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How ‘SNL’ Music Bookers Bring the Biggest Names in the Biz to NYC’s Most Exclusive Stage
How ‘SNL’ talent bookers bring the biggest names in music to 'Saturday Night Live.'
(On Saturday, NBC re-airs the first-ever episode of the series, which featured Janis Ian and Billy Preston as musical guests.) In the midst of the madness, two people who help Saturday Night Live book its musical talent gamely hopped on a Zoom call with Billboard to discuss how they go about bringing singers, rappers and bands to the SNL soundstage. Sometimes people aren’t in an album cycle and they really do have this incredible performance, but it costs half a million dollars and they don’t want to pay out of pocket for that.
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