{"id":272012,"date":"2025-11-09T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T12:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/272012\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T12:08:07","slug":"tears-shouts-and-courage-as-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-welcomes-new-inductees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/272012\/","title":{"rendered":"Tears, shouts and courage as Rock & Roll Hall of Fame welcomes new inductees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cyndi Lauper turned \u201cTrue Colors\u201d into a defiant call for courage and the music of Outkast, Soundgarden and the White Stripes moved the house on Saturday night at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame<\/a> induction ceremony.<\/p>\n

Partway through the song, Lauper shouted the line \u201cdon\u2019t be afraid!,\u201d thrust her fist in the air and kept it there as the music stopped for a long and dramatic stretch.<\/p>\n

She was then joined by Raye to sing \u201cTime After Time\u201d and Avril Lavigne for \u201cGirls Just Want to Have Fun.\u201d As Lauper called for the ladies to sing with her, Salt-N-Pepa \u2014 who earlier in the night donned their old tri-colour jackets to rock the crowd with \u201cPush It\u201d for their induction \u2014 came dancing out and joined her.<\/p>\n

Chappell Roan, who inducted Lauper while wearing a huge, ornamented, showgirl-style headpiece, said Lauper redefined what a pop star could look like, sound like, sing like.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lauper looked at Roan during her speech when she said, \u201cI know that I stand on the shoulders of the women in the industry that came before me. And my shoulders are broad enough to have the women that came after me stand on mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lauper came back for an all-star jam and sang a verse of inductee Joe Cocker\u2019s \u201cWith a Little Help From My Friends\u201d along with Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes, Teddy Swims and Bryan Adams. Cocker was one of several posthumous nominees, with a moving tribute to late Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell.<\/p>\n

The power of women in music was called out loudly earlier in the evening at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles during the induction of Salt-N-Pepa.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is for every woman who picked up a mic when they told her she couldn\u2019t,\u201d Cheryl \u201cSalt\u201d James said in a rousing speech accepting her, Sandra \u201cPepa\u201d Denton and DJ Spinderella\u2019s entrance into the hall.<\/p>\n

James brought up their fight to reclaim their master recordings<\/a> from Universal Music Group.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe industry still doesn\u2019t want to play fair, Salt-N-Pepa have never been afraid of a fight,\u201d James said.<\/p>\n

They took the stage for a medley of their hits. They opened with \u201cShoop\u201d then slid into \u201cLet\u2019s Talk About Sex\u201d before En Vogue joined them for their joint hit \u201cWhat a Man.\u201d<\/p>\n

James apologized to the fans who \u201cgot in trouble for cutting their hair like us,\u201d a line that reverberated later when Roan said that Lauper showed you could \u201chave whatever hair colour you want.\u201d<\/p>\n

Outkast rocks the house, but not entirely together<\/p>\n

Outkast didn\u2019t perform together for the first time since 2016 as some had hoped, but the duo stood together on stage, surrounded by a crew of friends and cohorts as they gave grateful speeches after doing rock-paper-scissors to decide who would go first.<\/p>\n

Andre 3000<\/a> gave a long, rambling funny speech \u2014 \u201cI\u2019m freestylin\u2019 y\u2019all!\u201d \u2014 that ended in tears when he talked about their very beginnings in a basement \u201cdungeon\u201d in Atlanta in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

He choked out the words, \u201cGreat things start in little rooms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andre sat out the performance but Big Boi, wearing shorts and a fur coat, started off an express tour through the Atlanta duo\u2019s discography that included Tyler the Creator, JID and Killer Mike.<\/p>\n

Janelle Mon\u00e1e joined them to shake her way through \u201cHey Ya\u201d and Doja Cat delivered a sly and soulful take on \u201cMs. Jackson.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his speech inducting them, Donald Glover praised them as \u201ctwo visionaries who turned their differences into a dynasty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soundgarden gets emotional<\/p>\n

Emotions ran deep during Soundgarden\u2019s segment of the night, starting with the induction speech of Jim Carrey, the actor and Soundgarden superfan who seemed to be fighting off tears throughout as he talked about Cornell, who died from suicide in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you looked into his eyes, it\u2019s like eternity was staring back, \u201d Carrey said. \u201cFor all time, his voice will continue to light up the ether like a Tesla coil.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each of his band mates, all major godfathers of the Seattle grunge scene, paid their own tearful tributes.<\/p>\n

One of Cornell\u2019s daughters, Lilian, spoke for him while another, Toni, sang a quiet rendition of his song \u201cFell on Black Days.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am just really, really happy that he got to make music with his friends,\u201d Lilian Cornell said.<\/p>\n

\"JimJim Carrey speaks during the 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Saturday, at L.A. Live in Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello\/Invision\/AP)<\/p>\n

Taylor Momsen, who co-starred as a child with Carrey in \u201cHow the Grinch Stole Christmas,\u201d and Brandi Carlile showed serious vocal power with their versions of Cornell\u2019s mighty wail, backed by his band mates on \u201cRusty Cage\u201d and \u201cBlack Hole Sun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bassist Hiro Yamamoto was among the few who brought up the politics from the stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to my parents, whose story is American citizens who are rounded up and placed into prison camps just for being Japanese during World War II,\u201d Yamamoto said to some of the biggest cheers of the night. \u201cWell, that affected my life greatly, and it really echoes strongly today. Let\u2019s not add another story like this to our history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ABrandi Carlile, right performs with Kim Thayil of Soundgarden, during the 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Saturday. (Chris Pizzello\/Invision\/AP)No reunion for the White Stripes<\/p>\n

The White Stripes reunion that some fans had hoped for didn\u2019t happen. Their induction was among the highlights of the night anyway. Twenty One Pilots brought the house down with a version of the duo\u2019s stadium-shaking anthem \u201cSeven Nation Army\u201d and Olivia Rodrigo and Feist delivered an acoustic version of \u201cWe\u2019re Gonna Be Friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their fellow Detroit rock legend Iggy Pop began his induction speech by leading the crowd in a chorus of \u201cSeven Nation Army\u201d then remembered his thoughts on meeting them.<\/p>\n

\u201cCute kids, they\u2019re gonna go places,\u201d Pop said. \u201cAnd they did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drummer Meg White, who has led an almost entirely private life since the band broke up in 2011, did not show up for the ceremony, but Jack White said Meg, his ex-wife, helped him write the speech he delivered while wearing the band\u2019s signature red and white.<\/p>\n

Jack White shouted out several great duos from across culture and said that kind of one-on-one collaboration is \u201cthe most beautiful thing you can have as an artist and musician.\u201d<\/p>\n

He nearly cried several times as he told an Adam-and-Eve-like tale of \u201cthe boy and the girl\u201d who made magic together, \u201cknowing that they have shared and made another person feel something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rousing tributes for absent inductees<\/p>\n

Stevie Wonder<\/a> led a funky and flashy tribute to the late Sly Stone to open the show that streamed live on Disney+. An edited version airs on ABC on Jan 1.<\/p>\n

Wonder was joined Saturday night by Questlove, Leon Thomas, Maxwell, Beck, Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers for rousing renditions of Sly and the Family Stone hits \u201cDance to the Music,\u201d \u201cEveryday People\u201d and \u201cThank You.\u201d Jennifer Hudson joined them to wail through \u201cHigher.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stone, who was inducted into the hall in 1993, died in June.<\/a> Brian Wilson, who died two days later,<\/a> got his own tribute from Elton John, who took the stage late in the show to sing the Beach Boys\u2019 \u201cGod Only Knows.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"eltonElton John performs during the 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Saturday,. (Chris Pizzello\/Invision\/AP)<\/p>\n

Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac inducted Bad Company<\/a>, calling the British group founded by Paul Rodgers and Mick Ralphs in 1973 \u201cclassic rock legends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodgers had to skip the ceremony because of health issues and Ralphs died earlier this year, so drummer Simon Kirke was the only member on the stage. He was joined by an ad hoc super group that included Robinson and Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson, who blasted through \u201cFeel Like Makin\u2019 Love\u201d and \u201cCan\u2019t Get Enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

The late singer-songwriter Warren Zevon was inducted by David Letterman, a friend and superfan who made Zevon a regular on his NBC late-night show, including an appearance when Zevon was dying of cancer in 2002.<\/p>\n

\u201cWarren Zevon is in my Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,\u201d Letterman said. \u201cActually his own wing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other inductees who got video tributes in the theatre were Chubby Checker, session bassist Carole Kaye, session piano man Nicky Hopkins and record producer and executive Lenny Waronker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cyndi Lauper turned \u201cTrue Colors\u201d into a defiant call for courage and the music of Outkast, Soundgarden and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-272012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}