My first trip to Vegas and the very first show I had attended was this 1980 spectacular extravaganza. I also saw Liberace at the Stardust and once at the Flamingo. One hell of a showman he was.
Mister_Tibbs You are so fortunate to see him!!! I would pay anything to see him in person. What a spectacular man, his talent and beautiful life will live forever. 💕❤️🎹🎼
my grandmother took me when I was young to see Liberace and what a great show! Liberace was a fantastic showman! I didn't think much of it at tge time but years later I remember my grandma and her friends saying how "Dreamy" Liberace is and talking about how some lucky woman would snatch him up one day lol. Grandad said something about him being a "Fruit" which I didn't understand. I of course realized later he was gay and always wondered why that mattered to anyone. Wonderful memories of his show.
What??? Every professional performer does that. Even drugout rock and roll performers can play song after song playing hundreds of chords and notes if not thousands without sheet music..
He was gaudy as hell and larger than life, but he had the talent to justify it. He was easily one of the technically gifted piano players who ever lived. He could make a piano do anything he wanted.
My parents went to vesgas EVERY YEAR to see him..And there was never a missed show on the t.v. So when i saw this in such awful disarray i litterally bawled. His staurs are from paris..And those morroccon room tiles...well guess...Lol..I remember when The new owner bought it years ago..After telling a vlogger he was restoring it..I never thought it would happen..BLESS HIM!!!
@@GodsFavoriteBassPlyr So what do you do all day? Just look for people to pick from the comfort of your mother's basement? What do you do when you're not finding fault with the comments of people you'll never have to personally confront? Torture small animals?
@@cliffmcginnis3231 - Nope. The person who made the horribly disparaging remark about Liberace, and to whom I was responding.. has either deleted that comment .. or it was deleted for them. Thank you for bringing it to my attention .. I shall remove mine immediately. (and nOoooo..silly... I don't live in 'my mother's basement'. I live in YOUR mother's basement.)
❤️🎹Sometimes when I listen to him play, it brings tears to my eyes. His level of talent is out of this world. Nobody will ever be more talented, hilarious, glamorous, entertaining as Lee. Talk about a Legend. He is absolutely amazing. 🎹💕❤️👍
I’m more to the realization that that happy smile and taking your talents as is with a flair for flamboyant beauty and classical music and just doing your own thing is amazing! He is an inspiration to the meaning to doing your own thing . We all need that in our lives. If I’m ever depressed , I look up Liberace . He makes me smile
I couldn’t have put it better myself, even to the tears because that’s what I had at the end of this clip before reading your comment. Elvis may be king of rock but Liberace is King of the keys! I actually saw this show at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1981 and Liberace really was a genius pianist. I visited Las Vegas again in 2018 and thought his museum may be still open to the public. Unfortunately it isn’t and the modern Las Vegas generation do not even know about him! It was so sad that even the concierge had to google Liberace’s name. 👑🎹❤️
Sometime in the mid 80s, my grandfather taped a bunch of his LPs so I could have some good music to listen to on my new tape player. The only two I still remember were the Best of Liberace Vol. 1 and 2. I listened to those so much, I eventually wore them out. Liberace is still one of my favorite performers of all time.
Liberace and Prince were flamboyant. But, guess what? You have to have TALENT to back it up. Gimmicks are fun.....but Little Richard, Liberace, Prince......they had TALENT.
Ha....this is great. I worked as a "show line guard" in the Riviera security department at about the same time. My job was back stage, and at the dressing room. This was the exact same introduction he did at the Riv, but as I recall he had a VW Beetle with the same kind of mirror ball sparkle, and such. The Riv's stage was not as large as the Hitton's and I know that Rolls would have never fit. A lot of good times back then.
I was able to buy some of his jewelry reproductions from the Las Vegas museum when it was open, the piano ring, the candelabra ring, the amethyst ring as well as the first and second editions of the piano watch. A wealthy local woman had a moving sale and I was able to buy a gold Baroque cherub wall table she got from his estate sale...
"And this is my friend Scott Thorson" Should have been this is my gay lover Scott Thorson...but in those days he had to hide his sexuality..with little success..Everyone knew he was gay and nobody really cared..they saw him as the wonderful artist and showman he was..too bad he felt he needed to hide it...everyone loved him no matter what..Now he knows that!!! RIP
@@o2xb "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" "judge Ye not lest ye be judged" Luckily you don't get to decide who God loves or anyone else for that matter! More people loved Liberace than will every love you!! Think on that one...
You, Yes Y0U Missed the point intirely!!! Don't you know your music History? They Did meet; Liberachie Is the reason Elvis started wearing those jumpsuits!!! Scarves! Rings! How DO you Not know this??!
This coat is just a cloud of delightful confection!! The recreation of it in "Behind the Candelabra" was sad and disappointing! It was flat and volume-less!
THAT WHOLE MOVIE WAS A DISAPPOINTMENT. DOUGLAS LOOKED NOTHING LIKE LIBERACE AND DAMON THE LIBERAL DEMOCRAT LOOKED NOTHING LIKE SCOTT THORSON. THEY SHOULD HAVE USED UNKNOWNS WHO LOOKED LIKE THE CHARACTERS
My grandmother loved Liberance and was horrified when he was accused of being Gay .. but then she absolutely refused to believe that Doctior Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket were men in drag either. He was a great showman .. and could actually play the piano well .. and because didn't take himself seriously he was always fun to watch.
Dans les années 70 grande vedette a las vegas avait un conquérant très important au niveau des entrées a vegas le king elvis presley a l hotel hilton . Liberace avait beaucoups d admiration pour elvis .
Really, who couldn't see that this guy's was a queen people act like they didn't know it obvious but he was a true showman.... class he had that and style rip my boy....2019
I got to see Liberace once. That is the same exact entrance. He was awesome. I loved his show❣️
My first trip to Vegas and the very first show I had attended was this 1980 spectacular extravaganza. I also saw Liberace at the Stardust and once at the Flamingo. One hell of a showman he was.
Mister_Tibbs You are so fortunate to see him!!! I would pay anything to see him in person. What a spectacular man, his talent and beautiful life will live forever. 💕❤️🎹🎼
my grandmother took me when I was young to see Liberace and what a great show! Liberace was a fantastic showman! I didn't think much of it at tge time but years later I remember my grandma and her friends saying how "Dreamy" Liberace is and talking about how some lucky woman would snatch him up one day lol. Grandad said something about him being a "Fruit" which I didn't understand. I of course realized later he was gay and always wondered why that mattered to anyone. Wonderful memories of his show.
Just a natural great performer. He didn't force it or go way over the top it just came naturally.
No one could ever say Liberace ever went over the top
Natural performer , are you sure
@@arlenmargolin4868 low key, down to earth type.
Jesus that scene in the bathtub bizarre
How can such a fantastic pianist perform without any sheet notes? Liberace was an absolute genius!! ❤
What??? Every professional performer does that. Even drugout rock and roll performers can play song after song playing hundreds of chords and notes if not thousands without sheet music..
@@jeffsond thanks, I never knew that
I remember that TV show on Showtime in 1981. He sure got great humor and a wonderful performer. It's been 30 years since he past away. He's amazing!
He was gaudy as hell and larger than life, but he had the talent to justify it. He was easily one of the technically gifted piano players who ever lived. He could make a piano do anything he wanted.
He could make little boys do whatever they wanted to maybe not little but 16-year-olders anyway
Lol he wasn’t one of the most technically gifted. He was ok.
sorry, but he was not among the best piano players who ever lived, I can assure you. He was a good pianist and a great entertainer
@@arlenmargolin4868 He was one of the BIGGEST QUEENS of all time!! (loved young men)
by “left handed chauffeur” we all know what he REALLY meant…lol - poor Scott!
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Well, and back todays wethar...
Lol perfect
My parents went to vesgas EVERY YEAR to see him..And there was never a missed show on the t.v. So when i saw this in such awful disarray i litterally bawled.
His staurs are from paris..And those morroccon room tiles...well guess...Lol..I remember when The new owner bought it years ago..After telling a vlogger he was restoring it..I never thought it would happen..BLESS HIM!!!
Love the license plate - 88 KEYS
How could ever anyone NOT know that he was gay?
Liberace will always be remembered as one of the best performers ever.🎹🎵🎶💕❤
Of course.
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yes but his piano ability was not the greatest
And also for being one of the biggest queens of all time! (he loved young men)
Thank you for uploading these treasures such an amazing performer R.I.P Mr.showman ship
@@GodsFavoriteBassPlyr So what do you do all day? Just look for people to pick from the comfort of your mother's basement? What do you do when you're not finding fault with the comments of people you'll never have to personally confront? Torture small animals?
@@cliffmcginnis3231 - Nope. The person who made the horribly disparaging remark about Liberace, and to whom I was responding.. has either deleted that comment .. or it was deleted for them. Thank you for bringing it to my attention .. I shall remove mine immediately. (and nOoooo..silly... I don't live in 'my mother's basement'. I live in YOUR mother's basement.)
WOW listen to him play the piano. I mean it doesn't get better than that.
Camp is an understatement
He lived his life like the gay phantom of the opera
❤️🎹Sometimes when I listen to him play, it brings tears to my eyes. His level of talent is out of this world. Nobody will ever be more talented, hilarious, glamorous, entertaining as Lee. Talk about a Legend. He is absolutely amazing. 🎹💕❤️👍
Elton John will be
I’m more to the realization that that happy smile and taking your talents as is with a flair for flamboyant beauty and classical music and just doing your own thing is amazing! He is an inspiration to the meaning to doing your own thing . We all need that in our lives. If I’m ever depressed , I look up Liberace . He makes me smile
The lies about them cries 😂
I couldn’t have put it better myself, even to the tears because that’s what I had at the end of this clip before reading your comment. Elvis may be king of rock but Liberace is King of the keys! I actually saw this show at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1981 and Liberace really was a genius pianist. I visited Las Vegas again in 2018 and thought his museum may be still open to the public. Unfortunately it isn’t and the modern Las Vegas generation do not even know about him! It was so sad that even the concierge had to google Liberace’s name. 👑🎹❤️
@@nolanmurphy3159Elton John is not even close to this lev on the piano.
Duhhh
He was Las Vegas.....I recently saw his home and located his glass piano it was a thrill to see it.....thank you for sharing
Sometime in the mid 80s, my grandfather taped a bunch of his LPs so I could have some good music to listen to on my new tape player. The only two I still remember were the Best of Liberace Vol. 1 and 2. I listened to those so much, I eventually wore them out. Liberace is still one of my favorite performers of all time.
Wonder how many people got the joke about the "virgin fox" being hard to come by
THAT CROWD WAS ALL OVER 70 SO NONE OF THEM GOT IT. I WAS WORRYING YOU DID NOT GET IT EITHER.
I still don't get it. Can you maybe explain it to me please?
Thanks in advance
Can you explain it to me please?
Oh Yes. I Got It!! 😆 LOL!
I prefer British metal but let’s face it. Liberace was a fantastic showman and great at his craft.
The Only MILLIONAIR that can bragg and shiw off in such a humorous and graceful way..R.I.P.
I cried when he died..what a talented gifted and loving human being💞😘😘 I always felt bad that his mother was Augusta Gein's evil twin. LOVE YOU LEE!!
Scott Thorsen became his lover and when Liberace died, he was involved in the contesting of the Will etc. Courtroom drama followed L’s death.
Just a shame the crippling shyness held him back.
What a great talent! One of a kind!
Elton John eat your Heart out
ELTON JOHN COULD NOT TIE LIBERACES SHOES😲
I bet Liberace had better rings
Look like happy he is talking a bubble bath like a kid in the candy store
To much off good thing is wonderful ♥️🍭🍷🍾🌷🎂🍹🍬♥️
Look me over
Liberace and Prince were flamboyant. But, guess what? You have to have TALENT to back it up. Gimmicks are fun.....but Little Richard, Liberace, Prince......they had TALENT.
No comparisons!
Never to be replaced
I was lucky enough to see Liberace in person when he toured South Africa.. he was amazing.
My grandmother loved Liberace. She always used to say 'And he was so good to his mother!'
I heard he wasn’t openly gay and never came out in public. Watching this video, no one would ever think he’s gay 🙄
I’ll never understand the appeal of this guy.
Well, he did love large penises.
You're here, aren't you?
Hugs and kisses Liberace.
Phaedra Backer Lmfao
Ha....this is great. I worked as a "show line guard" in the Riviera security department at about the same time. My job was back stage, and at the dressing room. This was the exact same introduction he did at the Riv, but as I recall he had a VW Beetle with the same kind of mirror ball sparkle, and such. The Riv's stage was not as large as the Hitton's and I know that Rolls would have never fit. A lot of good times back then.
I was able to buy some of his jewelry reproductions from the Las Vegas museum when it was open, the piano ring, the candelabra ring, the amethyst ring as well as the first and second editions of the piano watch. A wealthy local woman had a moving sale and I was able to buy a gold Baroque cherub wall table she got from his estate sale...
Wow! You had some Treasures In your house!! And, On your hand! Those Rings!!
Such dedication and 100% accuracy hitting those keys every time.
The house is so over the top and gaudy. Reminds me of a 1970s era Dept store filled with Chinese decor
I will never see an entertainer that comes close to Lee in my lifetime.
I am much better!
I have never seen so much bad taste concentrated in 13 minutes :-)
I was 3 yrs old when I first saw him play piano.... and that look he gives when he plays always made me laugh !!! Rip Libs x
"And this is my friend Scott Thorson" Should have been this is my gay lover Scott Thorson...but in those days he had to hide his sexuality..with little success..Everyone knew he was gay and nobody really cared..they saw him as the wonderful artist and showman he was..too bad he felt he needed to hide it...everyone loved him no matter what..Now he knows that!!! RIP
how can you love a man who sins so greatly against God?
@@o2xb "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" "judge Ye not lest ye be judged" Luckily you don't get to decide who God loves or anyone else for that matter! More people loved Liberace than will every love you!! Think on that one...
@@chrisreed26 Depends on what you mean by love.
He was awesome!
His mansion was more of a museum with all the antiques he had in it
Check out on UA-cam how his mansion went in disaray after his,death
Vince Cardell was also a great piano player I had the pleasure of playing drums for seven years before we met Liberace.......
Elvis and him could have been best friends, exchanging outfits and jumpsuits |:P
You, Yes Y0U Missed the point intirely!!! Don't you know your music History? They Did meet; Liberachie Is the reason Elvis started wearing those jumpsuits!!! Scarves! Rings! How DO you Not know this??!
This coat is just a cloud of delightful confection!!
The recreation of it in "Behind the Candelabra" was sad and disappointing! It was flat and volume-less!
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THAT WHOLE MOVIE WAS A DISAPPOINTMENT. DOUGLAS LOOKED NOTHING LIKE LIBERACE AND DAMON THE LIBERAL DEMOCRAT LOOKED NOTHING LIKE SCOTT THORSON. THEY SHOULD HAVE USED UNKNOWNS WHO LOOKED LIKE THE CHARACTERS
Que espectáculo ,como no lo vi en las Vegas a mi Ídolo Liberace.😮
No one can replace you Liberace. ❤
Now I know where they got the personality of Rodger the alien on American Dad.
I can not imagine anyone else dressing like this and it work for them. Everything Liberace wears just wears well . . .
And ice- cold heart: All those foxes suffering their entire lives in small cages - to deliver furs for his vanity.
I have a full length beaver and my wife has a full Russian fox. They are dead and we appreciate it.
Those who say he wasn't a good pianist are full of ×÷=%!!!
Class...and what a good soul...
My grandmother loved Liberance and was horrified when he was accused of being Gay .. but then she absolutely refused to believe that Doctior Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket were men in drag either.
He was a great showman .. and could actually play the piano well .. and because didn't take himself seriously he was always fun to watch.
You cannot be " accused" of something that is not a crime....neither can one accuse the sky of being blue or the sun of being hot......
@@nondescript2892 Can I suggest that you get yourself a better dictionary
Remembering how much my mom and her friends enjoyed seeing Liberace performance in the late 70s, she spoke about it every now and then.
Liberace was class all the way 💜
Dans les années 70 grande vedette a las vegas avait un conquérant très important au niveau des entrées a vegas le king elvis presley a l hotel hilton . Liberace avait beaucoups d admiration pour elvis .
Thank you for the upload. Entertainer personified.
Check out the whole show on YOU TUBE or dvd, also stars Debbie Reynolds and Phyllis Diller.
Who wore it better. Liberace or Dietrich.
The video of him before his stage entrance looks like it was filmed before his plastic surgery
So odd he never married. Michael Douglas, that was for you. RIP.
And he successfully sued a newspaper in the 80s that claimed he was gay... haha!
It was a lawsuit in 1959 ( not 1980's) against the London Daily Mirror.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberace_v_Daily_Mirror
He successfully sued an English Tabloid in 1959.
Austin powers: liberachi was gay? "I didnt see that coming!"
Such talent style and aplomb. Bravo Lee RIP
how many in venue? seems filled but a lot of expenses incl back up orchestra to pay for.
He was made out of music. Every inch of his buddy…. Yeap
How about his hair; I mean straight, or should I say directly, out of bed.
Liberace vs Wayne Newton. Who wins best Law Vegas showman?
Wonderful. What else can we say?
Without question, this is what you call "flaming".
Such a lovely man 🇬🇧❤️👍
And now we have artists that make money from moving their ass
Ass is niice!
Bye, bye Scott. Start stretching…
As always, the great Scott Thorson as the “driver.”
He drove into Liberace many times.
@@1life744 Liberace...one the BIGGEST QUEENS of all time!! (he loved young men)
Maybe liberachi didnt have a valid drivers licence at the time?
He was magnificent. Incomparable.
Incomprable Squidward
I love those classy closet gays.
He wasn't closeted it was obvious
I’ve seen him perform 4 times in Warwick RI. I’ll never forget him!🎹
If you didn’t know he was a huge mo after seeing this, you’re clueless.
Hoping that thing was faux fur. Yuck.
Scott Thorson his underage boyfriend
Really, who couldn't see that this guy's was a queen people act like they didn't know it obvious but he was a true showman.... class he had that and style rip my boy....2019
And the chauffeur was his lover.😉
He always seems so cheerful,an act or the real thing?
Before my time but he seemed a really nice down to earth man beneath all the glam.
He was an excellent pianist, love his music.. ...so talented!
No he was not. Third rate musical performer like his patents
Welcher Familienvater Wärmigkeiten haben....................................!
That is his boyfriend scott who sued him
If I can speak modern speak about Liberace, he wore the bling but ACTUALLY had the talent to back it up
Once in a lifetime fantastic performer.
Did the Rolls leave a oil stain on the stage? 5:20
the kingdom of yankee kitsch
Wow wow wow 👏👏👏
Was a litle to hot in that coat ? For Vegas ?? Haa
An insanely lonely man.. sad really
Lowkey kind of creepy or is it just me?
ITS JUST YOU GO BACK IN THE CLOSET
This will get me some girls 🕺🤡
The king of bad taste.
He's soo gayy, and I just love it!!😂😂 The guy driving the Rolls was his boyfriend that eventually sued him
That's what I thought, too...
I wasn’t a fan of Liberace but boy, he’s warm and friendly with the audience. The love between him and his fans are mutual.
He was warm and friendly with young men!!
@@davidlast1370 Yeah, we get it : he was gay. If he were straight and enjoyed the company of young women you'd probably have nothing to say.
I was lucky to see him perform three times.
If the house in the video is the one in Las Vegas, it is abandoned today with cobwebs all over and weeds growing in the year. RIP Liberace.
When was the last time you were there? It was purchased by a man from the UK and restored.
once living bling bling