I can't find a full list of performers. All I know so far are:
Gorillaz & Madonna (This should at least be interesting)
Kanye & Jamie (Been there)
U2 & Mary J Blige (Don't care)
Keith Urban & Faith Hill (Glad to see some country love)
Christina Aguilera & Herbie Hancock (Might be interesting, probably won't)

Gorillaz & Madonna - very interested to see this as well

I'm pretty sure the Madona & Gorillaz is just an animated video including an animated Madonna.

Animated Madonna > Real Madonna

The song they do together on Hancock's new album is fantastic. And I read that it's almost completely from her first take. I could live without her persona, but Aguilera can definitely sing, and Herbie's a legend, so this will be the performance I'm most interested in.

I'd like to see the Gorillaz + Kanye. (Let Foxx and Madonna get together and do their own lame thang.)

Looking around I see quite a few other performers. Though I'm not sure what has been confirmed or who has backed out, etc.

Green Day
Alicia Keys
Paul McCartney
Kelly Clarkson
Ciara
Coldplay
Sugarland
Bruce Springsteen
John Legend

I think many of the folks are going to pair up as well or just be in a tribute to Sly and The Family Stone.

I am looking forward to Green Day, U2, Coldplay, Paul McCartney, Gorillaz, and Kanye West.

Elvis Costello is performing. That's cool. Hope they let him do his own thing and don't pair him up with some shitheads.

Just read that Sly Stone is scheduled to perform (first public appearance in over 13 years)! Now THAT is something to get psyched about!!

Would be nice if it was real country and not "country pop" crap.

Shows like this were made for Tivo.

and HDTivo at that

think again. gorillaz were on the MTV Europe awards and they had 3-D holograms performing and a rapper (not sure if it was actually somebody from De la) performed live with them. it was kinda cool in a novelty kinda way. i don't know if i could stand an entire concert with just holograms, though.

-di doctor-

First I've heard about this, but this will definitely be what I am looking forward to the most. I love Elvis Costello. If he does get paired up I hope it isnt with any of the people I listed.Some country is better than no country.

just walked in the door and forgot this was on...I was mainly interested in the metal award...never thought I'd see bands like Slipknot, Rammstein or Shadow's Fall on an award show like that. Who won Metal?

Slipknot:



Thats the only highlight worth seeing right there.

Ummm... what the hell just came on the stage?

What the hell just happened? Sly Stone looked completley lost and then just walked off stage. But his voice (I think) was still singing....

guess we'll find out in another 13 or 19 years when he reappears in public

was fun to see Randy Jackson playing bass

No kidding. I started watching this about an hour or so after it originally started so I can zip past all the stuff I don't want to watch (which is a great deal of the show). Basically, I just saw Gorillaz, so now all I want to see is Elvis Costello.

But I just had to stop and look at Mariah Carey's boobies.

And Kanye wearing Kool Moe Dee sunglasses - are those back in style now?

Jay-Z, Linkin Park and .. very cool

this has been a really good show thus far. the performances, just about everyone has been really inspired. they have been amazing. the variety is great, though i would have liked to see some more rap by now.

Madonna is just amazing. to do what she does still now is a true testament. the Sly and FS tribute was awesome!

Mary J. and U2 have won the show so far with "One". Mary J. is just off the hook incredible. something about her performaces always brings me to tears (this being the 2nd, the 1st when she did "No More Drama" at I think was the MTV Video Awards some years back, but don't hold me to that).

i have really enjoyed the show so much thus far. keep it coming...

and why was Randy Jackson in the midst of the Family Stone?

any chance somone could do a recap of who performed and what they did?....although I guess it will be in the papers tomorrow