In celebration of Saturday Night time Stay’s fiftieth anniversary, a number of tasks are within the works to mark this main milestone. Except for a four-part docuseries titled “SNL50: Past Saturday Night time,” NBC can be producing a documentary on the lengthy listing of musical visitors which have carried out on the present during the last 50 years.
Set to be directed by Questlove, “Girls & Gents… 50 Years of SNL Music” will dive into this system’s wealthy musical historical past. “Everybody is aware of probably the most well-known SNL appearances, whether or not it’s Elvis Costello, Prince or the Beastie Boys, however they’re the tip of an enormous iceberg…” Questlove stated, talking in regards to the venture. “The method of going again by the unimaginable archival footage was like being in a time machine, DeLorean or different. I’m so completely happy I went on the journey and now get to share it with everybody.”
The three hour movie, which premieres on January 27, 2025, will function an enormous listing of musicians and artists, together with former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger, Rage Towards the Machine’s Tom Morello, Paul Simon, Jack White, Elvis Costello, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish and Finneas, Justin Timberlake, and plenty of extra.
Although it’s unclear when Dave Grohl’s interview was filmed, his look within the documentary will mark his first televised look since he introduced this previous September that he fathered a baby exterior of his marriage.
Grohl has a protracted historical past with SNL, as he holds the report for because the present’s most frequent musical visitors with sixteen appearances since 1992, having carried out a number of occasions with Nirvana, Foo Fighters, and as a particular visitor.
