From shock appearances to all-star singalongs to shifting acceptance speeches, this 12 months’s Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction ceremony was full of once-in-a-lifetime moments.
Inductees included Carly Simon, Judas Priest, Duran Duran, Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo, Eurythmics, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie and Eminem. However many different legends — like Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Alice Cooper, Steven Tyler, Dave Grohl, the Edge, Sheryl Crow, Pink, Lenny Kravitz and Janet Jackson — have been additionally there.
“This 12 months’s poll acknowledges a various group of unbelievable artists, every who has had a profound impression on the sound of youth tradition,” John Sykes, chairman of the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame Basis, mentioned in an announcement earlier this 12 months asserting the nominees. “Their music not solely moved generations but additionally influenced the sound of numerous artists that adopted.”
Like earlier years, there was some controversy main as much as this 12 months’s occasion concerning the rock deserves of artists like Parton and Eminem, however in a latest interview with Forbes, Sykes reiterated that eligibility for inclusion within the Rock Corridor is about extra than simply musical style. “Rock ‘n’ roll is just not one sound however relatively a set of them. However what all of these sounds have in frequent is perspective and spirit,” he mentioned. “Rock ‘n’ roll, like music tradition itself, by no means stays in a single place. It is an ever-evolving sound to replicate tradition. So that you have a look at these totally different artists that you will see inducted this 12 months, they’re totally different genders, they’re totally different colours, they’re totally different sounds, however they’ve one factor in frequent, they created the sound of younger America. As totally different as they sounded musically, they moved younger individuals and so they linked and influenced others to observe.”
We have compiled the ten Finest Moments From the Rock Corridor 2022 Ceremony beneath.
The ten Finest Moments From the Rock Corridor 2022 Ceremony
Musicians of all stripes gathered for rock’s most prestigious night.
