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Super Bowl Halftime Shows Over the Years: Beyonce, Prince & More!
Headlining the Super Bowl Halftime Show is nary game. After all, it requires a batch of hard enactment to present a philharmonic spectacular that rivals the large game's action.
Just look at Lady Gaga, who virtually took her 2017 show to caller heights erstwhile she kicked disconnected the full matter dangling from ceiling astatine Houston's NRG Stadium. Complete with a drone show, pyrotechnics and aggregate costume changes, the performance was—to borrow a few words from the Mother Monster—"brilliant, incredible, amazing, show-stopping, spectacular, ne'er the same, wholly unique, wholly not ever been done before."
And who tin forget Beyoncé's 2016 extravaganza with Coldplay and Bruno Mars? Having spent months training with a creation troupe beforehand, the "Formation" singer's mentation paid disconnected erstwhile she delivered a ***flawless show, adjacent effortlessly recovering from a flimsy slip onstage during a peculiarly hard portion of her choreography.
Seeing however the Super Bowl ever brings retired the champion and brightest stars, it's nary astonishment that the epic collaboration betwixt NSYNC, Aerosmith, Britney Spears, Mary J. Blige and Nelly backmost successful 2001 is inactive being talked astir today. As Lance Bass precocious told E! News, "It decidedly was 1 of the champion weekends of my life."
"I'm a immense shot fan, truthful conscionable being a Super Bowl unsocial was truthful special. But to beryllium capable to bash the halftime show—and besides bash the halftime amusement with my favourite set Aerosmith—was conscionable a magical, magical weekend," the erstwhile boybander added. "It was conscionable an epic, epic show."
Now, Rihanna is conscionable a time distant from taking the signifier astatine the 2023 Super Bowl successful what's definite to beryllium another show-stopper. In existent Bad Gal RiRi fashion, the popular prima precocious joked that she's already "pre gaming" for the large event.
But earlier the Kansas City Chiefs look disconnected against the Philadelphia Eagles connected Feb. 12, instrumentality a look backmost astatine past memorable Super Bowl Halftime Shows.
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2020
Jennifer Lopez and Shakira made past with their show astatine the 2020 Super Bowl, becoming the archetypal 2 Latinas to pb a halftime performance. Lopez adjacent had the accidental the stock a saccharine infinitesimal connected the signifier with her child, Emme, performing unneurotic successful beforehand of the ample crowd.
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2017
Lady Gaga made rather the content astatine the 2017 Super Bowl erstwhile she dropped successful from the entity astatine the NRG Stadium successful Houston. Complete with pyrotechnics and aggregate costume changes, the show featured electrical renditions of her hits "Poker Face," "Born This Way," "Telephone," "Just Dance," "Million Reasons" and "Bad Romance."
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2015
Katy Perry attracted the largest assemblage successful the past of Super Bowl halftime shows with a powerhouse medley that included "Roar," "Teenage Dream" and "Firework" with appearances from Lenny Kravitz and Missy Elliot.
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2014
Joined by peculiar guests The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bruno Mars brought the funk to Super Bowl XLVIII with smash hits similar "Locked Out of Heaven" and "Just the Way You Are."
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2013
Beyoncé's show featured a medley of songs and astonishing dancing, but 1 unforgettable infinitesimal was an epic, albeit brief, Destiny's Child reunion!
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2012
Madonna's powerhouse show (including her hits "Give Me All Your Luvin," "Vogue," "Like a Prayer" and more) was almost upstaged my M.I.A.'s mediate finger. Almost.
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2011
The Black Eyed Peas had a pugnacious enactment to travel aft The Who killed it successful 2010. But the Grammy-winning radical brought down the location during the Super Bowl XLV halftime amusement with their hits "I Gotta Feeling," "Boom Boom Pow" and "Let's Get It Started."
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2010
The Who's pb vocalist Roger Daltrey and pb guitarist Pete Townshend added immoderate superior stone n' rotation to Super Bowl XLIV.
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2009
Jennifer Hudson belted retired the National Anthem similar lone a Dreamgirl could astatine Super Bowl XLIII successful Tampa.
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2007
From "Purple Rain" to "Let's Go Crazy," Prince brought the enactment to Florida during Super Bowl XLI.
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2006
The Rolling Stones were dishing retired plentifulness of restitution during the Super Bowl XL halftime amusement with their classical stone hits "Start Me Up," "Rough Justice" and "I Can't Get No Satisfaction."
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2005
Paul McCartney rocked retired during the Super Bowl XXXIX halftime show, playing a medley of songs including "Live and Let Die" and the Beatles deed "Hey Jude."
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2004
Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's infamous Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show made headlines astir the world.
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2003
Beyoncé is nary alien to the large game. She got her Latin flare connected with Carlos Santana during the Super Bowl XXXVII pregame amusement and sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" astatine Super Bowl XXXVIII the pursuing year.
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2003
No uncertainty Super Bowl XXXVII's halftime amusement was going to beryllium a deed erstwhile Gwen Stefani joined Police frontman Sting onstage for a duet of "Message successful a Bottle."
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2002
Bono and the boys performed 3 of their deed songs erstwhile U2 deed the signifier for a peculiar 9/11 tribute show during Super Bowl XXXVI.
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2001
Super Bowl XXXV began successful existent boy-band manner with a Backstreet Boys rendition of the nationalist anthem.
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2001
Rock gods met popular superstars midgame astatine Super Bowl XXXV erstwhile Aerosmith was joined by 'N Sync, Britney Spears and Mary J. Blige for a star-studded halftime show of "Walk This Way."
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2000
Phil Collins delivered with his show of "Two Worlds" during Super Bowl XXXIV successful Atlanta.
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2000
Christina Aguilera and Enrique Iglesias helped entertain millions of fans with their show of "Celebrate The Future Hand successful Hand."
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