! And while Sting has already toured with the likes of Peter Gabriel, Shaggy and Paul Simon, I cannot tell you how pumped I would be for him and Bruno to tour together. That 2013 Grammy performance they gave together was outstanding and gave everyone a taste of what it would be like. I for one would be front and center!
You can see how much Sting truly appreciates and is humbled by these performances.....
He looked so moved, at the edge of the tears. Sting you're wonderful!
Once again, EVERY performer NAILED IT... not only delivering a cover worth remembering but delivering a reinterpretation that is brilliant in its own right... HOLY CRAP! Herbie Hancock, Bruno, Lady Gaga, the BOSS bring tears of joy!
hotel foxtrot
In my opinion, Esperanza & Hancock were the best! Magnificent arrangements and voice...
I'm back - last time I loved Gaga, this time it was Bruce. You can't teach that kind of soul-searching. That's the Boss bringing his own life to Sting's music. Just awesome.
One day I put Sting's songs on a CD and put in our family van. That's how my wife became a fan of him. Years later my daughter who is an young adult now told me that she raided my computer and downloaded all of my music collection. She told me of all the artist she loves and one of them is Sting. She treasures these songs as they remind her of all those good child memories when we traveled in our van and listen to and often sang-along to them. My daughter got good taste in music after all...
Sting was definitely a road trip companion of ours too.
I remember dancing in my parents’ living room to Sting, back when I was still their only child, standing on my dad’s feet as we danced around the room. Now, as an adult, I can’t hear his songs without crying for the sweet nostalgia that they conjure within me. Your daughter will treasure the connection you share over his music for the rest of her life.
Wow. When Bruno busted out into "So Lonely" my jaw dropped. He absolutely nailed it. Amazing.
He slaughtered it and should stick to pop songs
Timmy G Xq
@@bbdd2145 Not quite dude...he blew the room away....
@@bbdd2145 Wtf do you think "So lonely" is? if not a pop song? You want to hear someone "slaughter it"? Listen to Sting on the Police reunion tour. Bruno Mars gave it life like Sting did 40 years ago nd it's not that Sting was too old he just acted like he was doing everyone a favor by being there.
@@bbdd2145 So Lonely is a pop/reggae song idiot
Spalding & Hancock were the highlight for me. Classy, haunting, emotional.. everything I love about Sting's music
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Very much in tune with his newer sound too...very impressive.
I'd be honored if some Sting fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal cover performances of WHY SHOULD I CRY FOR YOU and ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK on my YT channel in tribute to the master of lyricism and composition. Live acoustic with no digital editing. Thanks and peace.
AMEN TO THAT !!!
Edwin James Pope Agreed, they were phenomenal
The sadness in Stings eyes and face when Sprinsteen is singing the 1st chorus of the song. Very emotional
Back in the early 1980s I was a dairy production manager at Associated Dairies in Newcastle. One morning I went across to the canteen for breakfast - probably about 7am (I didn't always have time) - the canteen was busy (long trestle tables) but there was unaccountably lots of room around three guys having their breakfast. I sat down opposite them with a smile and a "morning". I was well into my breakfast by the time I realised that one of them was Sting. It turned out he was back home and was out helping his dad who was a bottled milk buyer customer of the dairy the other chap was his brother.
Holy crap, Lady Gaga with the pipes! Oh, and as I always find: that house band is killer!
Bruno killed this wow😍
Only Sting can make such dreary topics sound upbeat and make listeners want to dance. I thank God every day for Sting's existence. Every little thing "he" does is magic.
that whole tribute was SO well deserved. what an artist he is
Bruno Mars truly channeled Sting in "Message in a Bottle" here.
Bruno Mars has such an amazing talent
SOS from TRUDY 🎶
OMG Bruno mars definitely stole the show for me!. Damn he actually sounded a bit like sting!. I was shocked. This man always sings from the heart and he is a genius musician as well. Love him.
Sting's little sparkle drop on his eyes are everything.
Sting still looks soooo good
I came here for Esperaza Spalding and Bruno Mars. Phenomenal performances!!!! Love them both.
I'm not a huge Bruce Springsteen fan, I love a couple of his songs, but damn... what a great performance of I Hung My Head.
I saw Springsteen, Peter Gabriel, Sting at the same live performance in Torino Italy in 1988. I'm not a huge fan of Springsteen's but believe me that time he was way the best performer.
I kept thinking it was one song that he should've recorded. Even Sting wad totally impressed by his rendition.
Spectacular
Bruce Springsteen sings to Sting, this is great, freaking two legends.
I missed Eva Cassidy not being there with her splendid rendition of Fields of Gold. R.I.P. her beautiful soul❤
The man is beautiful -
If the Boss sings your Song...you´ve nailed it!
That was FANTASTIC. The best and the brightest were called in for this magnificent Tribute, which is apropos of Sting, who is among the best and brightest of 20th and 21st-century popular musical talents. How come I am just now seeing this nearly 10 years since this performance transpired? No matter: It was well worth the wait to see it now. 😀
I simply do love Sting. He is so unique. Totally amazing. A great artist.One of the best of all times.
not to mention hes handsome too
A young girl many years ago that I knew had a boyfriend called Sterling. I nicknamed him... Sting.
Music knows NO boundaries. It is simply human expression of emotion and beauty.
He can't touch Glenn Tilbrooks shoes !!!
Man I am too young but yes Sting is celestial
Gaga is really talented!!! :) This is great!
Pretty amazing Sting's wife still loves the song after all this time. She's like his biggest fan
I met Sting and Herbie Handcock (and a few other legends) on the same night at the 1990 Grammys!! Best night of my life
Awesome!
What an experience to hear Herbie and Esperanza!
We all know Bruno killed it on that stage!! Let's be real he was the best one.
He was in his element. Pitch and everything else perfect.
Back again to listen to him 🙌
Sting is such a gentleman,a good human being that deserves a tribute like this.God bless him!
Bloody hell....
I thought i had seen the motherload..after the Led Zeppelin honors show.. Such incredible emotion..
Then... i saw this one..
Damn..
I'm speechless.
Gaga gave it all.. the Boss brought such density.. incredible.
B. Mars very solid.. through such a different styled medley.
And man.. Esperanza Spalding just stole the show.. I mean.. such class.. grace.. and skill.. Such musicality ..
and those Herbie Hancock harmonic fills..
They did what was truly difficult to do -> make those songs even greater.
I feel priviliged .. to watch this.
thank you!
Did you notice the "bridge" between the two? Shane Fontayne on lead guitar (here without the dye job).
Fun to watch these Kennedy Center honorees fight back tears for being appreciated. A moment every artist dreams of.
Esparanza is beautiful! What a wonderful rendition of an incredible song.
Esperaza's version of "Fragile"is the best cover I've heard so far!
Didn't realize how much Bruno mars sounded like Sting till this performance. He did an outstanding job!!!
Lady Gaga, Sting, that was a magical musical moment.
Bruce Springsteen, just unbelievable, brilliant 👍
S C Yeah.....Bruce really opened a whole new vein of that song in his interpretation. He really found something there.
Shawn McLaughlin
Yes. Yes, exactly. Powerful version..! 👌🏻💪