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«Super Bowl», from Michael Jackson to Lady Gaga: performances gone down in history

On the night between Sunday and Monday, when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers take on the Kansas City Chiefs in the most followed sporting event in the world, it will be The Weeknd to animate it Interval Show. The singer, to whom the Grammys did not want to pay any recognition, will perform alone, collecting an extraordinary legacy. Because the Super Bowl is sport and spectacle, it is the immense “yes” of every artist who has accepted for one night to become the incarnation of pop.

The Super Bowl, which estimates say to be watched by over a third of the American population, more than a hundred million people, has been able to perfectly combine business with pleasure.

And, in 1993, with the hiring of Michael Jackson, has given an indelible twist to its narrative. In the exact year that the king of pop hit the stage, first after a long line of more anonymous bands, the show has changed. The music has changed. The greatest English-speaking artists competed to succeed each other on stage, in the Intermission Show. THE Rolling Stones, Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé, extraordinary in his 2013 concert. Then, Prince, according to CBS the best ever in Super Bowl history. A story that, in the gallery above, we tried to retrace.

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