"The Tonight Show would have Crosby, Stills and Nash in 1987. They would wait until there was no danger at all," Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels told Spin in 1993, "whereas we were more in touch with music, I think, because we were just putting on the music we were listening to. We were fans." For its first decade, SNL had some of the most adventurous
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