{"id":72251,"date":"2025-08-15T18:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/72251\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T18:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:49:07","slug":"chubby-checker-skipping-rock-hall-induction-ceremony-to-play-a-gig-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/72251\/","title":{"rendered":"Chubby Checker Skipping Rock Hall Induction Ceremony to Play a Gig Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chubby Checker has decided against attending the <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/04\/rock-roll-hall-of-fame-2025-class-the-white-stripes-outkast-soundgarden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony<\/a>, where he\u2019ll be enshrined as part of a class that also includes The White Stripes, Soundgarden, OutKast, and Cyndi Lauper. Instead, the 85-year-old musician will spend the night of the ceremony \u201cdoing what I love doing the most\u201d: out on the road, playing a gig.<\/p>\n<p>As Checker explained in a <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:ylzbcma7f742r6zhw573gyxx\/post\/3lv46ft5cms23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">recent interview<\/a> with Future Rock Legends, he declined the invitation to attend his Rock Hall induction after apparently being informed he would not be allowed to perform live during the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you come to be an older person, you run into things that you didn\u2019t run into when you were not an older person. So I told my manager, I says, \u2018Make sure when we go to the Rock &amp; Roll Hall Of Fame, the induction, that I\u2019m doing what I love doing the most: being in front of an audience. A live audience, not a television audience\u2026 So she did, she got me a show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>Part of Check\u2019s thinking, as he explained, was to dispute the notion that some people may have that, \u201cHe\u2019s an old guy. He\u2019s probably retired. He\u2019s not doing anything. He\u2019s coming to the Hall of fame to get his little award and go back home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, let\u2019s being doing a show, to show that I\u2019m alive and well,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\u2019s 2025 induction ceremony is set for November 8th at the at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chubby Checker has decided against attending the 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, where he\u2019ll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-72251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72251","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=72251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}