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The 11 Greatest Stories From The Greatest Night in Pop
Involving everything from Michael Jackson’s missing snake to Stevie Wonder’s Bob Dylan impersonation.
But the schedules of artists like Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Harry Belafonte, Bette Midler, Tina Turner, Billy Joel, and more were only in brief alignment due to the American Music Awards. After everyone took their spots, Kenny Loggins remembers Paul Simon joking, “Wow, if a bomb drops on this place, John Denver is back on top.” It wasn’t the first vision-related joke of the night — earlier, during an impromptu “Day-O” cover, a tribute to Harry Belafonte, Wonder scored big laughs when he swapped out some lyrics to sing about being “driven home by me or Ray.”
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