What??? Every professional performer does that. Even drugout rock and roll performers can play song after song playing hundreds of chords and notes if not thousands without sheet music..
My first trip to Vegas and the very first show I had attended was this 1980 spectacular extravaganza. I also saw Liberace at the Stardust and once at the Flamingo. One hell of a showman he was.
Mister_Tibbs You are so fortunate to see him!!! I would pay anything to see him in person. What a spectacular man, his talent and beautiful life will live forever. 💕❤️🎹🎼
my grandmother took me when I was young to see Liberace and what a great show! Liberace was a fantastic showman! I didn't think much of it at tge time but years later I remember my grandma and her friends saying how "Dreamy" Liberace is and talking about how some lucky woman would snatch him up one day lol. Grandad said something about him being a "Fruit" which I didn't understand. I of course realized later he was gay and always wondered why that mattered to anyone. Wonderful memories of his show.
❤️🎹Sometimes when I listen to him play, it brings tears to my eyes. His level of talent is out of this world. Nobody will ever be more talented, hilarious, glamorous, entertaining as Lee. Talk about a Legend. He is absolutely amazing. 🎹💕❤️👍
I’m more to the realization that that happy smile and taking your talents as is with a flair for flamboyant beauty and classical music and just doing your own thing is amazing! He is an inspiration to the meaning to doing your own thing . We all need that in our lives. If I’m ever depressed , I look up Liberace . He makes me smile
I couldn’t have put it better myself, even to the tears because that’s what I had at the end of this clip before reading your comment. Elvis may be king of rock but Liberace is King of the keys! I actually saw this show at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1981 and Liberace really was a genius pianist. I visited Las Vegas again in 2018 and thought his museum may be still open to the public. Unfortunately it isn’t and the modern Las Vegas generation do not even know about him! It was so sad that even the concierge had to google Liberace’s name. 👑🎹❤️
My parents went to vesgas EVERY YEAR to see him..And there was never a missed show on the t.v. So when i saw this in such awful disarray i litterally bawled. His staurs are from paris..And those morroccon room tiles...well guess...Lol..I remember when The new owner bought it years ago..After telling a vlogger he was restoring it..I never thought it would happen..BLESS HIM!!!
He was gaudy as hell and larger than life, but he had the talent to justify it. He was easily one of the technically gifted piano players who ever lived. He could make a piano do anything he wanted.
Sometime in the mid 80s, my grandfather taped a bunch of his LPs so I could have some good music to listen to on my new tape player. The only two I still remember were the Best of Liberace Vol. 1 and 2. I listened to those so much, I eventually wore them out. Liberace is still one of my favorite performers of all time.
Hard to imagine anyone for whom the phrase "the one and only" applies more to than Liberace. He was in a world of his own and we were fortunate to be invited into it.
@@GodsFavoriteBassPlyr So what do you do all day? Just look for people to pick from the comfort of your mother's basement? What do you do when you're not finding fault with the comments of people you'll never have to personally confront? Torture small animals?
@@cliffmcginnis3231 - Nope. The person who made the horribly disparaging remark about Liberace, and to whom I was responding.. has either deleted that comment .. or it was deleted for them. Thank you for bringing it to my attention .. I shall remove mine immediately. (and nOoooo..silly... I don't live in 'my mother's basement'. I live in YOUR mother's basement.)
Ha....this is great. I worked as a "show line guard" in the Riviera security department at about the same time. My job was back stage, and at the dressing room. This was the exact same introduction he did at the Riv, but as I recall he had a VW Beetle with the same kind of mirror ball sparkle, and such. The Riv's stage was not as large as the Hitton's and I know that Rolls would have never fit. A lot of good times back then.
I was able to buy some of his jewelry reproductions from the Las Vegas museum when it was open, the piano ring, the candelabra ring, the amethyst ring as well as the first and second editions of the piano watch. A wealthy local woman had a moving sale and I was able to buy a gold Baroque cherub wall table she got from his estate sale...
Really, who couldn't see that this guy's was a queen people act like they didn't know it obvious but he was a true showman.... class he had that and style rip my boy....2019
One of the Greatest Entertainers of all times, I had the pleasure of being in his company and playing drums in his living room on Shirley Street, wile he showed Vince Cardell short cuts on the piano.......
My grandmother loved Liberance and was horrified when he was accused of being Gay .. but then she absolutely refused to believe that Doctior Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket were men in drag either. He was a great showman .. and could actually play the piano well .. and because didn't take himself seriously he was always fun to watch.
NOTHING compares in value to my 12 yr.old GSD who has been my faithful, loyal, predictable and perfect companion for the last 12 years. Take your coat and FREEZE IT.
You, Yes Y0U Missed the point intirely!!! Don't you know your music History? They Did meet; Liberachie Is the reason Elvis started wearing those jumpsuits!!! Scarves! Rings! How DO you Not know this??!
Dans les années 70 grande vedette a las vegas avait un conquérant très important au niveau des entrées a vegas le king elvis presley a l hotel hilton . Liberace avait beaucoups d admiration pour elvis .
Liberace and Prince were flamboyant. But, guess what? You have to have TALENT to back it up. Gimmicks are fun.....but Little Richard, Liberace, Prince......they had TALENT.
I am sad that he was never allowed to tell the world who he was. I hope that he found love along his life's journey. He was an entertainer who excelled in his role in life.
