One a yr, a delightfully random assortment of stars descends upon New York’s Beacon Theatre for the annual Love Rocks profit. In 2024, the present included the Foo Fighters’ cowl of Wings’ “Stay And Let Die.” This yr’s profit went down Thursday evening, and its luminaries included Cher, Beck, and Phish’s Trey Anastasio. Jesse Malin, who just lately returned to performing whereas recuperating from a stroke, was up onstage. So have been individuals like Alicia Keys, Michael McDonald, Peter Frampton, Grace Bowers, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, the Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart, and comedians Tracy Morgan and Alex Edelman, amongst others. The evening ended with the entire members coming onstage for an all-star tackle Stevie Surprise’s deathless 1973 basic “Larger Floor.” Watch a fan video of that efficiency under.
Earlier within the present Cher, dressed as Elvis Presley, sang Marc Cohn’s “Strolling In Memphis.”
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Right here’s Alicia Keys saluting the late Roberta Flack by singing the Fugees’ model of “Killing Me Softly With His Music“:
Jesse Malin joined Ivan Neville for a canopy of the Rolling Stones’ “Heartbreaker (Doo Doo Doo),” and he devoted it to the late David Johansen. Right here’s that:
And right here’s Tracy Morgan opening the entire thing up:
