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announcer: ladies and gentlemen, 2005 kennedy center honoree tony bennett. ( new york state of mind playing) we came of age with the legacy of the great american songbook, created by. george gershwin. jerome kern. the great cole porter. and interpreted by frank sinatra, ella fitzgerald, nat king cole, and then myself. (laughter) the whole world loves these songs. but times change, and there was an opening for another songbook. enter billy joel. (applause) billy s an exciting performer who can move and electrify audiences. he does it singing the songs of billy joel. great songs on subjects from love to war, from triumph and to loss. and stories about ordinary people with extraordinary emotions. and he puts them to tunes that you can t get out of your head. what a thrill it was for me to perform with billy in front of 110,000 of our fellow new yorkers at shea stadium, singing his new york state of mind. billy joel. (applause) (chuckles) wow. billy joel is no less ....
captioning sponsored by cbs ptioning sponsored this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. with s pelley: good evening. he changed the world. you can t say that about many people. but you can say that about nelson mandela. the man who lead south africa s peaceful transition out of apartheid and became the country s first black president. he died today at the age of 95. mandela had been battling a lung infection for many months. right after its official announcement tonight mourners began gathering at mandela s home in johannesburg to sing his praises. we have extensive coverage of nelson mandela s life and legacy. first we ll go to deborah in johannesburg tonight, deborah, how has this unfolded for us this evening? reporter: well, scott, for 26 weeks south africans have lived with the knowledge that nelson mandela was gravely ill. first the three month hospitalization and then he was sent to his home to see out his final days because there was nothing more doc ....
came from that era from then. you are going to. cause ironic and witty style has endured him to audiences both in germany and abroad. he s even made several appearances in films most recently and one about betto priced and a film version of his threepenny opera. with my. father. isn t living totally in the past on his last album from twenty seventeen he updated his style combining the spirit of early twentieth century music with a more contemporary sound in school. he s on this trying. my. dream enough i ve. done to keep. and i m joined by the man himself max roberts welcome to the show. the music you specialize in music from between the two was from the weimar republic the twenty s the teas long before you were bold and so what sparked your interest it was the human elegance of the compositions and the humor of the. i mean even the. especially the german songs of course but. it s a feeling like this song by called portia that if it s a speech you move from time to time ....
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