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I’m Just Trying to Party With You Guys: 15 Musicians Who Rocked Simpsons Cameos

“He's about to learn the most important lesson in the music business: don't trust people in the music business.”

I’m Just Trying to Party With You Guys: 15 Musicians Who Rocked Simpsons Cameos

May 23, 2021

From members of the Beatles to Weezer, musicians have lined up to play animated versions of themselves. Here are 15 of the most memorable music cameos on The Simpsons.

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KATY PERRY is into puppets Creative Consultant MATT GROENING CRACKED.com In an unusually risque Christmas episode featuring Muppet versions of the Simpsons, Perry drops by to nuzzle Mr. Burns into her bosom. Over the credits, Muppet Moe tries to kiss her belly button. That's not my belly button, COOS Perry. But I didn't say stop. — Reuters

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Good luck finding the iconic episode with MICHAEL JACKSON CRACKEDO .CONT Since the release of the Finding Neverland /documentary, Stark Raving Dad has been removed from DVDs, Disney+ and syndication. Clips featuring Jackson as mental patient Leon Kompowsky are still on YouTube and old DVD box sets easily found in your neighborhood used book store. — Indiewire

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The Simpsons predicted the future of LADY GAGA CRACKED.CO Lady Gaga thrilled Springfield by flying through the air in a spangly space outfit. Five years late, the real Gaga did the exact same thing in her Super Bowl halftime show. Just one more example of the show's eerie ability to know what lies ahead for all of us. — Business Insider

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Yo-Yo Ma

YO-YO MA helps Monty Burns WOO his lady love CRACKED.COM To set the mood for romance, Ma plays the prelude to Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G major. Producer AI Jean felt lucky to book the classical musician but he had an in --he and Yo-Yo lived in the same dorm when they attended Harvard. — LA Times

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Weezer

WEEZER rocked the end credits CRACKEDo Weezer jams out a crunchy-guitar version of the Simpsons theme to end Season 31. In the episode, the group appears as a cover band named Sailor's Delight, performing the songs of ... Weezer. — Rolling Stone

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Homer helps the Presidential campaign of TED NUMENT in with nth CRACKED.COM No one is voting Democrat while I can still draw a bow, promises the Motor City Madman. With Homer's bumbling aid, Nugent almost takes the White House a remarkable feat for a celebrity candidate that wouldn't have seemed possible prior to 2016. — Ultimate Classic Rock

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When a boy's down a well, you can count on STING GRACKED.COM Bart pretends to suffer tragedy and Sting shows up for We're Sending Our Love Down The Well, a celebrity singalong rescue effort. (The part was originally written for Springsteen.) When Bart actually falls down the hole, a shirtless Sting leads the shovel brigade. — Screenrant

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There's virtually no substitute for SONNY ROLLINS GRACKED.COM Lisa is furious that a record label is promoting concerts featuring a holographic Bleeding Gums Murphy. Sonny Rollins shows up to assure Lisa that holograms are the simply the next wave of entertainment. Of course he'd say that Sonny's a hologram too. — Jazzline

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Hullabalooza isn't complete without SMASHING PUMPKINS GRACKEDO Billy Corrigan, smashing Pumpkins. Homer Simpson, smiling politely. Homer finds fame on the tour as Fat Guy Who Gets Hit In the Stomach With Cannonballs. As James Iwa says People from high school get to see what a successful freak you've become. — Loudwire

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Homer's COVER band shares a jail cell with SAMMY HAGAR CRACKED.co The Red Rocker dies early in the episode before the Heimlich brings him back to Cabo Wabo. Over the end credits, Hagar tells the guys a story about the heads on Easter Island requesting a song, despite knowing all the music of the universe. Sammy, your stuff just rocks a little harder. — Louder Sound

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Teen-age Marge paints a portrait for RINGOSTARR CRACKED.COM She sends the painting to Liverpool and gets a response 20 years later: Dear Marge, thanks for the fab painting of yours truly. I hung it on me wall. You're quite an artist. Yes, we have hamburgers and fries in England, but we call french fries 'chips.' Love, Ringo — Decider

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Pharrell Williams

PHARRELL WILLIAMS offers to write Springfield's new town song MAYOR CRACKED.CO But the job has been promised to Lisa. When Pharrell starts to sing anyway, he is blindfolded, tied to a horse and sent packing. Undaunted, the exiled singer taunts the town with Shelbyville rules, Springfield drools! — Popbuzz

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The Plow King gets a helping hand from LINDA RONSTADT CRACKED.COM When the snow starts a-fallin', there's a man you should be callin', that's KL5-4796, let it ring! Mr. Plow is a loser, and I think he is a boozer, SO you better make that call to the Plow King! — Genius

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Everybody hates Ned Flanders, even DAVID BYRNE Duff the CRACKED.COM I've been researching indigenous folk music of Springfield and I couldn't help overhearing your delightfully cruel hate song. Byrne offers to produce Homer's anti-Flanders ditty, adding lyrics like His Leftorium is an emporium of woe! — YouTube

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Everyone loves a Flaming Moe, especially AeROSMITH CRACKED.COM Moe begs the band to rock the house, but Steven and the boys refuse until they're offered free pickled eggs. Then it's HELLO, ST. LOUIS! and a howling, flaming-hair version of Walk This Way. Moe even gets to croak along on the chorus. — Noise 11

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