The Time perform at "Let's Go Crazy: The GRAMMY Tribute To Prince" | Photo: Monty Brinton/CBS/Getty Images. */. “His Grammy appearances, though few, were historic, and it’s with mixed feelings that we approach this opportunity to celebrate the amazing legacy he left us. ', 'And when it comes to performing, I'm sorry, but he still has everyone beat,' she added. Women including St. Vincent, Susanna Hoffs, Mavis Staples, Sheila E and even Misty Copeland highlight the Prince salute — but beware Philip Bailey's slayer falsetto, too. Naomi Campbell On GRAMMY Salute To Prince: "I Really Wanted Him To Have The Celebration He Deserved". On the fourth anniversary of the seven-time GRAMMY winner and cultural icon's death, the Recording Academy and some very special celebrity friends celebrated his life and musical treasure trove. GRAMMY Salute to Prince Airs Tonight on CBS April 21, 2020 by Harriet Kaplan Today marks the fourth anniversary of Prince’s untimely and still “controversial” death from an accidental Fentanyl overdose from pain medication after years of battling chronic hip pain in an elevator in his Paisley Park home and recording studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota.… The "Bonita" singer took on the title track off Prince's 1982 album1999 and brought his energy on stage during the "Let's Go Crazy: The GRAMMY Salute To Prince" featuring John Legend, Common, Foo Fighters, Earth, Wind & Fire, H.E.R, and more. If you can’t watch live, FuboTV also comes with 30 hours of cloud DVR space, as well as a 72-hour look-back feature, which allows you to watch most new shows on-demand within three days of their conclusion, even if you don’t record them. The Grammys Salute to Prince special: John Legend, Sheila E., Usher and H.E.R. Some of the stars, like Miguel, Juanes and Usher, are content to try on Prince’s pantsuits for size — figuratively speaking — with recreations of his sheer sex appeal, and that’s a decent stunt in itself if you have the moves to pull it off, as they nearly do. It reads, “Nothing more ugly in the whole wide world than intolerance [between] black, white, red, yellow, boy or girl. Sitting at a space-age white Roland piano, H.E.R. The shimmering Prince tribute concert, "Let's Go Crazy: The GRAMMY Salute To Prince," featured powerhouse numbers from Foo Fighters, Beck, Common, Earth, Wind & Fire, H.E.R., Mavis Staples, St. Vincent, John Legend, Miguel, Coldplay's Chris Martin, the Bangles' Susanna Hoffs and many more. ET on Tuesday, April 21. Here is how to watch 'Lets Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince' online free without cable. returned to the stage, this time behind the piano, singing The Beautiful Ones, while dancer Misty Copeland performed an interpretive dance to the track. Let’s Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince This new special, taped in January at the L.A. Convention Center, features an all-star lineup of musical artists in a salute to the musician. (Photo by Monty Brinton/CBS ©2020 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. and Gary Clark Jr., who sang a rousing rendition of Prince's iconic classic Let's Go Crazy. After a brief clip of Prince's iconic Super Bowl halftime show performance in 2007 (considered by many to be one of the greatest of all time) Gary Clark Jr. returned to sing The Cross with Sheila E on the drums. Not wanting to keep the audience in their seats too long, Morris Day, Jam, Lewis and The Time brought the energy back up with a medley of some of The Time's biggest bops written by Prince: "Jungle Love," "Cool" and "The Bird." St. Vincent then took the stage to sing Controversy, paying tribute to 'The Purple One' with a light purple ruffled top, purple panties and white knee-high boots while showing off her guitar chops on the track. As for the moments in which a star is asked to basically do something identical to what Prince already did to perfection, those can be a little less interesting. Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images. It’s going to take the young people to fix it this time. Gary returns: After a brief clip of Prince's iconic Super Bowl halftime show performance in 2007 (considered by many to be one of the greatest of all time) Gary Clark Jr. returned to sing The Cross with Sheila E on the drums, Sheila sings: Fred Armisen took the stage, stating he was in 'awe' of all the performers, before introducing the 'queen of percussion' and the musical director, Sheila E, who sang America in a bright yellow pantsuit. Sheila E, who also serves as the show's musical director, introduced a rendition of Little Red Corvette by Usher, clad in a glittering jacket a white silk shirt and black pants. Also feeling like an inevitable-but-not-inevitable pick is Prince pal Mavis Staples, who is probably the only person who should ever be let near “Purple Rain” this late in that over-covered song’s game. "Prince's music means so much to all of us," she added. on Aug. 9, 2014, with the lyrics,“Does anybody hear us pray?/For Michael Brown or Freddie Gray/ Peace is more than the absence of war.”, “The system is broken. It airs Tuesday, April 21, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. If he’d only lived a few more years, surely he would have been inviting St. Vincent to come jam at Paisley Park, too. Want To Support Protesters And Black Lives Matter Groups? is one of these artists. Next on deck during the show was another act featuring beautifully articulated choreography, this time by FKA Twigs and Usher, from their slick 2020 GRAMMY performance (watch above) of "Little Red Corvette," When Doves Cry" and "Kiss." His Royal Badness — regardless of how you identify him, he is indisputably one of the greatest musical virtuosos of all time,” said Deborah Dugan, President/CEO of the Recording Academy, in a statement. Be the first to find out about GRAMMY nominees, winners, important news, and events. Prince was presented with the Recording Academy’s President’s Merit Award in 1985. Does anyone know how I could catch this in the UK? The night came to a close with a star-studded rendition of Baby I'm a Star, with the iconic backdrop of Minneapolis' First Avenue rising up in the background. But by far the most electric moment of the night, I thought, was Wendy Melvoin’s stunning guitar solo during “Purple Rain.” The legendary Mavis Staples, another Prince collaborator, sang a moving, lived-in rendition backed by the Revolution, of which Melvoin was a key member. Jam and Lewis, who got their start as part of Prince-formed act the Time, brought the moves with that classic group, while Sheila served up her epic drumming during the majority of numbers, as the bandleader of the powerhouse backing band. That's really important," Sheila E. said backstage. On Tuesday night, the fourth anniversary of Prince’s death, CBS aired a two-hour special called Let’s Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince. © 2020 - Recording Academy. Chris Martin and Susanna Hoffs performed “Manic Monday,” which Prince gave to Hoffs’s band the Bangles. GRAMMY Rewind: Jennifer Lopez (In The Green Versace Dress) & David Duchovny Present Best R&B Album At The 2000 GRAMMYs, "To me, Prince is music. She added that words like genius and prolific aren't 'quite there.