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34 | Rolling Stone | February 2020

Pop’s 2020 Vision

The Grateful Dead have been doing legendary

New Year’s Eve shows for 50 years, and they did not

disappoint when it came time to truck on into 2020.

Dead & Company opened their second decade of

existence at the Chase Center in San Francisco with

an NYE epic, bringing on dancers dressed as 1920s

flappers and lifting Ken Kesey’s daughter Sunshine and

Jerry Garcia’s daughter Trixie above the crowd inside

a miniature biplane from which the pair doused the

crowd with confetti. Meanwhile, centuries and galaxies

away in time and culture, human dancing bear Post

Malone rang in the New Year in front of millions of

revelers in Times Square, capping off the 47th edition of

Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, which included

performances by Sam Hunt, Alanis Morissette, and

BTS. The K-pop boy band is about to release Map of the

Soul: 7 and will be on tour later this year.

RANDOM QUOTE

“Got that

experimental

throat

surgery that

lets me sing

barbershop

quartets

without having

to make three

friends.”

—Conan O’Brien on Twitter

 WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE
Alice Cooper hosted his annual charity event, the
Christmas Pudding fundraiser, in Phoenix, where he was
joined by the Alice Cooper Group, Rob Halford of Judas
Priest, and Johnny Depp, who plays with Cooper in their L.A.
band, the Hollywood Vampires. The pair also auctioned off
a custom guitar (which went for $43,000) and performed a
memorable version of David Bowie’s “Heroes.”

Random Notes

 OFFSET TAKES THE CAKE

Offset celebrated his birthday in L.A. with a Call of Duty cake, a feast

catered by Popeyes, a room full of strippers, and his wife, Cardi B, who

encouraged the evening’s performers by shouting, “Make that big

booty work!” Cardi is reportedly putting the finishing touches on her

new album, which she says will be called Tiger Woods, “because

remember when everybody was talking shit on Tiger Woods... and

then he fucking came and won that green jacket?”

UNCLE

BILL’S BAND

NBA great Bill

Walton took the

Dead stage with

Wavy Gravy.

NEW YORK’S

FINEST

LL Cool J

performed a

medley of his

hits in Times

Square.

K-POP BALL DROP

BTS (pictured with

Post Malone) wowed

fans who waited

hours in the cold to

watch them play.