Most emotional live performaces...

[Ayumi Hamasaki]

Didn't see a thread like this one so figured I'd make one. Have you ever seen a live performance of a song that made you want to cry. Post it here.

I have two at the moment, but one is a fancam so bear it with it, it's good.

First, Ayumi Hamaski singing Memorial Address live.

It makes me want to cry every time. The song is supposedly about her dad, who she never really knew because he left when she was little dieing.

Two, fancam of Fleetwood Mac's Silver Springs. For anyone who doesn't know, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks used to date way back when. At the end of the this video, she completely wipes out emotionally. The song is so obviously about him. And it's fancam so bear with it, as I said.

Do you have any?

 

[Amizon]

If you ever asked me for a beautiful and emotional performance live, then I have to hand it over to Leona Lewis. She's done a lot of these kind of performances, but her rendition of Run was fantastic and it's at its peak when she's singing louder towards the end with the choir.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Got quite a few, but I'll try and keep it concise;

Horowitz plays Schumann's Traumerei: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq7ncjhSqtk

This piece was played at the end of the second world war, so as you can see, some of the elderly members of the audience are crying. Truly beautiful.

Anathema - One Last Goodbye - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4qU_74X3iQ

I love this song, and I love it live ><.

Horowitz again playing Chopin's Heroic Polonaise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZGi49Bnghs

This piece was written to make the Polish swell with pride for their country during the Russian occupation, a dream of a stronger, heroic Poland, and you can tell why, it's a very victorious piece.

 

[Valvalis]

I've cried during Orla Fallon performing "Carrickfergus" at a Celtic Woman show. I don't have a live version link but here's the recorded version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qXFyIL_uoI

Mostly because the song has personal emotional attachment, but the simplicity and beauty of it helped bring the tears out a bit too.

Also, whenever I've seen the Goo Goo Dolls perform "Name," that's been a big deal, because that song was what got them started, and they usually open it up an already mellow song with some sort of mellow/serious introductory words to the audience. Made me tear up a few times when the song was particularly hitting home for me personally.

Aurora by Foo Fighters too, it's a very deep song and to see it live with low lighting, and the atmosphere of the concert hall (also I was in the front row up against the stage) was really something else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKXegyJe5HE

(sorry I don't have any actual live versions)

 

[Davey Gaga]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qemWRToNYJY

Adele, singing Someone Like You, at the 2011 Brit Awards.

James Corden says it all...she just channels all of this emotion, and ability to relate to most people in the world, in to a beautifully-written song. With only a piano to back her up, she took the whole world by storm when she brought this to everyone's attention. Well the fuck done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQRuYS_h-Vs

Lady Gaga, singing a cover of Imagine.

She's not one to sing covers very much but this particular song, which she twists to make her own, underlines what she's all about - trying to make a difference in the way we all see one another, and driving equality among everyone. Well the fuck done.

 

[Artemisia]

Lara Fabian singing Lucio Dalla's 'Caruso' - her gestures and inflections are so powerful and her voice is just so incredibly strong and beautiful, i was taken aback. I'd highly recommend checking out the video on youtube!
Any performance of Maria Callas doing the Tosca or Norma operas. She was truly both a dramatic and musical legend.