Mick Jagger joins U2 for Rock Hall concert finale

Once-in-a-lifetime team-ups were in abundance once again on Friday (October 20th) at Madison Square Garden for the second and final night of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 25th Anniversary concerts. Headlining night two of the Anniversary shows were U2, Metallica, Aretha Franklin, Jeff Beck, Ozzy Osbourne, Lou Reed, and Ray Davies.

Among the special unannounced guests were Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Gibbons, Patti Smith, and the Black Eyed Peas.

Performer highlights included:

Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox trading vocals on "Chain Of Fools," Franklin performing "New York, New York," and "Think" with Lenny Kravitz.

Jeff Beck, who was sitting in for an ailing Eric Clapton, performing the Beatles' "A Day In The Life," the Impressions' "People Get Ready" with Sting, and "Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady" with Billy Gibbons.

Alongside their own songs, Metallica played house band for such legends as Lou Reed, backing him on the Velvet Underground classics "Sweet Jane" and "White Light/White Heat," Ozzy Osbourne on Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" and "Paranoid," along with Ray Davies on the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" and "All Day And All Of The Night."

U2 teaming up with Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith for their "Because The Night," Springsteen for "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," "Where Is The Love" with the Black Eyed Peas, "Gimme Shelter" with Mick Jagger and Fergie, with Jagger duetting with Bono on "Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of."

Mick Jagger says that even after all these years performing live, he faces an element of the unknown every time he hits the stage: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "You never really know what's gonna happen. You never know what the audience is gonna be like, you never know how they're gonna behave, you, you expect them to do certain things, but they don't always do that, and you don't always do the same things that you've done the night before. That's what brings you into live playing, what makes live playing so interesting."

Highlights of both night's Madison Square Garden concerts will be part of an HBO four-hour broadcast on November 29th at 8 p.m.
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