An eight-ton, 72-foot Norway spruce lit up with sparkling holiday colors as thousands of onlookers packed into the streets surrounding the center's plaza, with its famed skating rink and gilded statue depicting Prometheus bringing fire to mankind.
Tony Bennett, Harry Connick Jr., Jamie Foxx and Beyonce were among the entertainers who performed for television audiences and the crowd surrounding the midtown Manhattan complex.
This year's tree is decorated with 30,000 energy-efficient LED lights on 5 miles of wire, topped with a massive crystal star.
While the first official lighting was in 1933, the first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was put up two years earlier during the Depression by workers building the Art Deco complex.
In past years, the tree has been recycled after the holiday season in a variety of ways, including making toys for animals at the Bronx Zoo and being mulched for hiking trails.
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