Lenny Kravitz played a mid-afternoon expansion slot at today's (August 16) V Festival - covering tracks by both Pink Floyd and Michael Jackson.
Performing at the Staffordshire situation on the V Stage, the rocker came onstage at 4.35pm (BST) sporting a black leather jacket, dark glasses and a black Flying V guitar.
Kravitz was joined on stage by 2 trumpeters, a saxophonist, full band and a guitar player - wHO bore a stunning resemblance to Guns N Roses legend, Slash, with his black elevation hat and curly mop up of hair.
A large crowd braved the afternoon showers, however, to catch a glimpse of the New York rocker and were treated to a place including 1991 single 'Always On The Run' and his cover up of The Guess Who's 'American Woman'.
Kravitz, kept his shades on until launch into huge hit 'It Ain't Over Til It's Over', a huge dearie with the crowd.
Then during next song, 'Dancin' Til Dawn', Kravitz said: "You're just having a good time today aren't you? - so keep terpsichore. I wager you like me like those old records from the late 70s and early 80s."
The crowd cheered before Kravitz mixed up the path with 'Another Brick In The Wall (Pt II)' by Pink Floyd and Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean' - acquiring crowd to chant back.
Kravitz concluded on his one UK chart-topper, 1999's 'Fly Away' and then 'Let Your Love Come Down', which saw him approach down to the front of the crowd to shake hands with his fans.
Lenny Kravitz played:
'Bring It On'
'Always On The Run'
'Dig In'
'Fields Of Joy'
'It Ain't Over Til It's Over'
'Dancin' Til Dawn'
'I'll Be Waiting'
'American Woman�??
'Fly Away'
'Let Your Love Come Down'
Keep checking NME.COM for the latest newsworthiness, pictures, videos and blogs live from both V Festival Chelmsford and V Festival Staffordshire all weekend.
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To pop up music fans, keyboardist Jan Hammer is best known for his work on the soundtrack of the fashionable '80s hook series Miami Vice. But Hammer also achieved considerable success in the jazz fusion earth, both on his have and as a hire member of John McLaughlin's fabled Mahavishnu Orchestra. Though jazz purists oftentimes objurgate major portions of his solo make, Hammer has undeniably left wing his mark, both musically and commercially.
A native of Prague, in what was then Czechoslovakia, Hammer was born into a musical family (on April 17, 1948) and began perusal forte-piano at eld four. By historic period 14, he was working with a touring and recording jazz tout ensemble that likewise included future Weather Report member Miroslav Vitous. Hammer studied theory and composition at the Prague Academy of Muse Arts, just when the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, he emigrated to the U.S. After attention the Berklee School of Music, he landed a yearlong touring fight with Sarah Vaughan as both keyboardist and conductor. In 1970, Hammer settled in Manhattan and recorded as a sideman with Elvin Jones and Jeremy Steig. The following yr, he joined the Mahavishnu Orchestra, appearance on landmark merger albums like The Inner Mounting Flame and Birds of Fire. After the group disbanded at the end of 1973, Hammer reunited with Mahavishnu violinist Jerry Goodman for the album Like Children (1974). Hammer's official solo debut came with 1975's The First Seven Days, and he assembled a financial support unit called the Jan Hammer Group for the supporting enlistment. The Hammer Group recorded prolifically over the future deuce age, including collaborations with guitarist Jeff Beck, and their blade of fusion shifted towards R&B-styled grooves. After 1978's Melodies, Hammer disbanded the mathematical group and recorded a true solo album, Black Sheep, playing all the instruments himself. In short order, though, he formed some other financial support striation, this one called just Hammer.
The early '80s establish Hammer operative with, among others, Al DiMeola (Galvanic Rendezvous) and Journey guitar player Neal Schon (Untold Passions and Here to Stay), as well as encouraging Jeff Beck in the studio. Hammer was becoming increasingly involved in pop/rock session collaborations, and by 1984, he had already stirred into composing for television and celluloid as well, debuting as a soundtrack composer with the film A Night in Heaven. His big break in this arena came when the producers of a new MTV-style police force series called Miami Vice tapped him as weekly score composer. When a soundtrack album was released in 1985, including several Hammer compositions as well as sway songs featured in the serial, Hammer's drive opening musical theme music off number peerless on the pop singles charts, the start TV theme to do so since 1976. The album was a worldwide success, and "Miami Vice Theme" south Korean won Hammer iI Grammys (Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Instrumental Composition).
Hammer remained involved with Miami Vice until 1988, when he retired to upstate New York to make a home studio and deliver to solo recording. The first result was Snapshots, issued in 1989, another on-key solo record album on which Hammer performed every note himself. Subsequently, Hammer rededicated himself to soundtrack composition, including 1992's acclaimed computer-animation project Beyond the Mind's Eye. 1994's Drive became Hammer's first non-soundtrack recording in v age; for the remainder of the decennium, Hammer continued his profitable work for TV, movie, commercials, and even video games.
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