How do you squeeze 30 years of hit songs into 12 minutes? Such was the size of the challenge facing US R&B star Usher while curating his setlist for the 58th Super Bowl Halftime performance in Las Vegas last Sunday, February 11.
What Usher described as being in “the bucket list for every musician” provided the perfect backdrop to celebrate a prolific music career. It was Usher’s mentor Michael Jackson who in 1993 transformed the Super Bowl halftime show from a dreary affair with marching bands and drills into a pop music phenomenon when he performed Heal the World accompanied by 3,500 children.
