To be sure, a tough act to follow.
Reminds me of a couple OT stories along those lines (indulge me).
In the early 1960s, when the Rolling Stones just started getting acclaim, they headlined a concert in England that also featured a number of other acts. Going right before the Stones was American R & B performer James Brown, who by that time was already a polished, electrifying stage performer. After Brown finished working the crowd into a frenzy and the Stones came on, and it was clearly anticlimactic – Mick Jagger at that point couldn’t even dance (it took Tina Turner to help him learn that).
A few years later, also in England, the rock group The Who booked as their opening act an unknown but up-and-coming American performer named Jimi Hendrix, who absolutely killed and outshone the main act.