Kennedy Center Honors – Bettye LaVette – Love Reign
July 30th, 2009
Bettye LaVette’s stunning take on The Who classic, “Love Reign O’er Me” at the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors. Music and arrangement by Rob Mathes.
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The artist who are honored hear choose the performs that they want to see perform their pieces. So the WHO do like this. ha
WAIT. Is that the drummer from Pendulum?
FABULOUS ———– Bettye LaVette has so much passion in her voice — a voice that is sooooooo powerful!!!!
Thank you.
5 stars!!!
Unbelievable. And I’m a purist Who fan who usually cringes at others’ unaccomplished renditions of Who songs. Her performance is remarkable.
Wow! She is such a soulful singer. Gives me goosebumps!
If I had a real bad crack problem this would be OK. Clean and sober however, it sucks.
I dunno what the hell hell is wrong with some of you people, this is a fantastic preformance, wouldn’t know good music if it bit you in the ass
I’d rather see Coco the gorilla sing this…. wait a minute never mind.
You are an IDIOT!!!!
Bettye LaVette, AWESOME!!!!
SING BETTYE !
Here’s the problem…it sucked. It was horrible by Who standards. By the way were they supposed to act like they hated it. If you watched the whole show The Who were way more blown away by the members of the New York firemen and police who served during 911. Much more of a powerful moment than this boob puting her own rendition to a Who classic and ruining it. If you are going to cover a Who classic, keep it in The Who spirit and not a bunch of babble like this was.
well the actual Who members appear to really enjoy it, so what’s the problem?
On the contrary. This performance clearly illustrates the absolute transcendental quality of Townshend’s work.
All Who fans should be insulted by this ridiculous effort. This is one of the worst covers by the Who I’ve ever seen. At least Pearl Jam’s covers of the Who are true to the Whos music. This is complete Who blasphemy.
Awesome! Gives me goose bumps. Does anyone know who the guitar player is?
This is horrible. Leave this song to the experts aka The Who.
A virtuoso performance.This is a standard for all remakes, take a great song, filter it through your own heart,mind,soul and spirit and blow them away. If not why redo any song!
Magnificent. No other words.
honey this is what’s real .. she tore it up!
The show was a tribute to the Who (among others), so it’s not like Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey were going to get up and leave. And it’s a good thing they didn’t. This was awesome and both Pete and Roger knew it!!
I don’t know if I wanted to perform a Who song while Pete sits in the audience
even streisand felt it