The thirty ninth annual Rock & Roll Hall 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 Referred to as Quest and Cher confirmed as much as settle for inductions from Chuck D, Julia Roberts, Methodology Man, Dr. Dre, Dave Chappelle and Zendaya.
4 out of the eight inductees within the performer class had been on the poll for the primary time: Cher, Foreigner, Kool & the Gang and Peter Frampton.
The occasion returned to the hometown of the Rock & Roll Museum for the primary time since 2021. This yr’s high 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 Referred to as Quest. Musical Excellence Award honorees included Jimmy Buffett, MC5, Dionne Warwick and Norman Whitfield; Alexis Korner, John Mayall and Massive Mama Thornton acquired the Musical Affect Award. Motown government Suzanne de Passe acquired the Ahmet Ertegun Award — the fifth girl to obtain the accolade.
“We are swimming in deep water 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 simply precisely 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 joined Mary J. Blige. Kelly Clarkson, Demi Lovato, Chad Smith, Slash and Sammy Hagar fashioned a Foreigner supergroup, as did James Taylor, Mac McAnally and Kenny Chesney, to pay tribute to their late pal Jimmy Buffet. Smith returned for the Ozzy Osbourne induction, enjoying with Maynard James Keenan, Jelly Roll, Billy Idol and extra.
Under are the highest moments from the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, which is 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 an extended black leather-based gown hinged with delicate chains over fishnet stockings, belting Cher’s anthem “Believe.” Then Cher, in leather-based chaps, joined Dua, and the duo linked palms triumphantly, hitting the refrain of the 1998 comeback track. Zendaya delivered Cher’s induction speech in a Bob Mackie nude-illusion halter gown that channeled one of the icon’s traditional seems to be from 1975. The actress mentioned of the famous person, who had not acquired a Hall of Fame nomination till this yr, “Cher has got the goods,” drawing eyes to the stat that she is the one solo artist to have a No. 1 hit in every of the final seven a long time and calling her “the coolest woman 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 easier getting divorced from two men than it was getting in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.” She has been outspoken about being ignored for therefore a few years by the group, telling Kelly Clarkson in 2022, “I wouldn’t be in it now if they gave me a million dollars.”
She had a change of coronary heart and thanked David Geffen for taking the award to the end line: “I want to thank my guardian, David Geffen, because he wrote a letter and sent it to the directors, and so here I am. Thank you, David. Thank you for caring so much about me.”
All through the tackle, her theme was resilience. She detailed her profession’s ups and downs and maintained a way of delight and self-worth not primarily based on being the prettiest, smartest or most gifted within the room.
“I’m talking to the women,” she added. “We’ve been down and out, and we keep striving and we keep going and we keep building and we are somebody. We are special.”
Chuck D’s Kool-Pentameter
The Public Enemy frontman inducted a bunch lengthy ignored by the Rock Hall of Fame, Kool & the Gang. D’s speech was pure poetry within the rhythm of “Kool,” a soulful, funky riff of verbal reward.
He famous that “few artists have been sampled by hip-hop producers more than Kool & the Gang” and “let it be known: this is a long-overdue celebration,” noting that, “Y’all know the deal, birthdays, weddings, sports, championships. Y’all know the drill … The get down to the get down to the get down on it … I’m just saying that hey, hey, hey, good job is always on our minds, inside wild and peaceful jobs. To the get down to the jungle boogie, get down to the one down and jungle boogie, say ‘uh!’ I wanted to rap on that record. And if that wasn’t enough, there was more funky stuff.”
Mark Ronson, Lionel Richie, Usher and Anderson .Paak participated within the video introduction.
James J.T. Taylor and Robert ‘Kool’ Bell carried out “Get Down on It,” “Jungle Boogie,” “Hollywood Swinging,” “Ladies’ Night” 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 reminiscent of the star from the Sixties with a bee-hive hairdo and olive-color empire-waist tasseled robe.
“It wasn’t until I got the role of a lifetime to play her in the upcoming biopic that I came to understand the depths of her talent she has,” Taylor says. “She has done an incredible service to the world with her music,” calling “Don’t Make Me Over” an anthem for girls the world over and recognizing that Warwick bumped The Beatles off of the charts.
“Ms Warwick did not come to play, period,” Taylor says. “What the world needs now is love, sweet love, but what it really needs is more of Ms. Dionne Warwick.”
Jennifer Hudson sang “I’ll Never Love This Way Again” and was joined by Warwick, who additionally sang “Walk On By.”
When Warwick accepted her award from Taylor, she mentioned that “her alter ego is with me tonight.”
The Foreigner Tremendous Group
You may at all times rely on the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction ceremony to unite musicians in sudden 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 “Hot Blooded” and Clarkson duetted “I Want 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 Roast and the Rocks
Roger Daltrey poked at Peter Frampton’s lack of prior nominations, beginning off his induction speech with, “I was astonished this guy wasn’t inducted 35 years ago.” He then shared that early on Pete Townsend joked that packs of screaming women had mistaken Daltrey for Frampton earlier than occurring to roast his countless farewell excursions. Frampton jammed with Keith City on “Do You Feel Like We Do,” which was the most important guitar second of the night time.
To shut the night time, Dave Matthews Band carried out all their largest hits, after an induction from Julia Roberts the place she humorously recounted a Google search gone unsuitable.
“Don’t Google David Matthews,” sharing that she stumbled upon a horrible story that the unsuitable Dave Matthew was a person in New Zealand in his sixties who had suffered from a stroke.
Then, she discovered the appropriate one … “Googled on to discover — oh, friends with Adam Sandler didn’t know that there was no mention of — anyway, he and Ashley have a winery, cool label, good price point. Didn’t know. And then it reads, ‘When did Dave Matthews come out?’ But that refers to when the band first came out, as you know, a band. So these things happen when you name the band after yourself.”
In a single of the most important surprises of the night time, Dave Matthews Band wrapped up the night with “Burning Down the House,” a tribute to the Speaking Heads 1983 album Talking in Tongues.
