The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inducted its 2024 class with an all-star ceremony at Cleveland’s Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse on Saturday night.Among the 15 acts nominated for the honor Eric B.
& Rakim, Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz, Oasis, Sinéad O’Connor, and Sade will have to wait at least another year.Here’s who did join the Hall tonight… Cher, who’d never appeared on the ballot before this year and said in December that the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame could go fuck itself, was first up.
(David Geffen wrote a letter to the Rock Hall board on her behalf before the nominations were announced.) Zendaya made the introductory speech, and in her own speech Cher said she’d “changed the sound of music forever” and that “I never give up.” With house band the Roots, Dua Lipa sang Cher’s #1 hit “Believe” and was joined mid-song by Cher herself who also performed “If I Could Turn Back Time.” Kool & The Gang were first eligible for the Hall 30 years ago, and Public Enemy’s Chuck D called it “a long-overdue celebration” in his induction speech.(An artist is eligible 25 years after the release of their commercial recording.) The ‘70s and ’80s hitmakers performed a medley of their hits “Hollywood Swinging,” “Get Down On it,” “Ladies’ Night,” “Jungle Boogie,” and “Celebration.” Robert Bell, James “J.T.” Taylor, Claydes Smith, Richard Westfield, Robert Mickens, George Brown, Ronald Bell, and Dennis Thomas were the members of the R&B/funk group inducted; the latter three had passed away in recent years.
Foreigner were first eligible in 2002 and last summer vocalist Lou Gramm blamed their snub on “a personal vendetta between the gentleman who owns Rolling Stone and Mick [Jones, the band’s guitarist].” Weeks later that gentleman was removed from the Rock Hall’s board after widely condemned comments about Black and women musicians (he later apologized) and now the band can collect th...