Here’s what happened at the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame ceremony

The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony is usually not the most important event of a given year, but it is at least a justification for bringing famous people together, getting them talking about musical acts. famous, then watch those famous musicals. acts are performed and / or choose not to be performed due to a fully justified belief that it is all stupid and unnecessary. This year’s event was supposed to take place in May, but in March iyou’ve been postponed to November due to the coronavirus pandemic – organizers presumably assuming that there is no way things were actively getting worse after almost eight months. The induction ceremony finally took place yesterday, which also turned out to be the day the US Presidential Election was called, almost as if the universe was trying to send Rock Hall a message about the ceremony for this. year. Is the universe a huge fan of Nine Inch Nails and worries that entering the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame will come back to sell? Yeah maybe.

Either way, the pandemic is still going on, obviously, which meant there couldn’t be a big ceremony with speeches and performances. Instead, the producers put on a series. pre-recorded tributes to all this year’s inductees – which, in case you’ve since forgotten they were announced in january, includes Whitney Houston, the Doobie Brothers, T. Rex, Depeche Mode, the Notorious BIG and the aforementioned Nine Inch Nails. Then, maybe because the producers of Rock Hall made sort of guess something bigger was going to happen in the world last night, they uploaded a bunch of clips to youtube for us to watch today when we need a break from joking about Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

Here is Rolan Bolan, son of Marc Bolan, accepting the induction of T. Rex on behalf of his parents and noting the fact that he never knew his father until he started listening to T. Rex and to recognize the impact that the band’s music had on the world:

This is Cissy and Pat Houston, accepting the induction of Whitney Houston, and you can read the speech Alicia Keys gave in her honor. more than Pitchfork.

Iggy Pop, St. Vincent, Miley Cyrus and other Nine Inch Nails inductees (you can read what they said to Pitchfork), and you can see Trent Reznor’s acceptance speech below.

Here’s Tyanna and CJ Wallace accepting the induction of their father, the Notorious BIG, who was honored in speeches (which you can read here) by JAY-Z, Nas and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Here are the Doobie Brothers who accept with a video that is a little less moving than the others, if only because it is a fairly traditional and expected induction into Rock Hall. Of course the Doobie Brothers are in there. They did “Black Water”.

Finally, here’s Depeche Mode cracking jokes and seeming to marvel at the fact that they’re all in a video chat together. Their speech was preceded by Tributes from famous super-fan Charlize Theron, Christ Martin from Coldplay, Lauren Mayberry from Chvrches, Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top and Win Butler from Arcade Fire.