There have been nearly 1,000 musical performances on "Saturday Night Live" in its 50 years. We pick 10 of the best.

With that out of the way: ladies and gentlemen… it’s the best musical performance from all 50 seasons of SNL.

An appearance on “Saturday Night Live” used to certify a musician’s stardom. For pop stars of the social media age, has ...

From Theresa Caputo to Amy and Joey and our unmistakable accent, Long Island has been the source of innumerable "SNL" gags ...

Everything sucked for him until he threw down that French horn and picked up that guitar. “Amy, listen closely because I got ...

Yes, it's been live from New York for 50 years, but often its comedic eyes been cast across the Hudson River to the Garden State. The Jersey jokes, and bemused asides, stated in 1977 with Gilda ...

Initially, though, you wouldn’t know it—because not only was Wash uncredited for her work on the track, but the group ...

Fred Armisen recalls how Saturday Night Live helped shape his musical taste and led him to create one of his own great sketches — “Band Reunion ... Kutcher to play guitar, and luckily, with ...

Starting promptly at 6:30pm, McCartney and his band rocked The Bowery Ballroom for two straight hours. Paul McCartney Rips ...

Tom Morello, guitarist of Rage Against the Machine, shared in the NBC documentary Ladies & Gentlemen … 50 Years of SNL Music that the Secret Service locked down the band after their 1996 SNL ...

Punk rock band Fear caused mayhem on Saturday Night Live on Halloween in 1981 ... At the end of the Fear performance, I jump on the stage with a guitar, acting like I’m with the group ...