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so more copies in the United States

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(applause)

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from the woman who was there in the beginning,

Linda Ronstadt.

(crowd cheering)

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forever may you fly.

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♪ Is gonna save me ♪

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♪ So open up, I'm climbing in ♪

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♪ We got to take it easy. ♪

(mic ends)

ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen,

multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy-winner Juanes,

(bd pling “Hotel California”)

♪ On a dark dest highy ♪

♪ Cool wind in my hair ♪

♪ Warm smell of colitas ♪

♪ Rising up through the air ♪

♪ Up ahead in the distance ♪

♪ I saw a shimmering light ♪

♪ My head grew heavy and my sight gredim ♪

♪ I had to stop for the night ♪

♪ There she stood in the doorway ♪

♪ I heard the mission bell ♪

♪ I was thinking to myself ♪

This could be heaven or this could be hell ♪

♪ Then she lit up a candle ♪

♪ And s showed me the way ♪

♪ There were voices down the corridor ♪

♪ I thought I heard them say ♪

♪ Welcome to the Hotel California ♪

♪ Such a lovely place ♪

♪ Sh a lovely place ♪

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♪ There's plenty of room at the Hotel California ♪

♪ Any time of year ♪

♪ Any time of year ♪

♪ Mirrors on the ceiling ♪

♪ The pink champagne on ice ♪

♪ And she said ♪

♪ We are all just prisors her♪

♪ Of our own device ♪

♪ And in the master's chambers ♪

♪ They gathered for the feast ♪

♪ They stab it with their steelknives♪

♪ But they just can't kill the beast ♪

♪ I was running for the dr ♪

♪ I had to find the passage back ♪

Relax, said the night man ♪

♪ We are programmed to receive ♪

♪ You can check out any time you like ♪

♪ But you can never leave. ♪

(electric guitar interlude playing)

(electric guar interlude continues)

(song ds, crowd cheering)

Ye, it's me again. Hey.

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Pleaseelcome 20-time Grammy-winner

Vince Gill.

(bd pling “Peaceful Easy Feeling”)

I like the way ♪

♪ Your sparkling earrings lay ♪

♪ Against your skin so brown ♪

♪ I want to sleep with you ♪

♪ In the desert tonight ♪

♪ With a billion stars all around ♪

♪ I got a peaceful ♪

♪ Easy feeling ♪

♪ And I know you won't ♪

♪ Let me down ♪

‘Cause I'alread♪

♪ Standing ♪

♪ On the ground ♪

♪ And I get this feeling ♪

♪ I may know you ♪

♪ As a lover and a friend ♪

But ts voic keeps whispering ♪

♪ In other ear ♪

♪ Tells me I may never ♪

♪ See you again ♪

♪ ‘Cause I get a peaceful ♪

♪ Ey feeling ♪

nd I know you won't ♪

♪ ‘Cause I'm alread♪

♪ Standing ♪

♪ Yes, I'm already ♪

♪ Standing ♪

♪ Yes, I'm already ♪

♪ Standing ♪

♪ On the ground. ♪

(song ends)

ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen,

Grammy-winner and co-writer of “Heartache Toght"

Bob Seger.

(band playing “Heartache Tonig”)

♪ Somebody's nn hurt somne ♪

♪ Befor♪

♪ Somebody's gonna come undone ♪

♪ There's nothing we can do ♪

♪ Everybody wants to touch somebody ♪

♪ If it takes a night ♪

toak♪

♪ And make it come out right ♪

♪ Gonna be a heartache tonight ♪

♪ A heartache tonight ♪

♪ I know ♪

♪ Gonna be a heartache tonight ♪

♪ A heartache tonight, I know ♪

♪ Gonnae a heartache tonight ♪

♪

♪ Turn t thligh♪

♪ A heaache tonight,

a het♪

♪ Oh ♪

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♪ Somebody's gonna me undone ♪

♪ There's nothing we can do ♪

♪ Gonna be a heartache night ♪

♪ Heartache tonight, I know ♪

♪ Gonna be a heartache tonight ♪

♪ Heartache tonight, I know ♪

♪h, know ♪

♪ Get down to the bone ♪

But either way, ♪ Leavethere's gonna be ♪ ♪

♪ A heartache tonight ♪

♪ Heartache tonight, I know ♪

♪here'll be

a heartach

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(band playing flourish)

(crowd cheering)

(song ends)

(cheering continues)

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and the first lady

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(band playing “Life in the Fast Lane”)

♪ He was a hard-headed man ♪

♪ Hwas brutally handsome ♪

♪ And she was terminally pretty ♪

♪ She held him up as he held her for ransom ♪

♪ In the heart of the cold, cold city ♪

♪ He had a nasty reputation as a cruel dude ♪

♪ They had one thing in common ♪

♪ They were gd in bed ♪

♪ She'd say, “Faster and faster, baby ♪

♪ The lights are turning red” ♪

♪ Life in the fast lane ♪

♪ Surely make you lose yo mind ♪

♪ Life in theast ne

♪ Eager for action ♪

♪ And hot forhe game ♪

♪ The coming attraction ♪

♪ The drop of a name ♪

♪ They knew all the right people ♪

♪ They took all the right pills ♪

♪ They threw outrageous pares

♪ They paid heavenly bills, yeah ♪

♪ There were lines on the mirror ♪

♪ Lines on her face ♪

♪ She pretended not to tice ♪

♪ She was caught up in the race ♪

♪ Out eve eveng