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Welcome to watchmojo and today we're counting down our picks for the most popular concerts that were considered the catalyst for struggling musicians comebacks.

Number 10 Billy Joel concert for Sandy Relief it didn't seem like Billy Joel's career needed saving by 2012.

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He had been mostly retired since 1999, living off his status as a classic rock figurehead.

But after the shooting tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, he felt compelled to participate in a benefit concert at New York's Madison Square Garden.

Beyond the success of the charity, viewers of the broadcast singled out Joel's half hour rendition of his most beloved classics.

He himself would credit the event with renewing his passion for live performance.

Just over a year later, Joel began his 10 year residency at the venue that affirmed his continued relevance as an artist to the world.

Adele the 54th Grammy Awards the world held its breath as pop phenom Adele underwent surgery in 2011.

Put a laser down your throat, cut off the polyp and kind of laser your hemorrhage back together and fix it.

She had just released her sensational second album when the discovery of a benign polyp on her vocal cords forced her to cancel the promotional tour.

The momentum of her success would hang on a performance at the 2012 Grammy Awards following her recovery.

Thankfully, Adele sang Rolling in the Deep more spectacularly than ever.

She also gave her voice a little extra exercise with acceptance speeches for six awards that night.

Many thought it was touch and go in light of Adele's medical issue.

The Grammys wound up being a true victory lap to cement one of the towering pop careers of the era.

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Eric Clapton MTV Unplugged despite regular output and acclaim, blues rock legend Eric Clapton had lost much of his relevance by the 1990s.

He regressed into privacy for a time following his four year old son Connor's death in 1991.

Clapton then returned with the soundtrack for the film Rush and an acoustic set at Bray Studios in Windsor Windsor.

The performance was filmed for what would be hailed as one of the best episodes of MTV Unplugged, highlighted by a moving tribute to Conor with Tears in Heaven.

The song itself won three Grammys, while an album of the concert was named Album of the Year.

Clapton's comeback began with a career bestseller and has sustained with both new and classic hits ever since.

David Bowie, Glastonbury Festival One of the most revered musicians of his day was perhaps getting too experimental in the 90s.

Many critics and fans felt that David Bowie was overcompensating for the commercialism of the previous decade.

They all agreed on his triumph as the Sunday headliner at the Glastonbury Festival in 2000.

For two hours, Bowie dominated the pyramid stage with a mix of his greatest hits and new masterpieces.

The BBC received serious backlash for cutting the broadcast short.

Per an agreement with the camera shy rocker.

The world would eventually witness the full concert and embrace it as one of the greatest in the history of the festival.

It was the comeback of the new millennium for an artistic visionary and pop idol.

Fleetwood Mac the Dance One of the most beloved and dysfunctional bands in pop rock was shattered after the 1987 album Tango in the Night.

The departure of Lindsey Buckingham, then Stevie Nicks spelled an uncertain future for the McVie's and McFleet wood.

Thus the fans favorite lineup reunited to record a concert special for MTV at Warner Bros.

The Dance was a ratings hit and the accompanying album and video went platinum a total of 26 times.

The subsequent promotional tour's success and the rekindling of creative chemistry for the new material convinced Fleetwood Mac to make their reunion permanent.

A new generation would get to enjoy these legends in concert, but

the Dance really put their resilient greatness into perspective.

Elton John the Troubadour with two albums, Elton John was a rising star in the UK and mostly unknown in the States.

Through much negotiating and a pay cut, he and his new band were able to hop the pie on for a six night stint at the Troubadour in West Hollywood.

They only needed the night of August 25th to make history.

John's elaborate and eccentric performance prompted Robert Hilburn of the LA Times to write, he's going to be one of rock's biggest and most important stars.

The critics were right this time as John's costly gamble propelled him onto the world stage and boosted his self titled sophomore album into a mega hit.

This would be flash in the pan has been the music world culture ever since.

Queen Live Aid it's hard now to imagine that Queen was slowing down by 1985.

Their last two albums were so critically and commercially disappointing that they opted out of a North American tour.

It's believed they were considering breaking up when they booked Bob Geldof's benefit concert for famine relief in Ethiopia.

Queen's half hour set at London's Wembley Stadium was immediately praised as the highlight of Live Aid.

Over time it's become popularly recognized as one of the most important concerts in rock history.

It certainly was for Queen, who then scored the film Highlander and released the album A Kind of Magic to wide acclaim.

Of course, Live Aid alone dismissed any doubt that Queen would ever fall from the peak of rock.

Johnny Cash Folsom Prison Folsom Prison Blues was hardly autobiographical, but

it established Johnny Cash as a uniquely edgy voice in country music.

His status was nonetheless devastated by substance use disorder in the latter 1960s.

After briefly retreating from the public to get clean, he mounted a comeback that played on both his bad boy image and the setting that featured first made him a star.

Cash performed at Folsom State Prison on January 13, 1968, reviving his old trend of holding concerts for prison inmates.

This time he delivered a grit that stunned the world when a recording of the show was released four months later.

Cash formally taking control of a dark brand thus cemented his critical and public renown for generations they called you my I walked the line.

2 Tina Turner the Ritz In 1976, R&B superstar Tina Turner went solo after leaving her creative partner and abusive husband, Ike.

The scandalous divorce corrupted the image that made the Turners.

While painting Tina as a victim, she got by as a touring nostalgia, apparently, until photographer Bob gruen captured a 1983 show at the Ritz in New York.

An audience, which included David Bowie and Keith Richards, was blown away by a performance that photos couldn't do justice.

Word of mouth led to a deal with Capitol Records that kicked off with Private Dancer the following year.

The groundbreaking album earned Turner the title of the Queen of Rock and Roll.

This reinvention was inevitable, but the Ritz is considered the site of an independent woman's great triumph.

The people proclaimed me rock and roll, and so it was just forced.

So it didn't matter what the radio stations were saying or were playing.

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Elvis Presley 68 Comeback Special the highest paid actor in Hollywood was more upset than the true fans about his absence from the stage.

Throughout the 1960s, Record sales were also plummeting amidst a new age in rock.

Music manager Colonel Tom Parker thus lined up a one hour NBC special to air on December 3, 1968.

The show, simply titled Elvis, was filmed at NBC Studios in Burbank with dazzling production values.

More importantly, it featured a legendary showman still in his prime.

42% of television audiences tuned in to watch Elvis Presley's first concert in seven years, which really just saved his credibility and youth appeal.

But the commercial resurgence on top of that makes his comeback special the definitive example of what a single concert can accomplish.

Which live performances do you think best encapsulated your favorite artist's resilience?