CLEVELAND (AP) — Hollywood stars Julia Roberts and Zendaya bookended Saturday’s inductions into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame, giving somewhat stardust to an eclectic lineup that included pop icon Cher, heavy steel’s Ozzy Osbourne, hip-hop soul queen Mary J. Blige, tender rockers Foreigner and 83-year-old soul icon Dionne Warwick.
It was a five-hour-plus present that additionally honored hip-hop trailblazers A Tribe Referred to as Quest, punk pioneers the MC5, the easy dance music of Kool & the Gang, the tender rock of Foreigner, the seaside bum tunes of Jimmy Buffett and the jam band fusion of Dave Matthews Band.
Dua Lipa opened the present singing Cher’s “Believe” earlier than the 78-year-old icon joined her onstage, giving method to Zendaya who famous that Cher is the one lady to have a No. 1 hit on a Billboard chart in every of the previous seven many years. “Cher has got the goods,” Zendaya mentioned earlier than Cher carried out a rocking model of “If I Could Turn Back Time.”
In her speech, Cher thanked her mom for instilling in her to at all times get again up after defeat. “I never give up,” she mentioned. “I’m talking to the women — down and out, we keep going.”
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Roberts helped induct Dave Matthews Band — she’s a self-avowed superfan and she or he appeared within the band’s video for the 2005 single, “Dreamgirl.” Roberts, carrying a band T-shirt, mentioned the enchantment of the group is “spontaneous abandon,” including the primary time she danced together with her husband was to 1 ofn their songs.
The jam band, with their mixture of funk, folk-rock, jazz, blues and pop, then performed “Ants Marching” — asking the group to sing the refrain — “Crash” and “So Much to Say.” The sector was nonetheless full once they hit the stage after midnight, with the group singing alongside and swaying.
Matthews hugged Roberts, handed out the trophies to his bandmates, and known as the category of 2024 spectacular. “We’re swimming in very deep water here,” he mentioned. He thanked the present and former band members and the bar proprietor who gave them a house in Charlottesville, Virginia. When he thanked the followers, they roared again.
Dr Dre inducted Blige, who’s credited with creating a totally new class of music — hip-hop soul. The nine-time Grammy-winner’s best-known music is ”Household Affair″ from her triple-platinum 2001 album “No More Drama.” “When you listen to Mary, you understand you’re not alone in heartbreak,” Dre mentioned.
Blige, carrying shiny black hat, a shiny costume and lengthy black gloves and boots, sang a mixture of her hits, together with “Love No Limit,” “Be Happy” and “Family Affair.” On the finish of her set, a dancer introduced up a cloak to wrap round her, in an echo of James Brown. “Move with grace. Trust the journey,” she suggested. “You are worthy.”
Chuck D inducted Kool & the Gang, saying “This is a long-due celebration.” The band had 12 High 10 hits on the Billboard Sizzling 100 together with the 1980 chart-topper “Celebration” in addition to “Cherish,” “Get Down On It,” “Jungle Boogie,” “Ladies Night” and “Joanna.” They’ve been eligible for the corridor since 1994.
The Roots helped the band do a medley of hits that received the group grooving led by Robert “Kool” Bell — bass guitarist, co-founder and final authentic member — and longtime singer James “JT” Taylor. Confetti shot into the sector and Taylor requested the group to make use of their cellphone lights as he learn off the names of 10 members who had been essential to the band’s success.
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Warwick arrived on the ceremony just a few days after attending a memorial to her longtime pal and collaborator, Cissy Houston. Teyana Taylor known as her “truly one of a kind” in addition to telling off the teleprompter operator for not placing “Ms.” earlier than her identify. Jennifer Hudson sang “I’ll Never Love This Way Again” and was joined by Warwick, who additionally sang “Walk On By.”
Warwick mentioned this yr was the third time she was nominated for the Corridor. “I am so pleased to be here,” she mentioned. “I’m just going to say this and get off the stage: Thank you, thank you, thank you.”
Dave Chappelle helped induct A Tribe Referred to as Quest — Q-Tip, Jarobi, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and the late Phife Dawg — the lone hip-hop group to make the reduce this yr. Chappelle mentioned the group integrated “jazz and soul in a way hip-hop had never seen.” Queen Latifah, Busta Rhymes, Widespread, The Roots and De La Soul had been available to carry out a medley of Tribe hits, together with “Bonita Applebum,” “Scenario” and “Can I Kick It?”
Sammy Hagar launched Foreigner, and thanked their followers for his or her tenacity to demand inclusion. The English-American rockers — with hits like “Cold as Ice,” and “Waiting for a Girl Like You” — topped the charts within the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s however by no means made it into the Corridor — a lot much less a poll — till final yr, regardless of being eligible for greater than 20 years.
Hagar famous that Foreigner presently excursions with none authentic members. “That’s how good the songs are,” he mentioned. “Who deserves this more than Foreigner?” Demi Lovato and Slash joined the touring Foreigner for “Feels Like the First Time” and Hagar then took lead for “Hot Blooded.” Kelly Clarkson thrilled with a strong “I Want to Know What Love Is” however the area erupted when authentic singer Lou Gramm joined her.
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Saturday’s induction ceremony was on the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, the place the Corridor has promised to return to each few years. A TV particular with efficiency highlights will air on ABC on Jan. 1.
Roger Daltrey of The Who inducted Frampton. “It’s about bloody time!” he mentioned. “Peter has had the most amazing career of all time. It’s probably easier to name the people he hasn’t worked with than the people he has,” Daltrey mentioned.
Frampton earned his means into the Corridor largely on the energy of his 1976 reside double album “Frampton Comes Alive!,” buoyed by the hit songs “Show Me the Way” and ″Child, I Love Your Approach.” Daltrey famous Frampton has at all times performed with a large smile.
A fittingly grinning Frampton — who performed eventually yr’s ceremony to honor Sheryl Crow — introduced on Keith City to commerce licks on “Do You Feel Like I Do” and confirmed why he’s thought-about considered one of rock’s nice guitarists. He connected his well-known speak field impact and the group roared.
Dave Matthews — earlier than his band’s inducement — helped honor Buffett with an acoustic model of the late singer-songwriter’s “A Pirate Looks at Forty.” James Taylor then got here out to name Buffett — who popularized seaside bum tender rock with the escapist music “Margaritaville” — “larger-than-life but at the same time right-sized and always authentic.” Taylor, Kenny Chesney and Mac McAnally then carried out Buffett’s “Come Monday.”
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Musician-actor Jack Black toasted Osbourne, saying that “heaven opened up above me” when he first listened to the album “Blizzard of Ozz.” Black known as Osbourne “the Jack Nicholson of rock” and joked that his actuality TV present “The Osbournes“ was possibly “the most evil thing he ever did.”
Osbourne, seated in a throne, credited the late guitarist Randy Rhoads and his spouse, Sharon, for his profession and life. That is the second time Ozzy has entered the Corridor, the primary time being in 2006 with the seminal steel band Black Sabbath. A tribute band to the Prince of Darkness — together with Jelly Roll, Billy Idol, Maynard James Keenan, Wolfgang Van Halen, Steve Stevens and Robert Trujillo — performed “Crazy Train,” “Mama, I’m Coming Home” and “No More Tears.”
The In Memoriam part included tributes, amongst others, to Kris Kristofferson, Cissy Houston, David Sanborn and Liam Payne. Dave Matthews Band carried out “Burning Down the House” from the Speaking Heads as followers stuffed out.
