More surprisingly, the former recluse put together his own band and started performing impassioned, if not always seamless, concerts that include songs from every era of his career.
Will Gates, an impassioned singer, be performing too? "We're not saying yes, but it's hard to keep me off a mike!" he laughs.
Then Imagine Dragons performed the night's first medley, mixing up "Demons" and "Radioactive," an impassioned performance that should serve as a tryout for a headlining slot at a future KROQ Almost Christmas concert.
Joan Rivers dropped by to perform an impassioned soliloquy about why comedians are such masochists.
Immortal Technique performed at the Occupy May Day rally at Union Square in New York Tuesday, in arguably the most impassioned performance of the afternoon's lineup, which included Tom Morello, Dan Deacon and Das Racist.
A clearly heartfelt drama with three impassioned performances.
With his soaring rhetoric and impassioned oratory Obama performed brilliantly as a candidate.
Two months ago, at a tribute concert to Joni Mitchell, Diana Krall surprised everyone by forsaking her crisply emphatic jazz piano style to perform Ms. Mitchell's impassioned folk-pop ballad "A Case of You" without the usual support of bass and drums.
Stephen Johnson explores how Leipzig's thriving coffee society found its perfect counterpart in the music of J.S. Bach, and the orchestral suites which he performed amongst the clinking cups and impassioned conversations.
The 51-year-old rocker was wearing leather pants while performing in Stockholm, and during a particularly impassioned squat with his guitar, his pants ripped, resulting in his entire groin region being exposed.
