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  Seven Songs for the Week #96 - 5th Feb 24

  Jason Carty

  February 2025 is the official Saturday Night Live is 50 celebration month. There is a lot of stuff out there: four different documentaries about aspects of the show's production, an upcoming 3 hour primetime special, a 50th anniversary show in Radio City and on NBC last week was a Questlove film about 50 Years of Music on SNL. Expertly put together it told new and old stories. Watched it with the eldest teen and they were riveted. It's worth seeking out the opening mix alone. One of the curveballs was the 1986 episode where Philip Glass was the musical guest, performing this song. The episode that it came from was one of the few SNLs where they ditched the weekly formula and instead had a show directed by the actual Francis Ford Coppola. This episode was covered in a separate documentary about SNL's "weird" 11th season. Try to keep up.