The thirty ninth annual Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction ceremony turned Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, Ohio, right into a “celebration” Saturday night time as Kool & the Gang, Dave Matthews Band, Mary J. Blige, A Tribe Known as Quest and Cher confirmed as much as settle for inductions from Chuck D, Julia Roberts, Technique Man, Dr. Dre, Dave Chappelle and Zendaya.
The occasion returned to the hometown of the Rock & Roll Museum for the primary time since 2021. This yr’s prime music-industry honor within the performer class went to Mary J. Blige, Cher, Dave Matthews Band, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Kool & The Gang, Ozzy Osbourne and A Tribe Known as Quest. Musical Excellence Award honorees included Jimmy Buffett, MC5, Dionne Warwick and Norman Whitfield; Alexis Korner, John Mayall and Massive Mama Thornton obtained the Musical Affect Award. Motown govt Suzanne de Passe obtained the Ahmet Ertegun Award — the fifth girl to simply accept the accolade.
4 out of the eight inductees within the performer class have been on the poll for the primary time: Cher, Foreigner, Kool & the Gang and Peter Frampton.
“We’re swimming in deep water right here,” says Matthews of the category of 2024.
The five-and-a-half-hour ceremony intertwined transferring speeches and profession spotlight reels with performances that repeatedly introduced the packed home to its toes. The occasion’s momentum builds across the shock of who will carry out with whom. This yr featured a mashup of inductees and people following of their iconic footsteps as Dua Lipa joined Cher, and Ella Mai and Fortunate Daye each dueted with Mary J. Blige. Kelly Clarkson, Demi Lovato, Chad Smith, Slash and Sammy Hagar shaped a Foreigner supergroup, as did James Taylor, Mac McAnally and Kenny Chesney, to pay tribute to their late good friend Jimmy Buffet. Smith returned for the Ozzy Osbourne induction, enjoying with Maynard James Keenan, Jelly Roll, Billy Idol and extra. Jack Black did the honors for Osbourne, who took all of it in from a “bat” chair.
Under are the highest moments from the 2024 Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction, streaming now on Disney+ and airing Jan. 1 on ABC.
Cher’s Change of Coronary heart
To kick begin the night, Dua Lipa took the stage in a protracted black leather-based gown hinged with delicate chains over fishnet stockings, belting Cher’s anthem “Consider.” Then Cher, in leather-based chaps, joined Dua, and the duo linked arms triumphantly, hitting the refrain of the 1998 comeback tune. Zendaya delivered Cher’s induction speech in a Bob Mackie nude-illusion halter gown that channeled one of many icon’s basic appears to be like from 1975. The actress stated of the celebrity, who had not obtained a Corridor of Fame nomination till this yr, “Cher has obtained the products,” drawing eyes to the stat that Cher is the one solo artist to have a No. 1 hit in every of the final seven many years and calling her “the good girl on the planet.” Cher’s video tribute reel featured soundbites from Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper and Pink.
Cher started her acceptance speech by addressing the elephant within the room: “It was simpler getting divorced from two males than it was getting within the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame.” She has been outspoken about being missed for therefore a few years by the group, telling Kelly Clarkson in 2022, “I wouldn’t be in it now in the event that they gave me 1,000,000 {dollars}.”
She had a change of coronary heart and thanked David Geffen for taking the award to the end line: “I need to thank my guardian, David Geffen, as a result of he wrote a letter and despatched it to the administrators, and so right here I’m. Thanks, David. Thanks for caring a lot about me.”
All through the tackle, her theme was resilience. She detailed her profession’s ups and downs and maintained a way of satisfaction and self-worth not primarily based on being the prettiest, smartest or most gifted within the room.
“I’m speaking to the ladies,” she added. “We’ve been down and out, and we preserve striving and we preserve going and we preserve constructing and we’re anyone. We’re particular.”
Chuck D’s Kool-Pentameter
The Public Enemy frontman inducted a gaggle lengthy missed by the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame, Kool & the Gang. D’s speech was pure poetry in “Kool” rhythm, a soulful, funky riff of verbal reward.
He famous that “few artists have been sampled by hip-hop producers greater than Kool & the Gang” and “let or not it’s identified: it is a long-overdue celebration,” noting that “Y’all know the deal, birthdays, weddings, sports activities, championships. Y’all know the drill … The get all the way down to the get all the way down to the get down on it … I’m simply saying that hey, hey, hey, good job is at all times on our minds, inside wild and peaceable jobs. To the get all the way down to the jungle boogie, get all the way down to the one down and jungle boogie, say ‘uh!’ I needed to rap on that file. And if that wasn’t sufficient, there was extra funky stuff.”
Mark Ronson, Lionel Richie, Usher and Anderson .Paak participated within the video introduction.
Representing Kool & the Gang, James J.T. Taylor and Robert ‘Kool’ Bell carried out “Get Down on It,” “Jungle Boogie,” “Hollywood Swinging,” “Women’ Night time” and “Celebration.”
Dionne Warwick Calls Teyana Taylor Her “Alter Ego”
Teyana Taylor, who will play Dionne Warwick in an upcoming biopic, graced the stage in a glance paying homage to the star from the Sixties with a bee-hive hairdo and olive-color empire-waist tasseled robe.
“It wasn’t till I obtained the function of a lifetime to play her within the upcoming biopic that I got here to know the depths of her expertise,” Taylor says. “She has finished an unimaginable service to the world along with her music,” calling “Don’t Make Me Over” an anthem for ladies internationally and recognizing that Warwick bumped The Beatles off of the charts.
“Ms Warwick didn’t come to play, interval,” Taylor says. “What the world wants now could be love, candy love, however what it actually wants is extra of Ms. Dionne Warwick.”
Jennifer Hudson sang “I’ll By no means Love This Method Once more” and was joined by Warwick, who then additionally sang “Stroll On By.”
When Warwick accepted her award from Taylor, she stated that “her alter ego is with me tonight.”
The Foreigner Tremendous Group
You may at all times depend on the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame Induction ceremony to unite musicians in surprising methods, and 2024 didn’t disappoint on this entrance as Demi Lovato, Chad Smith, Slash, Sammy Hagar and Kelly Clarkson all got here collectively to jam for Foreigner within the absence of Mick Jones and Dennis Elliott. Lovato sang “Feels Like The First Time,” Hagar took on “Sizzling Blooded,” and Clarkson duetted “I Need To Know What Love Is” with Lou Gramm. Jones’ daughter accepted the induction on behalf of her dad, who stopped performing with Foreigner when he was recognized with Parkinson’s in 2022.
Peter Frampton Will get Roasted and Rocks
Roger Daltrey turned his speech about Peter Frampton right into a roast, poking on the rock god’s lack of prior nominations, beginning his speech with, “I used to be astonished this man wasn’t inducted 35 years in the past.” He then shared that early on, Pete Townshend joked that packs of screaming ladies had mistaken Daltrey for Frampton and Townshend for Tiny Tim. earlier than giving him a ribbing over his countless farewell excursions. Frampton jammed with Keith City on “Do You Really feel Like We Do,” which was essentially the most important guitar second of the night time.
Mary J. Blige’s Mutal Admiration with Dr. Dre and Technique Man
Dr Dre and Technique Man did the honors for Mary J Blige, who sang “Love No Restrict,” “Be Blissful” and “Household Affair” in collaboration with up-and-comers Fortunate Daye and Ella Mai. Dre credited Blige with creating a completely new style of music along with her breakthrough album, “What’s the 411?” Blige then shared her respect for Technique Man and Dr. Dre as serving to her obtain GRAMMY and EMMY wins with their collaborative tasks, the 1995’s Greatest Rap Efficiency By A Duo Or Group for “I’ll Be There For You / You’re All I Want To Get By,” and the 2022 Tremendous Bowl Halftime present, respectively.
Julia Roberts Advises Don’t Google David Matthews
To shut the night time, the Dave Matthews Band carried out all their greatest hits after “tremendous fan” Julia Roberts’s induction, throughout which she shared a Google search gone improper.
“Don’t Google David Matthews,” sharing that she stumbled upon a horrible story that the improper Dave Matthew was a person in New Zealand in his sixties who had suffered from a stroke.
Then, she discovered the suitable one … “Googled on to find — oh, associates with Adam Sandler didn’t know that there was no point out of — anyway, he and Ashley have a vineyard, cool label, good value level. Didn’t know. After which it reads, ‘When did Dave Matthews come out?’ However that refers to when the band first got here out, as you already know, a band. So this stuff occur if you identify the band after your self.”
In one of many night time’s greatest surprises, DMB wrapped up the night with “Burning Down the Home,” a tribute to the Speaking Heads 1983 album Talking in Tongues.
