Next Jeff Beck stepped out in signature sleeveless sequined shirt, red pants, and white kerchief.
and Jimmie Vaughan played Guy mainstay “The Things That I Used to Do,” and Tracy Chapman did the bruising, bluesy version of “Hound Dog” that Guy played with Big Mama Thornton when they toured together. The tributes opened with Robert DeNiro calling Hoffman a “world-class, colossal, spectacular pain in the ass” for raising the bar for actors everywhere with stellar performances in Death of a Salesman, The Graduate and Midnight Cowboy, among other films, before adding, “You make me proud to be an actor.” Liev Schreiber, actor Billy Connolly and Naomi Watts, each of whom had worked with Hoffman, also offered tributes.Īfter the tribute to Makarova, which included several ballet performances, Morgan Freeman came out to praise Buddy Guy, saying he “made a new music that no one had ever heard before.” Gary Clark Jr.
“I lost my virginity to the first two minutes of ‘Stairway to Heaven’ and spent the next 11 minutes of it apologizing.” “As a performer, the last thing you want to do is bomb in front of Led Zeppelin,” he said. The 10 Wildest Led Zeppelin Legends, Fact-Checked The Zeppelin tribute, the night’s longest, was saved for last, though the rock gods’ presence was noted throughout the evening, as when Ray Romano opened his tribute to Letterman by acknowledging his nerves. Zeppelin’s three surviving members, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page, sat down the row from President and Michelle Obama in the balcony, next to the other honorees, all wearing the rainbow-colored sash and medal that had been given at a White House ceremony hours earlier. Other honorees included blues trailblazer Buddy Guy, ballerina Natalia Makarova, David Letterman and Dustin Hoffman. Sunday night as the band received the Kennedy Center Honors in the annual gala tribute, to be broadcast on CBS December 26th. A generation of acolytes including Jack Black, the Foo Fighters, Kid Rock, Lenny Kravitz and Heart paid hard-rocking tribute to Led Zeppelin in Washington D.C.
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