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NEW YORK - U2 from three generations of chart-toppers - Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen and the Black Eyed Peas - on stage with them Friday evening Mix and Match Magic at Madison Square Garden. Metallica's thunder with Lou Reed and Ray Davies. It was the second of two concerts to mark the 25th Celebrate anniversary of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and to be published in an HBO special on the weekend of Thanksgiving, see. During the configuration of U2 Bono has been waxing poetic on the mental, physical and political power of rock 'n' roll, until the boss finally had enough. "Let's have some fun with it," said Springsteen. They played U2's "I Still Have not Found What I'm Looking For" with Bono and Springsteen labor and call-response vocals during the last stanza. U2 as headliners for four hours of music. True to the spirit of the Rock Hall events brought to the producers unusual pairings of artists honoring influences: Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox Lenny Kravitz came on stage and sing out to Sting "People Get Ready" with Jeff Beck. Jagger, the song "Stuck In A Moment You Can not Get Out Of" by U2 and a duet with Fergie of Black Eyed Peas performed on "Gimme Shelter". Jagger microphone stuck in his black belt like a mini-skirt Fergie approached. U2 in the background was, the world's most expensive "house band", as I, as Jagger. Weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs …," joked Bono. U2 authority invoked if all left the scene and closed the show, but with "Beautiful Day." Only the most beautiful music show is not perfect: U2, Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith invite you need, or more if "They have mutilated their version of" Because The Night ". You need almost one third, while Smith ed rats start signal. METALLICA spent a joy, just from the crowd in New York during the playback of video from Mariano Yankees' Rivera behind them during the "Enter Sandman". The song is played at Yankee Stadium when Rivera enters a game. Metallica paid tribute to the influences of songs from Bob Seger and the Queen. Singer James Hetfield stated fear that if the band Rock Hall officials suggested that the artists share the stage. "We are not the kind most jam band," he said. "We are a kind of tight little unit. We do not let many people in" The election was no surprise: Ozzy Osbourne, and he sang "Paranoid" and "Iron Man". Others were less obvious, but extremely well run, in terms of volume. Reed New York had a muscular support of "Sweet Jane" and Davies was the type of 'riffs that he was not on the Kinks' You Really Got Me "and" All Day and All of the Night ". We do not know what to think about it first saw, "said Hetfield About the session Davies." We are fully trained. "Jerry Lee Lewis began the show with his hit" Great Balls of Fire. "Half a century earlier, could He has a few jumps or kicking furniture here slowly stopped, he pushed the piano bench at the end of the song. Aretha Franklin was a hard nut to the introduction of a song like "left for those of you who don 't feel it enough respect "- and then a show of" Ragtime sang. "She introduced her band and drew a blank on the name of his guitar. Lennox, she barely noticed when they set the stage for" Chain of Fools .. She still has a thunderous voice, though. And finally, the public has their "respect".