All language subtitles for 2024 Rock Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony 2024 1080p WEBRip x264 AAC5.1 [YTS.MX]

♪ Ay! ♪

♪ If I could turn back time ♪

♪ What would you say? ♪

♪ Mary J.
Is in the spot tonight ♪

♪ And I'ma make you feel
All right ♪

♪ Do you, you ♪

♪ Celebrate good times
Come on ♪

♪ Wastin' away again
In Margaritaville ♪

♪ Forever, forever
You'll stay in my heart ♪

♪ Here we go, yo
Here we go, yo ♪

♪ I'm hot blooded, hot blooded ♪

♪ After love, after love
After love, after love ♪

♪ After love, after love
After love ♪

♪ After love, after love
After love, after love ♪

♪ No matter how hard I try
You keep pushing me aside ♪

♪ And I can't break through
There's no talking to you ♪

♪ It's so sad
That you're leaving ♪

♪ It takes time to believe it ♪

♪ But after all is said
and done ♪

♪ You're gonna be
the lonely one, oh ♪

♪ Do you believe
in life after love? ♪

♪ I can feel something
inside me say ♪

♪ "I really don't think
you're strong enough, no" ♪

♪ Do you believe
in life after love? ♪

♪ I can feel something
inside me say ♪

♪ "I really don't think
you're strong enough, no" ♪

♪ What am I supposed to do? ♪

♪ Sit around and wait for you? ♪

♪ Well, I can't do that ♪

♪ And there's no turning back
I need time to move on ♪

♪ I need love to feel strong ♪

♪ 'Cause I've had time
to think it through ♪

♪ And maybe I'm too good
for you, oh ♪

♪ Do you believe
in life after love? ♪

♪ I can feel something
inside me say ♪

♪ "I really don't think
you're strong enough, no" ♪

♪ Do you believe
in life after love? ♪

♪ I can feel something
inside me say ♪

♪ "I really don't think
you're strong enough, no" ♪

♪ Well, I know that
I'll get through this ♪

♪ 'Cause I know
that I am strong ♪

♪ And I don't need you anymore ♪

♪ No, I don't need you anymore ♪

♪ No, I don't need you anymore ♪

♪ No, I don't need you anymore ♪

♪ Do you believe
in life after love? ♪

♪ I can feel something
inside me say ♪

♪ "I really don't think
you're strong enough, no" ♪

♪ Do you believe
in life after love? ♪

♪ I can feel something
inside me say ♪

♪ "I really don't think
you're strong enough, no" ♪

♪ Do you believe
in life after love? ♪

♪ Do you believe
in life after love? ♪

♪ Do you believe
in life after love? ♪

Give it up for Cher!

To induct Cher

into the Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame, Zendaya.

Wow.

Where do I even begin?

There is not one person
in this room,

in this country,
and pretty much the whole world

who doesn't know
the name of the artist

I'm here to honor tonight.

Her name is just
as legendary as her legacy.

So iconic
she only needs one name.

Cher.

It's impossible to measure
the influence

that Cher has had and continues
to have on every one of us,

as you can see.

Her impact spans generations,

and no matter
when you were born,

you have heard, seen,

or experienced Cher's work
in some form or another.

Cher is a constant inspiration
and reference point.

You want dance floor innovation?

Listen to Believe.

You want a lesson on living
in the spotlight

and keeping your sanity?
Look to Cher.

Want to make 27 albums
and win an Oscar?

Cher did it.

You want longevity?
I mean, come on.

She does it all,
and might I add,

really, really fucking well.

But listen, it's not just
the effortless charm,

the acting chops,
and stunning Bob Mackie dresses

that gets you into
the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

For that, you need
to bring the musical goods,

and Cher has got the goods.

She's the only solo artist
to have a number one hit

in each
of the last seven decades.

She has sold over
140 million records worldwide.

When Sonny & Cher came
onto the scene back in 1964,

Cher became
an instant sensation.

The world fell in love
with her and sang along

to their smash hits,
I Got You Babe,

and The Beat Goes On.

Cher's rise as a solo artist
was even more explosive,

shattering so many stereotypes

of what female vocalists
were "supposed" to sound like

and instead creating
something new,

something innovative,
and distinctively her own.

Her voice is so singular
that any song that she sings

becomes a Cher song.

She's navigated
a multitude of musical genres,

defined new ones,
and reinvented others.

Her music touches your heart,
your spirit, makes you dance,

makes you rock,
and has stood the test of time.

Right now, Believe,
I Got You Babe, or Strong Enough

is playing on a radio station
somewhere in America,

and there are drag performers
all over the world...

currently...

in a makeup chair
putting on their best Cher face.

She may be imitated,

but she can never be replicated.

She is an absolutely brilliant
and captivating performer

who is fearless
in her presentation.

Oh, and she can still rock
a sheer butt-revealing bodysuit.

She's been an influence
and an inspiration

for every female artist
that has come after her,

including myself.

She has never acknowledged
or accepted

that there were things
that women

were not supposed to do.

She just did exactly
what she wanted.

Her way.

This fierce woman
is a hero, a true artist,

and just about
as authentically rock and roll

as you can get.

So thank you, Cher.

Thank you for being an advocate,
for being an ally,

for paving the way
for so many humans of all kinds

to live in
and speak their truth,

and to have the courage
to be as daring

and as open-hearted as you.

Cher once said,
"You should never be inhibited"

"by what people expect you
to do."

And those are words I hope
we can all learn to live by.

Do you think

you should be
in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?

You know, fuck them.

I don't need to be
in a hall to rock,

so I don't... You know, whatever.

♪ They say we're young
and we don't know ♪

♪ We won't find out
until we grow... ♪

There wasn't gonna
be Sonny & Cher.

Sonny, he wanted me to be Cher,
and I just said,

"I can't do this by myself."

♪ I got you babe... ♪

I want Cher to be known
as the singer that she is.

She's a very, very good singer,

and I'm desperately trying
to make people aware of that.

♪ Now I ain't lookin'
to compete with you ♪

♪ Beat on... ♪

My first solo hit
was All I Really Want to Do

by Bob Dylan.

♪ All I really want to do ♪

♪ Is baby, be friends with you ♪

♪ The beat goes on... ♪

Sonny was the best person
in the world to work with,

and we worked constantly.

♪ Drums keep pounding
A rhythm to the brain ♪

When I started being able to do

a few things
on my own without Sonny,

I figured I'm not as dumb
as I thought I was,

and I'm not as weak
as I thought I was.

♪ Gypsy, tramps, and thieves ♪

♪ We'd hear it
from the people of the town ♪

♪ They'd call us
gypsies, tramps, and thieves ♪

Cher is a fucking rock star.

She's genre-less and brave.

I think she is one
of the most unique artists

our world has seen.

♪ Dark lady laughed and danced
and lit the candles one by one ♪

♪ Danced to her gypsy music
till her brew was done... ♪

Cher is Cher, one name.
She don't need two.

♪ Goodness gracious
Great balls of fire... ♪

When she wants
to do something, she does it.

And she's always been rocking.

Even her show on television,
she had all the rockers on.

♪ This love is fine ♪

♪ Goodness gracious
Great balls of fire ♪

I like doing the music
that I'm doing on this album

a lot because
it's more rock and roll.

And since I started,
that's what I wanted to be.

♪ I found someone
to take away the heartache ♪

Watching Cher go through

all of these evolutions
in her life,

her fashion sense
and her stage presence,

she is
the most diverse artist ever.

♪ I don't know why
I did the things I did ♪

♪ I don't know why... ♪

We share something in common
by having the same type

of career with husband-manager,

and then separating
and going out on our own.

She was an icon then,

and she has remained an icon.

♪ But baby
If I could turn back time ♪

♪ If I could find a way ♪

♪ I'd take back those words
that have hurt you ♪

- ♪ And you'd stay... ♪
- I have to kind of mix it up,

you know, and I have to sing
other people's songs too,

'cause it wouldn't be
that much fun for me

and I have to be having fun.

♪ And you're not listening
to all I say! ♪

♪ And if you want to know
if he... ♪

Cher's voice,
you know it's Cher.

It's this incredible
masculine-feminine mix.

You can't mimic that.

♪ Now I'm strong enough
to know... ♪

I come out there and I feel like
I'm supposed to be there.

It's an unbelievable feeling

having the energy
of thousands of people.

It makes you feel like
you're about 16-feet tall.

Cher's success is her gumption.

Just the fact
that she came back with Believe

when they all wrote her off,

she wasn't gonna take no
for an answer.

I've been dropped
from two record companies.

Rob Dickins,
head of Warner's UK,

said, "I don't think
you're done."

So I went to England
and I make Believe.

♪ No matter how hard I try... ♪

I was the first person ever
to do Auto-Tune.

She had this idea
of doing this effect.

All this does is it goes along,
it doesn't bend the note

up until it reaches
a certain point,

and then it just flicks
to the nearest note.

And that's where you get
this crazy sound.

♪ I can feel something
inside me say ♪

He played it for me,
and I thought,

"This is the most amazing thing
I've ever heard."

♪ Do you believe
in life after love? ♪

I don't know
how many people can say

that they've put out
27 studio albums

and to have had a hit
in every decade

for seven decades.
So it is about time, everyone.

I wanted to do art

that impresses people
and makes them feel something

and also makes you feel like
this is what

I was put here to do.

I am beyond honored
to welcome Cher,

the coolest woman on the planet,

into the Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame.

♪ If I could turn back time
If I could find a way ♪

♪ I'd turn back those words
that have hurt you ♪

♪ And you'd stay ♪

♪ I don't know why
I did the things I did ♪

♪ I don't know why
I said the things I said ♪

♪ Pride's like a knife
It can cut deep inside ♪

♪ Words are like weapons
They wound sometimes ♪

♪ I didn't really mean
to hurt you ♪

♪ I didn't wanna see you go
I know I made you cry ♪

♪ And, darlin'
if I could turn back time ♪

♪ If I could find a way ♪

♪ I'd take back those words
that have hurt you ♪

♪ And you'd stay ♪

♪ If I could reach the stars ♪

♪ I'd give 'em all to you ♪

♪ Then you'd love me, love me ♪

♪ Like you used to do ♪

♪ If I could turn back time ♪

♪ My world was shattered
I was torn apart ♪

♪ Like someone took a knife
and drove it deep in my heart ♪

♪ You walked out the door
I swore that I didn't care ♪

♪ But I lost everything, darlin'
Then and there ♪

♪ Too hard to tell you
I was sorry ♪

♪ Too proud to tell you
I was wrong ♪

♪ I know that I was blind
And, darlin' ♪

♪ If I could turn back time ♪

♪ If I could find a way ♪

♪ I'd take back those words
that have hurt you ♪

♪ And you'd stay ♪

♪ If I could reach the stars ♪

♪ Well, I'd give 'em all
to you ♪

♪ Then you'd love me, love me ♪

♪ Like you used to do, oh ♪

- ♪ If I could turn back time ♪
- ♪ If I could turn back time ♪

- ♪ If I could turn back time ♪
- ♪ If I could turn back time ♪

♪ If I could turn back time
Oh, baby ♪

Whoo!

♪ I didn't really mean
to hurt you ♪

♪ I didn't wanna see you go
I know I made you cry ♪

♪ But, darlin'
If I could turn back time ♪

♪ If I could find a way ♪

♪ I'd take back those words
that have hurt you ♪

♪ If I could reach the stars ♪

♪ I'd give them all to you ♪

♪ Then you'd love me, love me ♪

♪ Like you used to do ♪

♪ If I could turn back time ♪

♪ Turn back time ♪

♪ If I could find a way ♪

♪ Then maybe, maybe
maybe you'd stay ♪

♪ If I could reach the stars ♪

♪ I'd give 'em all to you ♪

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

You crazy girl.
What are you talking about?

Thank you. Okay. Okay.

Thank you. Thank you.

Oh, thank you.

Oh, no. This, uh...

I'm kind of embarrassed.

Um...

Thank you. Thank you. Um...

So...

Oh, this speech is gonna be
such a crap shoot.

I'm not kidding you.

Because I wrote it
the other day,

and then I rewrote it tonight,

and I'm dyslexic,
so what the fuck?

I don't know
what's gonna happen, okay?

All right, so it was easier
getting divorced

from two men than it was...
...to get inducted

to the Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame, you know?

It was like...

You know, and I want to thank...
He's not here tonight,

but I want to thank my guardian,

David Geffen, because, uh...

Yeah, he wrote a letter,

and, um,
sent it to the directors.

And so... ...here I am.

So anyway, thank you, David.

Thank you for caring
so much about me.

I want to tell you
some stories about my life,

because I hope
to make them small.

But when I was
like four years old,

I saw Cinderella,

and that's what
I knew I wanted to be.

I wanted to be...

I wanted to sing, and I wanted
to make people happy,

and I wanted to have fun,
and I wanted to be famous.

But, uh...
I'm not sure how a child knows

about being famous, but I knew.

So anyway, I had a crazy,
amazing mother.

And she said to me, you know,
you might not be the prettiest,

you might not be the smartest,

you might not be
the most talented,

but you're special.

And so my mom kept instilling it
into me because it was hard.

I didn't do well in school.

You know, I just
couldn't get it.

I couldn't read.
I couldn't do any of that stuff.

But, um...

she said, you know,

if you... if you...
if you're down and you're out,

you get up again.

And in my life, I have down,
I've been so down...

That you cannot, like
as my mother would say,

lower than
a snake's belly, okay?

That's how down I've been.

And I mean, people have told me
that I was finished,

that I was through,
I have ten minutes.

And... and... and the one thing
that I think I got from my mom

is that I never
gave up, you know?

You go down, you come up.

And... and when Sonny
and I split,

I had no money, okay? Nothing.

And I had a car and my clothes.
And, um, I had to go to Vegas.

And at that point, Vegas
was the elephant's graveyard.

And... and so if you went there,
you had nothing, you know?

And, um, now it's cool

and everybody has
a residency, but, uh...

One night, Francis Ford Coppola
came to one of my shows

and he came backstage

and he said, "You know,
you should be an actress."

And I went, "Okay."

And he said, "Go to New York."

So I went to New York.

And by accident, I got a play.

And from the play, I got
a movie with Meryl Streep.

And... and hone... honestly,
I believe what my mom said,

but I'm lucky, you know?

I've had really
bad things happen.

I was dropped by four labels,
you know?

And then when
it was completely over,

I did Believe,
and it was like, "Yes!"

So I've just been really lucky,

and I have had number one
for seven decades,

which surprises me.

Right.

Because I'm a good singer,
you know?

I'm a good singer.
I'm not a great singer.

Like... like, you know what?

I'll take it.
Uh, no, anyway, and also,

Believe, I... I...
I changed the sound

of music forever, all right?

And... and Believe really
changed the sound of music.

It was an accident
because my producer and I

were having a fight
because he said,

"Cher, do it better."

And Believe was kind of a bitch
in the beginning.

It wasn't that good.

So he said,
"Do it better and do it better."

And I went, "Dude,
if you want it better",

"get another singer. Okay?"

"Because I can't do it better."

And then he called me
later in the afternoon.

He said, "Cher",

"I've been playing around
with the pitch machine,"

"and I think I got something."

So I went back, and, uh...

sitting down,
and he started to play it.

And I was like, "Oh, Jesus."

"Oh, my gosh.
But I'm going to be calm."

And... and then
when it was over,

we both jumped up
and we high-fived each other.

It was so great.
It was like a moment.

And then the head
of my record company,

who I adore, said,
"We can't do that"

"because no one will know
that it's you."

And I went, "Yes."

"Yes, that's the deal."
That's the great part, you know?

That's the great part.

And, um, so, it's just...

my life has been just
a roller coaster.

And the one thing
that I have never done

is I never give up.

I never give up.

And I'm talking to the women.

I'm talking to the women, okay?

You guys are on your own.

You know?

We've been down and out,
and we keep striving,

and we keep going,
and we keep building,

and we are somebody, okay?

We are special.

As my mom would say,
we're special.

So, I want to thank my family,
Chaz, Elijah,

my sister back home,
my brother-in-law, Ivar, and...

my little friend baby,
Slash in 4K,

and Alexander.

So good night
and thank you so much.

There's nothing more
basic than the blues,

and few people in England
know more about them

than Alexis Korner.

The old blues records
used to come

in really as wrapping

for the jazz rarities
in the middle.

Used to wrap the old O.K.

and Jeanette's, Oliver's
and Morton's

and things and put
a few cruddy old blues records

on the outside,
so if anything got broken,

it was only the blues records.

And that's how we started
to come across them here.

Most people in those days
for rhythm and blues,

they were living
with their record collections.

And Alexis managed
to bring it out into the open,

and just for that,
he deserves everything.

The music we played
was very much based

on the old country blues,
because the records

we'd heard were
something like this.

♪ Louise ♪

♪ You're the sweetest
little gal I know ♪

And Alexis sort
of managed

to get a club going and Ealing,

and that's when I
first heard about Alexis.

Some guy has actually got a club

playing rhythm and blues
in London.

♪ Right here, Rosie ♪

♪ Again ♪

♪ When she walks she reels in
Rocks behind ♪

Because the only clubs
that we played,

apart from our own when
we were playing acoustic,

were trad jazz clubs.

But then when we went electric,
it really was a case of out,

and don't you dare
set foot in here again

with all that electricity.

So we had to start our own club,

which was a place
called The Ealing Club.

Alexis was
this incredible father figure

to this amazing generation
of arriving musicians

in 1962, '63, '64, '65.

Alexis was absolutely central
to the development

of British music
as we know it today.

He introduced everybody
to everybody.

He sort of expanded
the club, so to speak.

There was a strange assortment
of people working around then,

all of whom wanted to get
into the blues thing.

Dick Heckstall-Smith
and Graham Bond

and Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker
and Cyril Davies

and Charlie Watts
and Mick Jagger.

♪ Oh, I got three good women
But it's two more in my way ♪

Alexis, what he would do
in the interval, you know,

where they'd take a break,

he would invite anybody
up to fill in the gap,

you know, for 10 or 15 minutes.

And one night,
he invited Mick and me up,

you know, which is
the first time he played

with Charlie Watts.

You see, this is why
we're connected, Alexis

and the Stones, is, uh...
I stole half his band.

♪ Hey, hey, babe
I swear you're built for speed ♪

Alexis Korner,
you're the father

of English blues.

How did that start?

I suppose it started
by virtue of the fact

that I was the oldest cat
around who was prepared

to say that that
was what he was playing.

He was a bluesman,

but he is the father
of British rock and roll,

so if anybody deserves to be

in the Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame,

then it's Alexis Korner.

♪ Than any other gal alive ♪

To induct
Kool & The Gang,

Rock and Roll Hall
of Famer, Chuck D.

Wow.

How y'all doing?

Quest to The Roots know,
we gotta thank Cher.

A lot of rappers gotta
thank Cher, right?

All right, everybody say,
hey, hey, hey!

Hey! Hey! Hey!

We having a celebration tonight,

the get down to the get down,

to the get down on it,
from DT to JT,

to the four-letter hip name
that comes before the gang,

so cool
they became their own slang.

Jersey City Jazzy X
to Soul Town Flames,

1969

when they hit the record game.

Hank, Keith, Spectrum City DJs,
like Mr. Bill, Wildman Steve,

and our own Doc Dre,
us always playing,

I'm just saying
that, hey, hey, hey.

Good Times
is always on our minds

inside Wild and Peaceful times.

To the get down,
to the Jungle Boogie,

get down one time
to the boogie, say, "Uh!"

I always wanted to rap
on that record.

And if that wasn't enough,
there was more Funky Stuff.

Representing their peers
in bands

like Earth, Wind & Fire,
Parliament, Funkadelic.

The J.B.'s already in.

We gotta spill a little funk
to the bands who ain't here,

Ohio Players, Bar-Kays,
Mandrill, Commodores,

Lakeside, Con Funk Shun,
et cetera, et cetera.

And then came the disco days.
It got Too Hot.

Then J.T. came in
and gave it all he got.

Too, too hot
with a gang of new hits.

Joanna to Cherish.

Kool & The Gang remain Fresh

in the best
B-boy vernacular, y'all.

Let it be known,
this is a long-due Celebration.

Y'all know...
Hey, hey, y'all know the deal.

Birthdays, weddings,
sports championships.

Y'all know the drill.

And when they created
the song Celebration,

it was quoted
that the band said,

"We don't know nothing."

"We just celebrate
and praise you, God."

So, here we are,
Celebration, full circle,

in the OH-10,
from Youngstown, right here...

To Cleveland.

Here we are, y'all.

- Say, "Hey, hey, hey."
- Hey, hey, hey!

Here we are.

So, with massive respect,
get your minds, bodies,

and souls in check,

ladies and gentlemen,
for this super bad video

y'all about to get.
Check it out.

Kool & The Gang
is the high watermark for soul,

funk, R&B perfection.

♪ Hollywood ♪

♪ Hollywood swinging ♪

It's like
this amazing collective

of musicians and energy.

♪ And I saw
The Kool & The Gang Show ♪

With Kool & The Gang,
once you started dancing,

you're never gonna stop dancing.

We started
back in 1964,

and we called ourselves
the "Jazziacs."

And jazz was, uh, you know,

the music that we love
and we still love today.

We got involved with backing up
other singing groups

that was more
into R&B or doo-wops.

Then the music started changing.

Our sound started mixing
from jazz to rock.

♪ We party ♪

The record company
came to us and suggested

that we record Soul Makossa

because Soul Makossa was a hit.

We said,
"What? Soul Makossa?"

We decided that we would make up
our own Soul Makossa.

- ♪ Jungle boogie ♪
- ♪ Get up with the get down... ♪

At that point in time,
Kool & The Gang

became "Kool & The Gang,"
for real.

I think of sweaty-ass '70s clubs
with no AC,

women with afros, bell bottoms.

Just pure funk.

But one element that was missing
was the lead vocals.

♪ Mm, oh, yeah
Oh, what a night ♪

- You're the new lead singer.
- How you doing?

- Your name?
- James Taylor.

♪ Yes, it's ladies' night
And the feeling's right ♪

♪ Oh, yes, it's ladies' night
Oh, what a night ♪

♪ Oh, what a night ♪

They heard something
in my voice that was unique.

They felt that I had
a cool-sounding voice

that fit the cool sound.

- ♪ Too hot, lady ♪
- ♪ Too hot ♪

When he sang it, it almost felt
like he was smiling.

It would give the group
an identity.

♪ Get down on it
Get down on it ♪

And our records started
selling more.

It was
a pinpoint focus for us

to take it to the next level.

♪ How you gonna do it if you
Really don't wanna dance ♪

♪ By standing on the wall? ♪

♪ Get your back up
Off the wall... ♪

What keeps
this band together?

We have a leader by the name
of Robert "Kool" Bell.

He's one of my favorite
bass players ever.

It's just knowing where
to make all that space

and just play off the drums.

Let the horns have it
and let the guitars have it.

He's the glue
to this whole thing.

He's the Kool in the Kool.
We are the gang.

♪ Joanna, I love you... ♪

You know, they said,
"Oh, Kool & The Gang sold out."

They sold out.

They're doing songs like Joanna.

We did.
We sold out of every record.

The record company
didn't have

- no problem with that.
- No, no problem.

- ♪ She's fresh, fresh ♪
- ♪ Exciting ♪

♪ She's so exciting to me
Yeah... ♪

There was this amazing
arrangement of music.

And sometimes
it was more musical

than it was actually
a song or a lyric.

They were creating
music for the future.

They supplied us
with a certain bounce.

Kool & The Gang's
one of the most sampled groups

- in hip-hop history.
- ♪ Don't sweat the technique ♪

So many have taken from them.

- ♪ Bad, bad, bad, bad boy ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪

♪ You make me feel so good ♪

Producers and rappers hear it
and are just so,

like, moved by it.
You're just like,

"I wanna do something
with that record."

We are dying to get back
to that energy. I know I am.

I want that energy again.
I want that feeling again.

They have a catalog of,
"You must play at my party."

It's just the way it is.

♪ There's a party going on
right here ♪

♪ A celebration to last
throughout the year ♪

The bass
and the drums,

the rhythm section, the guitar,
they're just so locked in.

It's in your soul, your spirit,

and people start to unite,
sing every word.

♪ Let me hear you
sing it, baby ♪

♪ Come on
Let's all celebrate ♪

Our focus and light
was always on this band

and the music
that we were creating.

Look, we're all about
looking out for each other,

being good to each other
in this world.

♪ Celebrate good times
Come on ♪

♪ Let's celebrate ♪

Put your hands together,
you know.

We just tried to be
good musicians and put good,

positive music out there.

To have that amazing legacy,

when something is that pure,
it has to live forever.

What?

What?

I... Hey, hey, hey.
I don't know about y'all,

but I couldn't stop
moving up here.

I seen y'all shaking and moving
in your seats.

One more time,
say, "Hey, hey, hey."

- Hey, hey, hey!
- What y'all got to say?

Everybody in the house
give it up

in the utmost honor,
respect, and celebration

to the one and only
Kool & The Gang

to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

♪ Uh! ♪

♪ Say hey, hey, hey ♪

♪ What ya got to say? ♪

♪ Say hey, hey, hey ♪

♪ What ya got to say? ♪

♪ Hollywood ♪

♪ Hollywood swinging ♪

♪ Hollywood ♪

♪ Hollywood swinging ♪

♪ Hey, what you gonna do? ♪

♪ You wanna get down? ♪

♪ Hey, what you gonna do? ♪

♪ Do you wanna get down? Hey! ♪

♪ What you gonna do? ♪

♪ You wanna get down? ♪

♪ Hey, what you gonna do? ♪

♪ Do you wanna get down? ♪

Cleveland, come on!

♪ Get down on it
Get down on it ♪

♪ Get down on it ♪

♪ Get down on it
Come on and ♪

♪ Get down on it
Get down on it ♪

♪ Get down on it
Get down on it ♪

♪ Well, how you gonna do it if
you really don't wanna dance ♪

♪ By standing on the wall? ♪

Sing!

♪ Get your back up
off the wall ♪

♪ And tell me ♪

♪ Well, how you gonna do it if
you really don't wanna dance ♪

♪ By standing on the wall? ♪

♪ Get your back up
off the wall ♪

♪ 'Cause I heard
all the people sayin' ♪

- ♪ Get down on it ♪
- ♪ Come on and ♪

- ♪ Get down on it ♪
- ♪ If you really want it ♪

- ♪ Get down on it ♪
- ♪ You gotta feel it ♪

- ♪ Get down on it ♪
- ♪ Get down on it ♪

- ♪ Get down on it ♪
- ♪ Come on and ♪

- ♪ Get down on it ♪
- ♪ Baby, baby ♪

- ♪ Get down on it ♪
- ♪ Get on it ♪

♪ Get down on it ♪

All the ladies
in the house,

let me hear you scream!

♪ Mm, oh, yeah
Oh, what a night ♪

You like this one, huh?
Come on.

Come on!

♪ Oh, yes, it's ladies' night
And the feeling's right ♪

- ♪ Oh, yes, it's ladies' night ♪
- ♪ Oh, what a night ♪

♪ Oh, what a night ♪

♪ Oh, yes, it's ladies' night
And the feeling's right ♪

- ♪ Oh, yes, it's ladies' night ♪
- ♪ Oh, what a night ♪

♪ Girls, y'all got one ♪

♪ A night
that's special everywhere ♪

♪ From New York City
out to Cleveland, Ohio ♪

♪ It's ladies' night ♪

♪ And, girl
the feeling's good ♪

Come on, Kool.

♪ On disco lights
Your name will be seen ♪

♪ You can fulfill
all your dreams ♪

♪ Party here, party there
Everywhere ♪

♪ This is your night, baby
You've got to be there, well ♪

Put your hands together.
Come on.

♪ Tonight, all right ♪

♪ Oh, it's ladies' night ♪

- ♪ Tonight ♪
- ♪ And it feels so right, yeah ♪

♪ All right ♪

♪ Tonight ♪

- ♪ Lady, lady, lady, lady ♪
- ♪ Tonight ♪

- ♪ I love you ♪
- ♪ All right ♪

♪ Get down, get down
Get down, get down ♪

We're taking it back,
a little funk right now.

♪ Get down, get down
Get down, get down ♪

♪ Get down, get down
Get down, get down ♪

- ♪ Get down, get down ♪
- Come on!

♪ Hey, hey ♪

Can you feel it?

♪ Jungle boogie ♪

- ♪ Jungle boogie ♪
- Come on!

- ♪ Jungle boogie ♪
- Oh, yeah!

- ♪ Jungle boogie ♪
- Get down with it, get down.

♪ Jungle boogie ♪

♪ Jungle boogie ♪

- ♪ Jungle boogie ♪
- Come on now.

- ♪ Jungle boogie ♪
- ♪ Everybody, shake it around ♪

Whoo!

How you feeling?

Whoo!

It's a celebration tonight.
Everybody, scream!

♪ Yahoo! ♪

♪ It's a celebration ♪

♪ Yahoo! ♪

♪ This is your celebration ♪

♪ Celebrate good times
Come on! ♪

♪ Let's celebrate, come on now ♪

♪ Celebrate good times
Come on! ♪

♪ Well, let's celebrate ♪

♪ 'Cause there's a party
going on right here ♪

♪ A celebration to last
throughout the years ♪

♪ So, bring your good time
And your laughter too ♪

♪ 'Cause we gonna celebrate
and party with you ♪

- ♪ Come on now ♪
- ♪ Celebration ♪

♪ Let's all celebrate
and have a good time ♪

♪ Celebration ♪

♪ We gon' celebrate
and have a good time ♪

♪ It's time to come together ♪

♪ It's up to you
What's your pleasure? ♪

♪ Everyone around the world
Come on ♪

♪ Celebrate good times
Come on ♪

♪ Let's celebrate ♪

♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪

♪ Celebrate good times
Come on ♪

♪ Come on and celebrate ♪

- ♪ Celebrate good times ♪
- ♪ Tonight ♪

- ♪ Come on ♪
- ♪ Baby, everything's ♪

♪ Gonna be all right
So, let's celebrate ♪

♪ Celebrate good times
Come on ♪

Thank you!

We love you, Cleveland.
Thank you.

Thank y'all. Shit.

Thank you very much.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

I'm a boy
from Youngstown, Ohio...

And made it
to Cleveland, Ohio,

in the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame.

I want to thank, um...

Universal Records,
Warner Brothers, okay,

and definitely
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

for supporting us
for so many years.

My managers... Adil Bayyan
passed in a car accident.

Also... also, uh, Tia Sinclair,
is our new management.

So, we want to thank you.

Now, also,
my family's out there.

My son, Muhammad, Hakim,
Jurnie, and Xavier.

Thank you. Thank you.

Now, I'm gonna go
to the magnificent seven.

George Brown.

My brother, Khalis Bayyan Bell.

"Dee Tee" Thomas.

Robert "Spike" Mickens.

Okay, and Ricky West.

Mr. Hollywood Swinging himself.

Now,
that was the magnificent seven.

They all have passed.

So, now you have me and J.T.

J.T., your mic.

Thank you, Robert.

- Yeah?
- Yeah.

What's up, Cleveland?
How's everybody feeling?

First, I want to thank, um,

the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
for bestowing this upon us.

I'd also like to congratulate
our fellow 2024 inductees

and acknowledge the inductees
of years past.

The artists of whose company
we stand,

of so many generations
and different styles,

all of which have given music
that's foundational,

not only for me,

but for millions across
the oceans.

To join the ranks of them
is a tremendous honor.

It really is.

When I heard we had reached
the summit of our profession,

I instantly thought
of my journey and the people

who assisted me along the way.

First...

I get emotional with this.

I'd like to thank my mother
because she, um...

I made it to the Hall, Mommy.

You know?

Wish she was here.

I'd like to thank my beautiful,
loving wife, Starleana,

for her artistry

and for being
an invaluable business partner.

She's right there.

And I thank... I thank her also

for giving both of us
our wonderful son, Xavier.

He's a film director.

He should be making his debut
next year sometime.

So, look out for him.

And I thank my brothers
and sisters,

my little brother, Doc,

for being by my side
and always having my back.

My family around the countries,

in, uh, Laurens, South Carolina,

Brooklyn, New York,

Hackensack, New Jersey.

And my first band,
the Electro Five, BPB,

Street Dancer,
the Fillet of Soul,

those are groups that I was in.

And I thank
Irene and Charlie Conrad

and Stephan Galfas
and Jim Bonnefond

of House of Music studio.

And Eumir Deodato,
you forever changed my life.

I'd like to thank my lawyers.
You need great lawyers, right?

Hey, you need about
five or 10 of them,

right, guys?

Mr. Stuart Levy,
William Young, and Boyd Cote.

I thank Warner Chappell

and my publicist,
Viveca Ortiz-Torres, and Lede.

And there's many more,

but I can't take up
all the time.

But there's something
my grandmother once told me.

She said, "When you mention
someone's name in reverence",

"you draw their spirit
into your presence."

Yes, she was a wise lady.

So, I'd like for you
to join me in something.

I would like everyone to stand,
if you can,

and shine a light and repeat
after me as loud as you can

as I read the names
of the members who started

and played a major role
in the success

of Kool & The Gang.

Curtis Williams.

Woody Sparrow.

Rick Westfield.

Adil Bayyan.

Clifford Adams.

Charles Smith.

Spike Mickens.

Dennis Thomas.

George Brown.

And our fearless leader,
Mr. Ronald Bell.

And this man right here
that just spoke,

he's the founder,
Mr. Robert Bell,

better known as "Kool."

So, I leave you
with these words.

Let's stand in reverence,

so tomorrow we can climb
even higher.

Make sure you vote.
God bless you all.

To induct
Dionne Warwick

into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame, Teyana Taylor.

Hey, y'all.

How y'all doing?

I said, how y'all doing?

All right, I like that.

Now, you're gonna have
to bear with Auntie,

'cause I wear glasses,
so hold on...

Good... But it match though,
you see?

Okay.

All right, here we go.

When you talk about influence,

you also have
to talk about excellence.

The artist
who I'm here to honor tonight

is the epitome of both.

She is a rule-breaker,
a name-taker, and a hit-maker.

She is the one and the only,
Ms. Dionne Warwick!

Now, some artists

are always going
to be the zeitgeist.

Artists you know
about your whole life,

artists you enjoy,
maybe you become a fan of,

but you never know
who they really are.

It wasn't until I got the role
of a lifetime to play Dionne

in her upcoming biopic,

that I began to learn the depths
of this beautiful woman.

Yes, thank you.

Not only the depths
of her talent,

but of her love of the craft,

her love for her fans,
and her love for humanity.

When you are raised
as a person of faith,

you are raised
with the knowledge

that you can be of service.

And don't think
anyone can disagree

with me when I say
that Ms. Dionne Warwick

has done an incredible service
to this world with her music.

Dionne began her career
singing gospel in the church,

but her big break came
when songwriters

and producers, Burt Bacharach

and Hal David heard her voice
in the studio.

They were blown away
by her range, her ability,

and her amazing talent.

Because she is truly
one of a kind, and they knew it.

Her first major release,

Don't Make Me Over,
was a huge hit,

as well as an anthem
for women across the world.

Uh-huh. Let's clap. Mm-hmm.

Now, that was in 1962,
over six decades ago.

Six decades,
give it up for that.

My girl is working, she working.

Not only was it extremely
difficult for a woman of color

to get a record deal
at that time,

there simply weren't
any other women of color

making pop music like she was.

As a Black woman, we are always
fighting to be seen,

to be heard,
and to be considered.

So, in 1964, when Walk On By
bumped The Beatles

out of the number one spot
on the charts.

You need to understand

the big deal
that was and still is.

Ms. Warwick
did not come to play.

With her, it was just one hit
after another.

Anyone Who Had a Heart,
I Say a Little Prayer,

Do You Know the Way to San Jose,
I'll Never Love This Way Again,

And they go on and on
and on and on.

And now she's still here,
60 years later. Yes.

Yes.

Y'all showing off
for Ms. Warwick, period!

Let's go!

My girl!

As a vocalist...

Ms. Dionne's voice
has this unbelievable range.

It's smooth,
it's sensual and sophisticated.

She's a profound soul singer
who never misses the subtlety

and the nuance
of every lyric she delivers.

There's strength,
there's softness.

Yes, softness.

There's really nothing
else like it.

She is one of the most charted

vocalists of all time.
Clap for that.

Mm-hmm.

She's won six Grammy Awards,

sold over
a hundred million records,

and as we all know,

she is here tonight
to be inducted

into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame!

And while,
Dionne has used her voice

to entertain us,

she's also used it
to help others in need.

That's What Friends Are For,
with her friends Elton John,

Stevie Wonder,
and Gladys Knight.

They raised millions

for the
Foundation for AIDS Research,

and a 100% of the song's
proceeds still go to fund it.

Yes.

She has raised awareness
for the multitude

of other causes,
and she's not done fighting.

Because Dionne, Ms. Dionne,

y'all better put that "Ms."
in that teleprompter.

I'm not gonna hold y'all.

I ain't about
to keep calling her "Dionne."

Ms. Dionne
will always have that fire,

whether it's for her music,
for her family,

for her life,
and for the lives of others.

She is a passionate woman,

and I'm so, so honored
that I get to know her

and be up here
to help her tell her story.

Mm-hmm. All right. Okay.

What the world needs right now
might be love, sweet love,

but what I think it really needs
is more of Miss Dionne Warwick,

yeah!

[♪ Smooth jazz music playing,
Dionne Warwick

Well, I came
from a family of singers,

so music has always
been my life,

and that's what I'm about.

♪ Do you know
the way to San Jose? ♪

♪ I've been away so long
I may go wrong... ♪

Dionne's voice is unique,

individual,
and instantly identifiable.

Nobody sounds like her.

There's no other voice
like hers,

and she has made some
of the best music of all time.

♪ In a week, maybe two
They'll make you a star ♪

All through
my college years I recorded

demo records
and then Burt Bacharach asked me

to record some songs
he's just written

with a brand-new partner,
Hal David.

Hearing what she could do,
she's so phenomenal

and she moved so easily
through things

that would be very stressful
for another singer.

♪ Don't make me over ♪

♪ Now that you know
how I adore... ♪

My favorite song of them all

is my very first record,
Don't Make Me Over.

I think we all have said that
at one time in our lives,

"If you can't accept me
for what I am,

for the things that I did,
just don't make me over."

♪ Accept me for what I am ♪

♪ Accept me
for the things that I do ♪

When we first
started recording,

I don't think anybody knew
what this would end up being.

Do you mind if I sing?

And we kind of really carved

a little musical niche
of our own.

♪ If you see me
walking down the street ♪

♪ And I start to cry
each time we meet ♪

♪ Do what? ♪

♪ Walk on by ♪

♪ A little bit louder now ♪

♪ Walk on by ♪

They wrote specifically
with Dionne Warwick in mind.

So, it was, "Okay,
let's see what she's got now."

♪ I say a little prayer
for you ♪

♪ Forever, forever
you'll stay in my heart ♪

♪ And I will love you... ♪

Every one, every song is just...
It's perfection.

♪ Would only mean
heartbreak for me ♪

She was able to cross
the bridge

between White radio
and Black radio.

And I think it's because she was
able to connect all people,

Black or White, with her music.

I never knew
what a crossover artist was.

I was always taught
that there is only one race,

and that's the human race. And that's
the way I continue to live my life.

♪ What the world needs now ♪

♪ Is love, sweet love ♪

The songs
that were being written

were so different than anything
that was being recorded

at that time. It was a lot
more sophisticated musically.

♪ Promises, promises ♪

♪ This is where
those promises, promises end ♪

♪ I won't pretend... ♪

She's got this clear as a bell
sound that she makes.

And then when she wants
to really hit you, it's huge.

And... Yeah, I'm... You see,
I'm getting goosebumps

talking about that.

♪ So anyone who had a heart ♪

♪ Would take me in his arms
and love me, too ♪

She can keep the emotion
and the movement going

through these notes,
and you believe her.

Bacharach and David
decided to split,

but I felt that whatever I had
had just played itself out.

And finally,
Clive Davis of Arista Records

said, uh, "We need you." And I said,
"Well, we'll give it one more try."

♪ I know ♪

♪ I'll never love
this way again... ♪

She is a national treasure
and in the class by herself,

one of those few

all-time artists.

♪ Why do you have
to be a heartbreaker? ♪

Friendships are very vital to me

and, uh, I called some friends.

[♪ Contemporary jazz
music playing,

Each purchase of this record,

the dollars
that are garnered from it,

every cent of it,
goes towards the research

and hopefully finding
a cure for AIDS.

♪ Keep smiling, keep shining ♪

♪ Knowing you can always
count on me ♪

When people speak to me
about certain songs

that have been a part
of their lives,

it's always with a big,
big smile.

And it's really wonderful
being a part of these

smile times in your life.

♪ I need your love... ♪

If you've never heard
songs like that,

your world would be different.

I think it would
be very safe to say

that I'm standing
on Dionne's shoulders

because she really did create
a path that didn't exist

and ran down it.

I've been blessed.

I really have
truly been blessed.

♪ Oh ♪

Here to pay tribute
to the extraordinary,

Miss Dionne Warwick,
Jennifer Hudson!

♪ You looked inside
my fantasies ♪

♪ And made each one come true ♪

♪ Something no one else
had ever found a way to do ♪

♪ I've kept the memories
one by one when you took me in ♪

♪ I know I'll never love
this way again ♪

♪ I know I'll never love
this way again ♪

♪ I'll keep holding on
before the good is gone ♪

♪ I know I'll never love
this way again ♪

♪ Hold on ♪

♪ Hold on ♪

♪ Hold on ♪

Please give it up for the one
and only, Dionne Warwick.

♪ A fool will lose tomorrow
reaching back for yesterday ♪

♪ I won't turn my head in sorrow
if you should go away ♪

♪ No, I'll stand right here ♪

♪ And remember
just how good it's been ♪

♪ I know I'll never love
this way again ♪

- ♪ I know... ♪
- ♪ Know ♪

- ♪ Never love this way again ♪
- ♪ ...I'll never love ♪

- ♪ So, I'll keep holding on ♪
- ♪ Holding on ♪

- ♪ Before the good is gone ♪
- ♪ Good is gone ♪

- ♪ I know I'll never... ♪
- ♪ I know ♪

- ♪ Never love this way again ♪
- ♪ ...Love this way again ♪

- ♪ Hold on ♪
- ♪ Hold on ♪

♪ Hold on ♪

- ♪ Hold on ♪
- ♪ Hold on ♪

- ♪ Hold on ♪
- ♪ Hold on ♪

♪ I know I'll never ♪

- ♪ Love this way again ♪
- ♪ Love this way again ♪

♪ I'll keep ♪

- ♪ Holding on ♪
- ♪ Holding on ♪

♪ Before the good is gone ♪

♪ I know I'll never ♪

- ♪ Love this way again ♪
- ♪ Love this way again ♪

- ♪ Hold on ♪
- ♪ Hold on ♪

- ♪ Hold, hold on ♪
- ♪ Hold on ♪

♪ I know I'll never ♪

♪ Love this way again ♪

- ♪ So I keep holdin' on... ♪
- ♪ Holdin' on ♪

♪ ...Until the good is gone ♪

♪ I know I'll never ♪

♪ Love this way again ♪

- ♪ I keep holdin' on ♪
- ♪ Hold on ♪

- ♪ Hold on ♪
- ♪ Hold on ♪

♪ Hold on ♪

- ♪ Hold on ♪
- ♪ On ♪

♪ If you see me
walking down the street ♪

♪ And I start to cry
each time we meet ♪

♪ Do what? ♪

♪ Walk on by ♪

♪ A little bit louder now ♪

♪ Walk on by ♪

♪ Make believe
that you don't see the tears ♪

♪ Just let me grieve in private
'cause each time I see you ♪

♪ I break down and cry ♪

♪ I cry, walk on by ♪

♪ Don't you dare stop
And walk on by ♪

♪ Don't stop ♪

♪ Walk on by ♪

♪ I just can't get over
losing you ♪

♪ And so if I seem
broken and blue ♪

♪ Walk on by, walk on by ♪

♪ Foolish pride
that's all that I have left ♪

♪ So let me hide
the tears and the sadness ♪

♪ You gave me
when you said goodbye ♪

♪ You said goodbye
so walk on by ♪

♪ Don't stop, walk on by ♪

♪ Don't stop, now you really
gotta walk on, walk on by ♪

♪ Don't stop ♪

♪ Baby, till you never see
them tears, don't cry ♪

♪ Don't stop, walk on by ♪

♪ Walk on by ♪

♪ Walk on by ♪

Thank you!

Oh, my God.

Oh, boy.

Thank you so very,
very much, first of all.

And I must give honor... to God.

Yes, the Most High.

This evening...

I am receiving...

another...

award.

And I must also say that...

in any ball game,

three strikes,
you are considered to be out.

Well, this is the third time
that I have been told

that I was nominated
for this particular award.

And they finally got it right.

I got to the point where I said,
"You know,"

"y'all can keep this award."

To be considered to be enrolled

into the Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame.

I am so pleased to be here.

To celebrate with those
that I love most and above all.

Both of my sons
are with me tonight.

My niece is with me tonight.

And my alter ego is here
with me tonight.

I'm gonna just say this
and get on off the stage.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Whoa. It's heavy.

And now,
Rock & Roll Hall of Famer,

Tom Morello.

Hello, everybody,
I'm Tom Morello.

The MC5 crystallized '60s
counterculture movement

at its most volatile
and threatening.

They were as bold
and as musically adventurous

as experimental jazz,

as militant and as stylish
as the Black Panther Party,

and as loud and as dangerous
as a Detroit riot.

But perhaps
their greatest accomplishment

was that the MC5 in sound
and in attitude

laid the cornerstone for one
of rock's most exciting

and important genres.

Before the Ramones,
before the Sex Pistols,

before The Clash,
there was the MC5,

inventing the template
of raw power

and irreverent attitude
that became punk rock.

Their previously
unimagined amalgam

of jazz improvisation,
garage rock,

and James Brown dance moves
was forged with raw fury,

molten adrenaline,
and political purpose.

And as a live act,
they were without peer.

As the tear gas began to fly

during the massive
anti-war riots

at the 1968
Democratic National Convention

in Chicago, every other band
on the bill

chickened out and canceled.

Only the MC5 stood firm

and played a defiant
eight-hour set

for the protesters.

And when they hit the stage

and shouted, "Kick out
the jams, motherfuckers,"

the promise...

The promise
of Elvis' Jailhouse Rock

was made reality,
and the future path

of every musician
who dreamed of raging

against the machine
was made clear.

In these few lines,

they encapsulated
the redemptive power

of living, breathing, playing,

and believing
in the irresistible force

of truly revolutionary music.

"Let me up on the stand
and let me kick out the jams.

"Put that mic in my hand
and let me kick out the jams."

"Let me be who I am
and let me kick out the jams."

Their visionary poet
of a manager, John Sinclair,

vocalist, Rob Tyner,
bassist, Michael Davis,

drummer,
Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson,

guitarist, Fred "Sonic" Smith,

and my dear, forever friend,
and forever comrade,

Brother Wayne Kramer,
have sadly all passed away.

But, wherever and whenever
any of us summon up the guts

and the courage to get up
on the stand

and kick out
the motherfucking jams,

the spirit of the MC5
will be right there with us.

MC5, welcome home
to where you belong

in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

And now I give you
the MC5!

What the MC5 represented
was a sense of possibility

that we could invent
a new music.

♪ Love is like a ramblin' rose ♪

The MC5, they're punk
before there's punk.

♪ Ramblin' rose, ramblin' rose ♪

♪ Ramblin' rose, come on ♪

We were from this
working class city, Detroit.

Growing up, it was a boom town.

♪ Something snapped inside
Made me want to hide ♪

By '67, there was a gap
growing in America.

♪ Let your love come down, baby
In the midnight hour... ♪

Why isn't
the policeman your best friend?

Why isn't he? It's hard to say.

You would think
that he would be.

All the pressures
and influences of the day

came to bear on us.

Those are the things
that we should be exposing

in our music.

MC5 was the first band
to come along

with amps turned all the way up
and have really profound lyrics.

♪ They told you in school
about freedom ♪

♪ But when you try to be free
they never let ya ♪

♪ They said, "It's easy..." ♪

The MC5 had this vision of music

as a battering ram
for social change.

♪ I'm sick and tired
of paying these dues ♪

♪ And I'm finally getting hip
to the American... ♪

They were a good,
solid, tough little band.

♪ Kick out the jams
Motherfuckers! ♪

You have
two monster guitar players

that burn you
and leave scar tissue.

♪ Yeah! ♪

Their albums, their live show,

what they did with music
was a life changer.

♪ When you're doin' it right
Let me up on the stand ♪

♪ And let me kick out... ♪

That unbridled,

in-your-face
rock and roller attack,

it wasn't like what
anybody else was doing.

♪ I have to kick 'em out ♪

This idea,
you could be political

and you could tell the truth,

that wasn't working
so well anymore.

♪ No, no, no, no
I see people dyin'... ♪

The MC5 was not
extremely successful,

but we laid down an influence
that is still being felt today.

The lineage from punk
to heavy metal, hard rock,

acid rock, there are few
that have that kind of impact

like the MC5 did.

♪ You can't hear
what the teachers say ♪

♪ The news
is going down about... ♪

The music is visceral.
It's passionate.

It regards
your civic responsibility.

It's standing on stage
and flipping off the world.

That's the MC5.

♪ Whoa, tonight... ♪

We were young
and we were arrogant

we were outrageous,
but we were right.

♪ I said bye-bye ♪

To induct Foreigner,

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer
Sammy Hagar.

Yeah! Hello. Well...

everybody sounds very happy,
that's a good thing.

Keep this a big happy affair.

Uh, I'm here to induct Foreigner
into the Hall of Fame.

Yeah.

That being said,
the first thing I want to do

is congratulate the fans,
the Foreigner fans,

'cause you guys had a lot
to do with getting this done.

Yeah...

It was more like abduction
than induction, you know?

Anyway, first things first.

So, we all have asked ourselves,
all us musicians out there,

we've asked ourselves
many times,

what's the criteria?

How do you get
into the Hall of Fame, you know?

What do you need to do?
What do you have to have done?

And, you know,
you think about it,

there should be some rules.

Uh, you've gotta have
at least one big hit, right?

One big hit song, right?
That would be...

Yeah, okay, so you're a rocker.

Well, Foreigner has had
nine mega hits

in the top 100 in Billboard.

Nine mega hits,
not one, nine, okay?

Boom, qualified, okay.

Number two, should have, like,
a gold record,

a platinum record, you know,
a million-selling record.

I think that would do well.

Here comes Foreigner
with 80 million records sold...

six top ten albums,

including Foreigner 4,
my favorite album of theirs,

which spent ten weeks
at number one, okay?

Qualified, right?
Boom, okay? All right.

Then, I think
being an old elder myself,

I think being around
long enough,

they're eventually gonna
bring you in.

You know what I mean?
It's like you got...

It may take some time.

So, I think the longer
you can be around...

Longevity's probably
a good factor, right?

Well, they formed in '77.

They're still filling arenas
and amphitheaters

around the country.

And it is not even
any original members.

That's how good the songs were.
That's how good the music is.

Okay? Come on now. All right.

They could have been
in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

20 years ago. It's all right.

They're here now.
So, it's okay.

I was thinking backstage,
I was thinking,

you know, maybe is what took
so long with Foreigner,

'cause they got everything
else going for them,

I thought maybe
they just weren't glamorous,

and maybe
they weren't pretty enough.

You know what I mean?

You know, hey.

Then I walk out and I see Cher
up here, and I'm thinking,

if that were the case,

she would've been
in the Hall of Fame

about ten times by now
for every time

she reinvented herself.

Welcome, Cher.

Congratulations,
you know, really.

What was I thinking? Okay.

But when I think of Foreigner,

I go way back with the founder,

along with Lou Gramm,
but Mick Jones, he...

We go back to the early '70s.

My first tour as a singer

in a little band
called Montrose,

we were on tour with...

We were on tour
with Spooky Tooth,

and Mick was in Spooky Tooth,

and we were both opening
for Humble Pie,

which brings us
to Peter Frampton,

who, you know,
was Humble Pie alumni.

Congratulations, Peter,
an old friend, too.

And we toured for a year.

Mick and I
became really close friends.

We're still close friends,
and...

I'm really sad
that he's not here tonight.

He deserves this
more than anyone, and...

But he's out there watching,
I'll tell you right now,

and we can just look at Mick
in the eye and say,

"Mick, we love and miss you,
and congratulations."

We'll start right there, okay.

But...

But Mick, after a year
on the tour, fast forward,

I ran into Mick
at some concert somewhere,

and I said,
"What are you doing, Mick?"

He's going, "Well,
I'm starting a new band."

"I found this young, hot singer
out of Rochester, New York,"

right?

So, me being a singer,
first thing I say,

"Well, what's he sing like?"
You know?

And he says,
"Well, he's kind of like a cross"

"between, like, you
and Paul Rodgers."

And I'm going, "Oh,
two of my favorites."

So, you know,
some more time passes.

I'm out driving one day
in my car, really fast.

Um, I turn on the radio,
and it was in the middle

of Feels Like the First Time.

And it was the first time
I ever heard

Feels Like the First Time,
right?

And I didn't know who it was.

And I'm listening,
and I'm going, "Damn",

"this guy's singing
his ass off," you know?

And, you know, being a singer,
you start getting jealous

and say, "Well, who is this?"
You know?

"What's going on here?"
You know?

And Mick always had
a really fat guitar sound,

Les Paul
through a Marshall stack.

And I heard that guitar,
and I'm thinking,

"This must be... "
I just had a feeling

that it was Mick's new band,
Foreigner.

I thought, "You know,
I've never heard these people."

"It's gotta be them."

And sure enough, it was.
And I've been a fan ever since.

And...

I don't know, they just had
the biggest string of hits.

I mean, how many...
I mean, we all...

Some of you grew up with them.
Well, I grew up with them,

you know?

And it just... They went on
with just hit after hit,

and they weren't just hits,

they were really versatile
kind of songs.

You know, like they would go,
you know, heavy rock stuff,

and first of all,
that's the other thing.

How they got
those heavy rock songs

on Top 40 radio
back in those days, no, no, no.

"Oh, you can't play that song,
it's too heavy."

And they're on Top 40 radio,

and it's because the songs
were that good.

It was really...
They're that commercial,

they're that sing-songy,
they're that...

But they were
heavy rock tunes. So...

You know,
they start coming with things

like Waiting
for a Girl Like You,

and then all of a sudden
you hear...

Man, you know, it just...

You start hearing Lou's voice
singing sweet,

like, I'm going, "Man, I didn't
know he could sing like that."

Anyway, they just blew my mind.

Every time they came out
with a new record,

they were just great,
great, great.

And then, the clincher for me
was Juke Box Hero.

For me...

But, damn!

Every musician I know,
and I know a lot of you

are out here thinking
the same thing,

the first time you heard
that song,

you know you were jealous.
You went, "Aw, damn!"

I mean, it was heavy, hard.

They were singing about us,
singing about our lives,

you know, being
in music business.

And it was just so good
and so heavy.

And that...

that song, the way Lou's voice
sounds in that song,

he pushed himself so far,
I'm just going,

"Dude, how are you
gonna do that?"

You know, it's like on tour,

and we just talked
about it backstage,

and, you know,

you're in the studio,
just wanna give it all you got,

and that's, to me,
that's one of the greatest

rock vocal performances ever.

And then, just when you think,

"All right, now what
are they gonna do?"

They drop a song like
I Want to Know What Love Is.

Hands down,

one of the greatest
ballad love songs ever written.

And, my word,

Bridge over Troubled Water,
you know,

Hey Jude, you know,
I Want to Know What Love Is,

right? They're in that league.

And that's when I said,

"Yeah, these guys belong
in the Hall of Fame."

That's all I'm trying
to say, okay. So...

That's why Al Greenwood,
Dennis Elliott,

Rick Wills, Lou Gramm,
a great, great singer,

Mick Jones, Ed Gagliardi,

and Ian McDonald,

that's why they belong
in the Hall of Fame,

and that's what I'm here
to induct them.

Yes.

I set out
to do something important.

We were trying to sort of
create something new

with unjaded musicians.

I was the only jaded one
in the bunch.

Mick hadn't found
a singer yet,

so he called me and asked me
to come down and audition.

I made my way to New York,
and in a studio

with Mick and Ian,
proceeded to give it a shot.

♪ It feels like the first time ♪

♪ Feels like
the very first time ♪

Foreigner sounded tough,
but very melodic.

But at the same time,

it had this sheen to it,
a little bit of a polish.

♪ You're as cold as ice ♪

♪ You're willing
to sacrifice our love ♪

Lou Gramm has an amazing voice.

It's filled with passion,
like it's pleading with you.

He is one of the great
rock singers.

♪ I'm hot-blooded! ♪

Mick Jones.

Guitar hooks with a great tone
that everybody wants to play,

that I wish I wrote.

Being a riff guitarist
was just loaded with things

that were great
to hang a vocal line on.

♪ Well, I'm hot blooded
Check it and see ♪

♪ I got a fever of a 103 ♪

We were called,
at one point, like,

one of the faceless bands,

you know, which...
I sort of resented.

Critics hated the band, yeah.

And that's okay. I hate critics.

The second album
was quite different

than the first album.

It was more sort of
an inner pressure

that we felt we had to live up
to what we'd achieved, you know?

♪ Fill my eyes
with that double vision ♪

I played that record a lot!

It just popped on the radio.
It sounded so good.

♪ My double vision gets
the best of me ♪

Mick was the arranger
and the writer

and the rock star
at the same time, you know?

I was the taskmaster,
I guess.

I expected so much
out of everybody.

♪ Head games
That's all I get from you ♪

♪ Head games
And I can't take it anymore ♪

Every band, you know,
has to evolve and...

go through the changes
that are in the music business,

but also the changes
within the band.

We decided to take
the band down to four people.

That was probably the toughest part
of the whole thing.

It's true the best
the band has ever been

was the 4 tour, which was...
it was more focused.

♪ He heard one guitar
Just blew him away ♪

♪ Stars in his eyes ♪

That album really defined
my vision of the band.

♪ Well, now he needs to
keep on rockin' ♪

♪ He ain't never gonna stop ♪

♪ He's gotta keep on rockin' ♪

It felt more like a group
as a four-piece band

than it ever did as a six.

♪ And be a juke box hero ♪

We just knew
that we were going to kick butt

from the time
we stepped on stage.

There was just a real pride.

♪ But I know, yes, I know
How to treat you right ♪

♪ That's why you call me
in the middle of the night ♪

♪ You say it's urgent ♪

It's the only ballad
we've ever done.

It's called
Waiting for a Girl Like You.

If your vocalist
is capable of rocking out

and getting on stage
and bringing that kind of energy

and that kind of passion
to something,

imagine that on a ballad.

♪ I've been waiting
for someone new ♪

♪ To make me feel alive ♪

The ballad is a way
to uncover hidden feelings

in a way that I wouldn't
in a rock and roll song.

♪ I've gotta take
a little time ♪

♪ A little time
to think things over ♪

I Want to Know
What Love Is,

I remember hearing that
as a kid.

I found myself just bawling,
you know?

And then hearing it now,
even, it hits me the same.

And I think that's kind of what
makes it a classic.

♪ I want to know what love is ♪

The message
is so beautiful,

but his voice
is what really carried it

to the next level.

♪ I want you to show me ♪

It was huge.

It was our first
number one single.

And it was number one everywhere
in the world, pretty much.

We silenced
a lot of doubters.

♪ I know you can show me ♪

We proved live
that we were a band

to be reckoned with.

- ♪ Love that you feel inside ♪
- ♪ I want you to show me ♪

They make
a lot of people happy

with this great music
that they've made.

And they deserve to be
in the fucking Hall of Fame.

♪ Come on and show me, yeah ♪

♪ What love is ♪

Whoo! Yes, they do.

Now here is Foreigner's
touring band,

along with Chad Smith,
Dr. Chad Smith on drums,

Slash on guitar,

and kicking it off
with Demi Lovato.

♪ I would climb any mountain ♪

♪ Sail across the stormy seas ♪

♪ If that's
what it takes me, baby ♪

♪ To show how much
you mean to me ♪

♪ And I guess
it's just the woman in you ♪

♪ That brings out
the man in me ♪

♪ I know I can't help myself ♪

♪ You're all in the world
to me ♪

♪ It feels like the first time ♪

♪ Feels like
the very first time ♪

♪ It feels like the first time ♪

♪ It feels like
the very first time ♪

♪ I have waited a lifetime ♪

♪ Spent my time so foolishly ♪

♪ But now that I've found you ♪

♪ Together, we'll make history ♪

♪ And I know it must be
the woman in you ♪

♪ That brings out
the man in me, yeah ♪

♪ I know I can't help myself ♪

♪ You're all
that my eyes can see ♪

♪ It feels like the first time ♪

♪ Like it never did before ♪

♪ Feels like
the first time, oh ♪

♪ Like we've opened up
the door ♪

♪ Feels like
the first time, oh ♪

♪ Like it never will again ♪

♪ Never again ♪

♪ It feels like the first time ♪

♪ It feels like
the very first time ♪

♪ The very first time ♪

- ♪ Feels like the first time ♪
- ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪

♪ It feels like
the very first time ♪

Please welcome Sammy Hagar!

- ♪ Hot blooded ♪
- ♪ Just check and see ♪

- ♪ I got a fever ♪
- ♪ Burning inside of me ♪

- ♪ Come on, baby ♪
- ♪ Do you do more than dance? ♪

♪ I'm hot blooded
I'm hot blooded ♪

Whoo!

♪ You don't have
to read my mind ♪

♪ To see what's on my mind ♪

♪ Honey, you oughta know ♪

- ♪ You move so fine ♪
- ♪ You move so fine ♪

- ♪ Let me lay it on the line ♪
- ♪ Let me lay it on the line ♪

♪ I gotta know, huh ♪

♪ What you're doin'
after the show ♪

♪ Now it's up to you ♪

♪ We can have
a secret rendezvous ♪

♪ Baby, just me and you ♪

♪ I'll show you loving
like you never knew ♪

♪ Sing it! 'Cause I'm... ♪

- ♪ Hot blooded ♪
- ♪ You check it and see, yeah ♪

- ♪ I got a fever ♪
- ♪ Burning inside of me, yeah ♪

- ♪ Come on, baby ♪
- ♪ Can you do more than dance? ♪

♪ I'm hot blooded
I'm hot blooded ♪

Slash!

Doc!

Oh, yeah!

Mr. Kelly Hansen!

♪ Now it's up to you ♪

Say what?

♪ Can we make
a secret rendezvous? ♪

Uh-huh!

♪ Oh! Before we do ♪

♪ You've got to get away
from me, you know ♪

Sing it!

- ♪ Well, I'm hot blooded ♪
- ♪ Every night ♪

- ♪ Hot blooded ♪
- ♪ You're lookin' so tight ♪

- ♪ Hot blooded ♪
- ♪ You're driving me wild ♪

♪ I'm hot blooded, hot blooded ♪

Thank you.

Whoo!

Now, the real singer's
coming out.

Welcome, Ms. Kelly Clarkson.

♪ I've gotta take
a little time ♪

♪ A little time
to think things over ♪

♪ I better read
between the lines ♪

♪ In case I need it
when I'm older ♪

♪ In my life, there's been
heartache and pain ♪

♪ I don't know
if I can face it again ♪

♪ Can't stop now
I've traveled so far ♪

♪ To change
this lonely life, oh! ♪

♪ I want to know what love is ♪

♪ I want you to show me ♪

Sing!

♪ I want to feel what love is ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ I know you can show me ♪

♪ Oh! ♪

Give it up for Lou Gramm!

♪ I'm gonna take a little time ♪

♪ A little time
to look around me ♪

♪ See I've got nowhere
left to hide ♪

♪ Looks like love
has finally found me ♪

♪ In my life, there's been
heartache and pain ♪

♪ I don't know
if I can face it again ♪

♪ Can't stop now
I've traveled so far ♪

- ♪ To change this lonely life ♪
- ♪ To change this lonely life ♪

♪ I want to know ♪

♪ I want to know what love is ♪

♪ I want to know what love is ♪

♪ I want you to show me ♪

♪ Yeah, I want to feel! ♪

- ♪ I want to feel what love is ♪
- ♪ I want to feel what love is ♪

♪ I want to feel what love is ♪

♪ I know you can show me ♪

- ♪ I want to know ♪
- ♪ Let's talk about love ♪

♪ I want to know what love is ♪

♪ Let me tell you what love is ♪

♪ I want you to show me ♪

♪ And I want to feel ♪

♪ Feel what love is ♪

♪ And I know, and I know ♪

♪ I know you can show me ♪

♪ Show me love is real ♪

♪ Show me love is real, yeah ♪

Give it up for Lou Gramm!
Come on!

Give it up for Foreigner!

Thank you, Kelly.

Whoo!

Hello, Cleveland.

Sorry, that's what
my father would say.

Or no,
he would say it more like...

Hello, Cleveland!

Well, that's what he would say
countless times

when we would find ourselves
in tunnels, backstage,

in cities all over the world,

all of which were not Cleveland.

And... I would laugh anyway.

Even though I didn't get
the Spinal Tap reference.

That was lost on me.

Back then, also,
I think it was lost on me

the significance that my father,

with his Les Paul in hand,

was about to step on stage
and ignite the passion

of 20,000 fans.

So, now, huge benchmark for me.

I get to say it on the stage...

you know, at the Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame in this city.

Although, of course,
I wish it were him.

And he wishes
he could be here now.

And...

I'm just gonna say it.

He's in New York,
and he's watching from home.

Love you, Daddy.

So, I'm just gonna say
a quick few words.

I'm gonna speak his words.

"Rock and roll
was the first thing

"that grabbed me.

"In my escape,
I'd practice for hours,

"listening to Chuck Berry,
Buddy Holly,

"trying to figure out
their riffs, never stopping.

"Music was the only thing
I wanted to do.

"There was no Plan B.

"I just wanted to write songs,

"and write them,
not just play them.

"So, I learned
to speak through song."

"By the time
Foreigner came together,

"it was clear
what I wanted it to be.

"It was about creating music
that would last.

"And I think that we managed
to capture that.

"Thanks to my brothers
in song..."

"My brothers in song
and rock and roll,

"who helped build this legacy
from the very first single,

"Lou, Dennis, Al.

"And of course, Rick Wills

"and Ian and Ed,
who sadly are no longer with us.

"Our incredible manager,
Bud Prager,

"our Atlantic Records family,

"who took us
to the highest of heights.

"Thank you, Kelly, Jeff,
Michael, Chris, Bruce,

"and Louis,
for keeping Foreigner alive

"for the last two decades.

"A special..."

"And a special thanks
to my dear friends,

"Phil Carson and Stewart Young,

"and the whole management team
who worked tirelessly

"to keep the wheels turning.

"I want to thank
the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

"for this giant honor,

"especially Rick Krim,
for nominating us,

"and my old friend, John Sykes.

"I'm lucky to have a partner
and a family

"that understand my passion,
making this possible.

"I thank my children,
my wife, Anne.

"They are everything to me.

"But above all, above all,
what's most important

"is that we wouldn't be here
without the fans,

"so I want to thank the fans,
the listeners..."

Yes!

"The dreamers who made
this journey possible.

"Thank you to everyone

"who has been a part
of this incredible odyssey."

"Rock and roll is forever."

- Well done.
- Whoo!

- Whoo!
- Well done.

- Well said, great job.
- Well done.

Thank you.

First, I'd like to thank
all of my Foreigner bandmates,

Mick Jones, Ian McDonald,
Al Greenwood, Dennis Elliott,

Ed Gagliardi, and Rick Wills

for 30 plus years
of great music and a wild ride.

Now, right from the start,
Mick and I hit it off

in our first
songwriting session.

The chemistry
for many of our biggest hits

was the Jones-Gramm
collaboration.

Although the band
went through some changes

as time went on,

I believe the original band

encompassed what Foreigner
was all about.

As I think back
about those times,

I'm convinced that Ian McDonald
and Ed Gagliari,

who have passed on
to a better place,

were pivotal players
and personalities

in Foreigner's early success.

Lastly, I'd like to close
by thanking my friend

and songwriting partner,
Mick Jones.

Along with the many triumphs
and accolades,

we didn't always agree

about Foreigner's
musical directions,

but all told,
we were very fortunate

to have been
in Foreigner together,

and our music continues
to stand the test of time.

Hello, Cleveland!

This is Rick Wills,
the bass player, as you know.

I have had the best time
in this band

you could ever have,
believe you me.

I love these guys,
and I love the guys

that are doing what we do,
or we did,

and they're still
doing it today, 47 years later.

It's amazing.

So, I want to thank you all

and thank the Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame

for giving us
this opportunity to finally

be Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame people.

Thank you!

Whoa!

And a very, very special thanks
to Mick Jones.

The founder, the visionary,

and the creative force
behind Foreigner.

Yes.

We wish that he were here
with us tonight.

And to all of our fans

who have been with us
for 47 years,

spanning generations,

we love you all
and we thank you.

We love you!

Mr. Norman Whitfield.

The name may not
strike you immediately,

but I think
the more you get into it,

the more I think
you'll find out,

"Hey, I know that song."

I'm telling you,
at sporting events,

anywhere you go, you hear that,
you know what's coming.

♪ Working at the car wash ♪

♪ Working at
the car wash, yeah ♪

I'm sorry, the hand clap

is Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame right there.

♪ Whoo!
Come, some of the work... ♪

Norman Whitfield
turned out to be

one of the most prolific
producers and writers

in the history
of the music business.

And Norman
was a killer producer.

Here we see Norman
working with The Temptations.

When I first came to Motown,

I didn't have anything in mind
in the beginning

except just trying
to get a hit record.

♪ Ain't too proud to beg
and you know it ♪

♪ Please don't leave me, girl ♪

Norman would come
into our offices,

"Hey, take that off,
it's garbage."

"Boy, you want to hear a hit?
Put this on."

[♪ perky soul music playing,
Gladys Knight & the Pips

♪ Don't you know that I heard it
through the grapevine? ♪

There was actually
a Gladys Knight & the Pips version

of Heard It
Through the Grapevine.

♪ Not much longer
would you be mine ♪

He did it in a way that fit
Gladys Knight & the Pips.

[♪ laid-back soul music playing,
Marvin Gaye

When he revisited
the song with Marvin Gaye,

all of a sudden, you have
a whole different arrangement.

♪ People say
"Believe half of what you see ♪

♪ "Son, and none
of what you hear" ♪

Now,
if somebody's buying

two or three million records,
that is a direct indication

that they like
what you're doing.

♪ Don't you know I heard it
through the grapevine? ♪

♪ Not much longer
would you be mine ♪

I think the most
revolutionary thing

that Norman Whitfield
probably would be known for

was the transition
that The Temptations made...

[♪ romantic soul music playing,
The Temptations

From being
love ballad-type guys...

♪ It was just my imagination ♪

to all of a sudden
talking about Cloud Nine...

♪ Cloud Nine! ♪

and Papa Was A Rollin' Stone.

[♪ funky soul music playing,

I said, "Ooh, the track is..."

"funkier than
an unwashed armpit."

♪ Papa was a rolling stone ♪

Norman, he wanted
to take the Motown

in a different direction,

so he brought
the protest element to it.

- ♪ War, huh, yeah ♪
- ♪ What is it good for? ♪

- ♪ Absolutely ♪
- ♪ Nothing! ♪

Not only did he talk
about the war,

but he did it
in such a powerful way,

you had to listen to

what he was putting down
and what he was saying.

- ♪ Say it again, y'all ♪
- ♪ War ♪

His approach to songwriting
and to production is unmatched.

♪ I'm going down ♪

Good songs
will always take preference

over the so-called trends.

♪ My whole world's upside down ♪

[♪ Thrilling rock music playing,

To induct Peter Frampton,

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer,
Roger Daltrey.

Fuck this.

I feel like I'm running
for president.

I'll use this one.

Well, I've got to tell you,

when I was asked to come
and present this award

to Peter Frampton,
I was astonished

that this guy wasn't inducted
35 years ago.

I mean...

All I can say
is that it's about bloody time.

But let's remember
the people that started

this wonderful journey
that music is on.

You know, Chuck Berry,
Little Richard,

Jackie Wilson, Eddie Cochran,
Jerry Lee, all those great...

Buddy Holly...
It goes on and on!

You know, this business
and this career

that we've all embarked on

is so rewarding,
and it's wonderful.

And Peter has had the most
amazing career of all time.

It's... He...

It's probably easier
to name the people

that he hasn't worked with,
than to name the people he has.

I'm telling you,

from the age of six,
all he ever wanted to be

was a guitarist in a rock band.

And...

I first met him in 1968,

when I was on tour
with The Who and Traffic,

and he... Yeah, I mean...

In those days,
you'd do ten minutes,

- and...
- ...hook.

And the next band came on.

But anyway, Peter was
the lead guitarist and singer

in a band called "The Herd."

And on that tour,

Peter traveled
with Keith Moon in his Bentley

and he survived
endless pranks and japes

and I did think
to myself then that,

"Wow, this guy's a survivor."

But Peter
is a restless soul and, I mean...

He really is. And...

You know, he was always flitting
from band to band.

And that year,
later that year, he...

he was on the front cover
of a teen magazine

as the face of '68.

This led Peter to believe

that The Herd
were at the pinnacle

of their decline.

So his next move had to be
a really big one, and it was.

He joined up
with Steve Marriott,

who had just
left the Small Faces.

And he...

They formed Humble Pie.

Now, that music
was far more soulful

and his guitar playing

and the music
became much heavier.

But after two years of success
with Humble Pie,

Peter finally went solo.

And he had
four successful solo albums.

And then in 1976,

it was the big one
that we all remember.

Frampton Comes Alive!

Wow! Unmatched!
Unprecedented!

It was the biggest selling
live record

of all time in its day.

And it still sells well today.

But for me,
the success of that album

was more than just Peter live
and everything else.

It was the songs.

You know...

Show Me the Way,
Do You Feel Like I Do?

Baby, I Love Your Way.
Whoa!

You know, they propelled Peter

to a whole new level
of superstardom.

And...

Rolling Stone in that year
had him on the front cover

in a very seductive pose
with no shirt,

and long, blonde flowing hair.

And I've got to tell you,
when I saw that,

I thought,
"Blimey, a doppelganger."

Oh, my God!

I remember one time
I was going through an airport

with Pete Townshend

and I got chased by a flock

of teenage girls

screaming, "Peter! Peter!"

And as I rushed through the gate
and finally got on the plane,

Townshend came up behind me

and he said,
"Roger, you're really lucky."

"They think
you're Peter Frampton."

And then he said,

"You're really, really lucky"

"because they think
I'm Tiny Tim."

And that used to happen a lot.

I used to get mistaken
for Peter.

But throughout
his entire career,

he's always been
a restless soul.

And... But he really stayed true
to his main love,

which was the guitar.

And it's no surprise
that his first ever Grammy

came from the record
and the album, Fingerprints,

where he never sang a note.

Absolutely amazing.

But then in 1969... Oh, '69...

Sorry, wrong year.
It comes with age.

It's coming to you all.

In 2019, he...

What the fuck happened?

He announced a farewell tour...

and...

And told the world that he was
suffering from IBM,

which is a progressive
muscular disease.

And myself and Peter,
I'm sure, everyone,

felt that this might be the end
of his playing career.

So, he set out on this tour,

and he realized
he could keep playing.

So, he set out on another tour,
which is Never Say Never Tour.

Followed by
the Never EVER Say Never Tour.

Which then was followed
by the Positively Thankful

For Never Ever Saying
Ever Never Never

Ever Ever Ever Ever Again Tour.

And here he is today,

he's thankfully
still playing guitar,

and doing what I love about him.

For me, this guy's voice
takes his music

to another level.
It's really good on my ear.

He's got a sensitivity
that matches his guitar playing.

It all comes from his heart.

And it's mostly played
with a smile on his face.

I give you Peter Frampton.

Hi, I'm Peter Frampton.

♪ Almost to meet
your faces and in ♪

♪ Escaping the ghost
of yesterday... ♪

When I was about 16,

my father negotiated
my first contract.

He said, "Well,
if you're not gonna go"

"to music college," he said,

"I'm gonna make sure
you get a steady wage."

So, that was the proviso
that I got,

15 pounds a week.
That was The Herd.

♪ No, I don't want
our lovin' to die... ♪

A journalist called
Penny Valentine

dubbed me the face of '68.
That's really what led to me

leaving and forming
the next band.

All right,
on The Barry Richards Show,

we're here. We have Humble Pie
with us from England.

- And you are?
- Peter. Peter Frampton.

And what do you play, Pete?

- Guitar.
- Guitar.

Brilliant deduction on my part.

♪ I don't need no doctor
I don't need no doctor ♪

♪ Yeah, I know, Hallelujah! ♪

Humble Pie,
I had a great deal of fun in.

It was sort of
a get-down-dirty band, you know,

It was like an apprenticeship,
really, for what was to come,

but I didn't know that
at the time.

♪ Take me away, making my way ♪

So, I went out on my own
and made four solo records

that I was very proud of.

And even though none
were huge sellers,

I could feel my fanbase
getting bigger and bigger.

And everything
just started to click.

So, I decide to record a few
of my shows

in support of the Frampton LP.

And well, the rest is history.

Thank you!

♪ Shadows grow so long
before my eyes ♪

♪ And they're moving
across the page ♪

The minute we put it out,
it just started selling

ridiculous amounts of records.

It was the year of Frampton.
It was 1976.

♪ I can't believe
this is happening ♪

♪ To me ♪

Twelve
and a half million albums.

They tell me that I made
the Guinness Book of Records,

so, meaning that

it's the biggest selling album
of all time.

♪ Show me the way ♪

When the live record
came out,

that was really
the first time people

were seeing what I looked like.
It was everywhere.

I think it was overkill.

You know what was a monster?

Frampton Comes Alive, 1976.
Is there anyone you knew

who didn't have that record?
I don't think so. Bam!

Then there was the talk box.

You're hearing a guitar
manifest itself in a way

that no guitar had ever
manifested itself

before on a hit record.

♪ I want to thank you ♪

He was the guy
on the rocket that was going

where no other rocket had gone.

And there was no manual
for what was to come.

♪ Do you, you feel like I do?
Do you, you feel like I do? ♪

The expectations
of an artist in the public eye,

after having
that kind of success,

are unrealistic.

He went through some shit,
and I feel for him.

Peter Frampton, no?

- Excuse me
- Yes.

No, that's not Peter Frampton.
No, no, no.

I won't allow anybody.

Guitar, Peter Frampton.

One thing you may
or may not know is that

Peter and I, in fact, used to go
to the same school.

His father, Peter's father,
was my art master at school.

♪ Gone, gone
the water's all gone ♪

Bowie reached out and said,

come be shoulder
to shoulder with me.

I think that was a great
brotherly moment

in rock history.

They're talking about me
as a guitar player again,

which is what I am,

and always have been,
and I think that got forgotten.

He's a smoking
guitar player

and should be
mentioned with Clapton,

and Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page.

He should be in that pantheon
of guitar players.

Peter Frampton
certainly belongs

in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,

if only for these three words.
"Frampton Comes Alive."

It was a record
that just absolutely

conquered the world.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Peter Frampton!

♪ Who said it's my year?
Was it you, there? ♪

♪ Can't go wrong ♪

♪ I see a new way you'll be
in my play, sing my song ♪

♪ Yeah, where is the reason
I keep teasing? If I knew ♪

♪ Now to see the new year
not being blue here, evermore ♪

♪ All right
somethin's happening ♪

♪ Hold tight
might be lightning ♪

♪ Turn on the lights
somethin's moving ♪

♪ Can't sleep at night ♪

♪ My heart keeps missing
a beat ♪

♪ Oh baby, don't ever let it
bring you down ♪

♪ Oh baby, I'll pick you up ♪

Thank you!

Thank you very much.

Uh, this is fantastic.
Thank you.

Um, and I want to bring
on a dear, dear friend of mine

for a very long time.

And he's a great singer,
songwriter, guitar player.

Keith Urban,
ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you, Keith.

♪ Woke up this morning
with a wine glass in my hand ♪

♪ Whose wine, what wine? ♪

Where the hell
did I dine?

♪ Must have been a dream ♪

♪ I don't believe
where I've been ♪

♪ Come on, let's do it again ♪

♪ Do you, you feel like I do? ♪

♪ Do you, you feel like I do? ♪

♪ Champagne for breakfast
and a Sherman in my hand ♪

♪ Black top, black tails
you know it never fails ♪

♪ Must have been a dream ♪

♪ I don't believe
where I've been ♪

Come on, Cleveland!

♪ Do you, you feel like I do? ♪

♪ Do you, you feel like I... ♪

♪ Like I do? ♪

♪ Do you feel like we do? ♪

♪ Do you feel like we do? ♪

♪ Can you hear me? ♪

Oh!

Thank you!

Thank you so much.

Hi, Peter. This is Bryan Adams.

I'm on tour right now
and I just want to say

congratulations on getting

in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

And I know I'm not
alone when I say this

because there's a lot
of other people that want

to say, yeah, Peter.

We love you man, we love you.

That's what you call
a rock star!

Peter Frampton!

Can't believe it.

I can't believe it.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

And many, many thanks

to Roger for coming all
the way over from England.

I can't thank you enough,
really.

So...

Well...

He's... he's remind...

Could they make it any bigger?

Anyway, um, so...

Uh, it reminds me of him
talking about me driving around,

um, England with Keith Moon
and John Entwistle,

because it reminds me
of that first UK tour.

I was in The Herd,
and we were supporting The Who,

and... But one night,

backstage, Keith Moon
and John Entwistle decided

to show me the rock ropes.

And take me
under their collective wing.

Every time
in The Herd's dressing room,

I went near the window
and looked out,

all the girls would start
screaming down below.

And so, uh...

the next thing I knew, I was
being dangled out

of the third story window...

By my ankles.

Uh, this was amid
the maniacal laughter

of Keith Moon
and John Entwistle.

And they thought I should be
closer to my fans, obviously.

And I was 17.
Welcome to rock and roll!

I really am a lucky guy to have
had this amazing career.

And it's always been
driven by my passion

for guitar playing.

And that is, as Roger said,
that's my comfy chair.

And along the way,
I've had help from many people,

and starting
with a Rolling Stone,

no less, Bill Wyman.

And, um... and...

He was always and is still

like my older brother,
and he managed

and produced a band
before The Herd called

The Preachers
when I was still at school.

We got to be on British TV's
Ready Steady Go

with The Stones,

and I was only 14 then.

So, I was always a huge fan
of the Small Faces as well,

so when Glyn Johns
asked me to play

on a Small Faces session
for Johnny Hallyday

in Paris, I said,
I'll be right there.

And Steve and I really
hit it off straight away,

and pretty soon after that
we formed Humble Pie.

An incredible period where
I found my guitar style

and learned so much
from Steve Marriott

and the Pie, it was
a wonderful period for me.

And, um...

Oh, yes, we had a big live album
too called Rockin' the Fillmore.

And that went gold, that
was our first gold anything, so.

Is it okay for me to ask, please
can we nominate Humble Pie?

After I left,
without a lot of money,

um, I was able to do
some sessions to keep afloat.

I became a session guy,

and George Harrison
asked me to play

on All Things Must Pass.

And then he told Harry Nilsson

about me and Harry
called me and I played

on Son of Schmilsson too.

The people I met and played
with on these sessions

and recordings are some

of the most
legendary players ever.

I went ar... So I went around
with a notepad and took down all

their phone numbers and when
I made my first solo album,

they all turned up.

So I was lucky to learn from all
of them and found my voice

as a solo artist.

Having what was then
the biggest selling live album

of all time
with Frampton Comes Alive

was needless.

Thank you.

It was a wild ride.

Oh, God.

Um...

It brought with it such joy
and excitement

and also immense stress
and pressure

to follow that big thing up,
you know.

So, anyway, what goes up...
must come down.

Looking back, my fall from grace
was almost predetermined.

I'm not the first
to learn this lesson,

but you never truly know
until it happens to you.

I'm a positive person,
very positive person,

but I landed back at the bottom
of the ladder.

I quickly picked myself up

and started
fighting my way back.

I now believe

that this
was a necessity for me.

There was a gift in all of this.

I had time to realize
what was most important to me.

My family, right there.

My friends,

and my reinventing passion
for guitar always.

The money and the fame
were seemingly gone overnight,

and that'll wake you up.

But life is full of surprises.

David Jones, or we know him
as David Bowie,

and I were school chums.

My father was the head
of the art department

and taught David art
for three or four years.

We were lifelong friends
and David was kind of

a family friend,
my parents as well.

And in '86 he asked me
to play on his album

and then with him

on the Glass Spider tour
the year later.

I was absolutely over the moon
to play guitar with David

on the same stage
at the same time.

It was absolutely amazing.

We never really spoke about it,

but he saw how I had lost
my credibility,

and he had always thought of me
as the guitar player first.

At the time, I had no idea

what a huge gift
David was giving me.

I went back on the road,
and I started the journey

that I've been on ever since.

Thank you, David Bowie.

Winning a Grammy
for my instrumental album

in 2007
was another incredible moment.

But...

my muscle disease, IBM,
has given me

a completely different outlook
on life. When I look out

over the audience each night,
I see very happy,

excited people enjoying
an escape through my music.

But I have no idea
what battles they

or you might be fighting.

I am now fully aware
of what lies

behind a hello
and a handshake...

because we have no idea

what others might be dealing
with in their lives.

Kindness is king.

Thank you to Jerry Moss,
Herb Albert, A&M,

my managers Ken Levitan
and Lisa Jenkins,

also Gary Haber,
and my incredible team

without whom I wouldn't be
standing here today.

And to all
my incredible band members...

and road crews over the years
who've played

such an important part
in this career.

And thank you so much
to the Rock Hall

for this incredible honor.

It's something
beyond all my dreams,

even those pipe dreams.

Did I say that?

And...

And I share it with all of you
who've been with me

on this beautiful journey,
especially you, my fans,

who have brought me
here tonight.

Thank you all so much.

Do you want me
to carry this for you?

- Yes, would you?
- Yeah. I will, of course.

I feel that I got the voice.

I feel like I got the power.

Put some good background
behind it

and let me just show the world
what I got.

♪ Well, they call me Big Mama ♪

♪ Because I weigh 300 pounds ♪

Big Mama Thornton,
Willie Mae Thornton,

probably the most powerful
woman singer

of the blues alive today.

Big Mama Thornton
was rock and roll

before rock and roll.

She had the energy.

She had this rawness.

There was electricity
when she would perform.

♪ Come on back, baby
Come back, honey, don't go ♪

You know,
I was born in Alabama.

I really got the blues in '39
when I lost my mother.

So, I decided I wanted
to sing the blues.

[♪ bold blues music playing,

♪ Let your tears fall, baby
If you really want to cry ♪

I was cutting a record called

Let Your Tears Fall, Baby.

While I was in the studio,

Gerald Lever
and Michael Strotland came in.

Big Mama got up and she
just blew everybody away.

She was just such
a great blues singer.

We looked at each other

and then we laid the song
on Big Mama.

They're saying
"Hey can you sing this?"

So, I'd look back.

And they took one take on it.
And that was it.

She just sang her ass off.

♪ You ain't nothing
but a hound dog ♪

♪ Been snoopin' round my door ♪

♪ You ain't nothing
but a hound dog ♪

♪ Been snoopin' round my door ♪

The man said,
"Here's a record

he's doing nationwide,

Hound Dog
by Willie Mae Thornton."

I said, "That's me."

Hound Dog
just took off like a jet.

♪ You ain't nothing
but a hound dog ♪

♪ Been snoopin' round my door ♪

Big Mama Thornton did a tune
called Hound Dog,

which sold over a million copies

before anyone had heard
of Elvis Presley.

♪ You ain't nothing
but a hound dog ♪

♪ Crying all the time ♪

Did you get rich
from "Hound Dog"?

You know them old jokes?

During those times,

the industry as it was
was doing everything they could

to benefit from Black people,

but not celebrate their work
and pay them fair dues.

This is a song
I wrote, made famous...

[♪ soft blues music playing,

By me and Janis Joplin.

♪ I know you're gonna
miss me, baby ♪

One day,
I was singing Ball and Chain.

She just kept asking me, saying,
"Can I do Ball and Chain?"

And she always wanted
to sing like me.

And I just told her to go ahead
and put her own feeling in it.

♪ Oh, whoa, whoa ♪

♪ Oh honey, this can't be ♪

♪ Oh, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-baby
Babe, babe, babe, no ♪

♪ Oh, whoa, baby ♪

♪ Why do, why do everything
have to just happen to me? ♪

I actually think she inspired
a whole lot of singers,

but nobody could really
hit it like she does.

♪ I said oh, oh, baby ♪

♪ Why do, why do ♪

♪ Why do everything
have to just happen to me? ♪

See, so many
youngsters jumping up now.

They forget
about the old-timers,

and the old-timers
are still going.

Big Mama Thorton!

They came along behind me.

♪ Ball and chain ♪

Thank you!

And now,

to honor Jimmy Buffett,
Dave Matthews.

They put me after Mama,
Big Mama Thornton.

I'm so happy to be here
to honor Jimmy.

He made everybody feel special.
He made me feel very special.

I wish he could be here,
but it's too late.

And so I'm going to play a song.
I'm nervous.

I'm going to play
a song that he wrote

about being too late.

♪ Mother, mother ocean
I have heard you call ♪

♪ I've wanted to sail
upon your waters ♪

♪ Since I was three feet tall
You've seen it all ♪

♪ You've seen it all ♪

♪ I watched the men
who rode you ♪

♪ Switch from sail to steam ♪

♪ Oh, and in your belly ♪

♪ You hold a treasure
that few have ever seen ♪

♪ Most of 'em dream ♪

♪ Most of 'em dream ♪

♪ Yes, I am a pirate ♪

♪ But I'm two hundred years
too late ♪

♪ The cannons don't thunder ♪

♪ There's nothing to plunder ♪

♪ I'm an over-forty victim
of fate ♪

♪ Arriving too late
Arriving too late ♪

♪ I've done a bit of smugglin' ♪

♪ I've run my share of grass ♪

♪ Oh, I made enough money
to buy Miami ♪

♪ I pissed it away so fast ♪

♪ Never meant to last ♪

♪ Never meant to last ♪

♪ I have been drunk now
for over two weeks ♪

♪ I passed out and I rallied
and I sprung a few leaks ♪

♪ I gotta stop wishing
Gotta go fishing ♪

♪ Down to rock bottom again ♪

♪ Just a few friends ♪

♪ Just a few friends ♪

♪ You know I'd go
for younger women ♪

♪ I would live
with several a while ♪

♪ And though I'd run them away ♪

♪ They'd come back someday ♪

♪ Maybe even manage a smile ♪

♪ Just takes a while ♪

♪ Just takes a while ♪

♪ Mother, mother ocean ♪

♪ After all these years
I've found ♪

♪ My occupational hazard ♪

♪ Being my occupation's
just not around ♪

♪ I feel like I've drowned ♪

♪ Gonna head uptown ♪

♪ I feel like I've drowned ♪

♪ Gonna head uptown ♪

Thank you very much,
Jimmy. Thank you, Jane.

I wanna... Thank you very much.

I want to introduce
a friend of mine.

He's a much better skier
than I will ever be.

And he's also
one of the best songwriters

that has ever graced the planet.

Please welcome
the magnificent James Taylor.

Oh, boy, my favorite thing,
public speaking.

Well, Jimmy Buffett's wife,

Jane,
is in the audience tonight,

and she should...

Thank you, James.

She should probably
be talking to you, not me,

but a few weeks ago,

she threw one of her
legendary parties.

It was a goodbye party
for Jimmy.

And I think it helped us
all accept the fact

that he's really gone.

I don't know why
that's so hard to believe.

People all over the world
are grieving his loss.

And I was asked to speak
on that night, too.

And I think I talked
about celebrity

and about how we assemble
our personal mythologies

in the popular culture,
some bullshit like that.

But the point is that
for so many of us,

Jimmy was a sort
of a central hero,

like a heroic figure
in some Greek myth.

You know, his adventure
was our adventure,

and we got to share
his huge love of this life.

He loved,
loved being Jimmy Buffett.

He loved his family.
He loved his band.

He loved the music,
the life on the road.

And he absolutely loved
his audience.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

He made you feel that.
He really did.

And we were summoned,

like, to a tribal celebration,
you know,

the Parrot Head Nation, yeah.

We were right there with him

all the while
piloting his seaplane

or... or surfing the wake
of a super tanker.

He actually did that.

He was larger than life,
but somehow at the same time,

always right-sized
and always authentic. Yeah.

He was... Yeah.

Jimmy was the self-made man

and a poet...

and there won't be
another like him.

Uh, I just... I just wish
I could see him enjoy

this moment tonight.
I just wish I could see it.

So...

Hats off, bottoms up,
ladies and gentlemen.

It is my honor
and great pleasure

to announce the induction
of Jimmy Buffett

to the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame.

I was in my first year
of college,

and I saw this guy
playing the guitar,

and all the girls
were gathering around,

so I said,
"Teach me those three chords."

♪ Nautical Wheelers
who call... ♪

I started as bar singer,
and I started in folk clubs,

and I learned how to communicate
with an audience.

♪ And let's dance with me
Dance with me ♪

♪ Nautical Wheelers
I want so badly... ♪

I was living
in Key West,

and I was working
in a little cocktail lounge,

doing Happy Hour.
And then just about the time

I was settling
into my casual lifestyle,

I did this album,
and it took off.

♪ So come Monday
it'll be all right ♪

♪ Come Monday
I'll be holding you tight ♪

♪ I spent four lonely days... ♪

If you spent
any time with Jimmy,

you felt like you had been
on a journey,

and it was colorful
and full of life and living.

And he just translated
that into his music.

♪ As the son of a son
of a sailor ♪

♪ I went out on the sea
for adventure ♪

♪ Expanding the view
of the captain and crew ♪

♪ Like a man just released
from indenture ♪

I feel like in songs lies
the only real portrayal

of American poetry.
And throughout decades,

Jimmy found ways to say things
in a different way.

♪ Changes in latitudes
Changes in attitudes ♪

♪ Nothing remains
quite the same ♪

♪ Through all of our running
and all of our cunning ♪

♪ We could laugh
We would all go in ♪

Jimmy Buffett
was like nobody else.

He found a niche in music
that was just his.

You couldn't call him rock,
you couldn't call him country,

you call him Buffett music.

♪ But now I think
about the good times ♪

♪ Down in
the Caribbean sunshine ♪

♪ In my younger days
I was so bad ♪

♪ Laughin' about
all the fun we had ♪

The band
that he has had

for so many years
are guys I knew

when I was a school teacher
in St. Louis.

The fact that those guys stayed
with him for all of these years

is a testament to Jimmy.

I just wanna know one thing,
are all you Parrot Heads ready to party?

As far as I see them,
they're pretty normal people,

but they have a slight streak
of insanity in their make-up,

which comes out
when they come to the show.

♪ I don't know
where I'm a-gonna ♪

♪ When the volcano blows ♪

I'm not sure that Jimmy gets
the credit he deserves

as being a poet,

like a true songwriter,
storyteller,

a lot like Hemingway
was in his time.

♪ Mother, mother, ocean ♪

♪ I have heard you call ♪

♪ Wanted to sail
upon your waters ♪

♪ Since I was... ♪

He was truly
an incredible human being.

He was always trying to leave
everything a better place,

and he was always trying to figure out
how to create experiences

for people that helped them
to feel good.

There's a real sense
of community in our fans.

It's almost tribal in nature

that people really want
to go out and have a good time.

♪ Can't you feel them circle... ♪

A lot of people outgrow
the artists

they start out loving,
but people didn't outgrow Jimmy.

♪ You got fins to the left
Fins to the right ♪

♪ And you're the only bait
in town ♪

♪ Oh-whoa, oh-whoa ♪

♪ Somethin' tall and strong
Make it a... ♪

Contrary
to popular belief,

I'm not on the beach every day
with a margarita.

I'm on the road
a hundred days a year.

♪ But I don't care ♪

♪ It's five o'clock somewhere ♪

Margaritaville is one
of those examples

of the genius that Jimmy had.

Everyone can relate
to that song.

I think the spirit
that it carries

makes you feel a certain way.
It's a perfect song.

♪ Wastin' away again
in Margaritaville ♪

♪ Searching for
my lost shakers of salt ♪

♪ Salt, salt, salt ♪

♪ Some people claim
that there's a woman... ♪

When we come to town
and all of a sudden

we're an excuse to go crazy,

I think that's an essential part
of life in the 20th century,

and I'm glad it's my job.

♪ It's my fault... ♪

♪ Yeah! ♪

Thank you!

Thank you. I'm...

Again, I'm James Taylor,
or I'm one of them.

And this is...
this is Kenny Chesney.

This is Matt McAnally.

And we're...

we're three old friends
of Jimmy Buffett,

and we miss him.

This is a song of his
that we like a lot.

♪ Headin' out to San Francisco
for the Labor Day weekend show ♪

♪ I've got my Hush Puppies on ♪

♪ I guess I never was meant
for glitter rock and roll ♪

♪ Honey, I didn't know ♪

♪ That I be missin' you so ♪

♪ Come Monday
It'll be all right ♪

♪ Come Monday
I'll be holdin' your tight ♪

♪ I spent four lonely days
in a brown L.A. haze ♪

♪ Just want you back
by my side ♪

♪ Yeah, it's been quite
a summer ♪

♪ Rental cars
and the westbound train ♪

♪ And now you're off on vacation
Something you tried to explain ♪

♪ And, darlin'
since I love you so ♪

♪ That's the reason
I just let you go ♪

♪ Come Monday
It'll be all right ♪

♪ Come Monday
I'll be holding you tight ♪

♪ I spent four lonely days
in a brown L.A. haze ♪

♪ And I just want you
right by my side ♪

♪ I can't help it, honey ♪

♪ You're that much part
of me now ♪

♪ Remember that night
in Montana ♪

♪ We said
there'd be no room for doubt ♪

♪ I hope you're enjoying
the scenery ♪

♪ I know
that it's pretty up there ♪

♪ We can go hiking on Tuesday ♪

♪ With you I'd walk anywhere ♪

♪ California has worn me
quite thin ♪

♪ I just can't wait
to see you again ♪

♪ Come Monday
It'll be all right ♪

♪ Come Monday
I'll be holding you tight ♪

♪ I spent four lonely days
in a brown L.A. haze ♪

♪ And I just want you back
by my side ♪

♪ I spent four lonely days
in a brown L.A. haze ♪

♪ And I just want you back
by my side ♪

It was in 1967.

I was trying to book
Motown acts for theaters.

I met Berry Gordy
through a friend of mine

and I said, Mr. Gordy,
there is something

desperately wrong
with your company.

Here I'm trying to book these artists
and all this opinion.

Two weeks later, they flew me out
for an interview. I got the job.

Suzanne said there was
a kids group you got to see.

They're auditioning
in the next room.

I was only six minutes
into the business.

Last thing I want
is a kids group.

But I knew I had seen
something great.

And then she said,
you still don't like kids group?

And I said, "No, I don't."
Get my camera. Get my camera.

Her interaction
with the Jackson 5

was more than an executive.
She was every day.

She had a lot of hats.

♪ When I had you to myself
I didn't want you around ♪

I was given
the task of everything

from their choreography,
their clothes, their schools,

their house,
all of their activities.

♪ Picked you from the bunch ♪

Suzanne de Passe

was very instrumental
in the early days of our career.

She was so wonderful.

I want you
to be relaxed up there,

and if you feel something,
try it.

It took a lot to handle
a bunch of teenage boys

who were the most popular group
in the world.

But she pulled it off.

Suzanne can walk in the door
and say, "That's a hit."

♪ Ow, she's a brick... house ♪

I have always responded
to talent

in a purely emotional way.

How I knew was
when the little hairs

on the back of my neck
would stand up.

♪ Shake it down
Shake it down now... ♪

Who is she dealing
with on a daily basis?

Diana, Marvin Gaye,
Smokey Robinson,

and all about Motown.

She was just
in the fiber of careers.

Let's talk about
the movies,

Lady Sings the Blues.
That was Suzanne.

I was completely blown away
when Berry Gordy called me

to say that Lady Sings the Blues

had been nominated
for five Academy Awards.

Berry Gordy wanted
to make movies,

and he wanted to do TV specials.
Suzanne was a person

he could count on
to help him do it.

It occurred to me
the 25th anniversary

of Motown was coming up,

and celebrating that
in a television show

would be a really good idea.

- Well, I gave her hell.
- I mean, you didn't say no.

- I did say no.
- But you never said no.

You said, "Boy,
I want a show for it."

I went back to Mr. Gordy.
It was sold.

NBC was gonna broadcast it.
It was happening.

And suddenly, everybody wanted
to be part of it.

♪ Baby
Everything is all right... ♪

The music,
the artists,

and the reunions we had.

♪ Mama told me ♪

Very rarely
does a show get to have

all those fabulous elements.

And then
when Michael did "Billie Jean,"

it took it
to a whole other place.

♪ She says I am the one
But the kid is not my son ♪

Each level you get to,
you have to recognize

that you've achieved it
and be really grateful.

She has shaped careers,
saved careers, advised careers.

She made the famous.
She made all of us.

- ♪ Give it to me, baby ♪
- ♪ Give it to me, baby ♪

These opportunities
allowed me the chance to make

the mistakes that taught me
much more than any success.

- ♪ That sweet, funky stuff ♪
- ♪ Yo... Ho! Ow! ♪

Good evening.

I'm Berry Gordy, and I wish
I could be there in person

to honor my longtime friend,
the great Suzanne de Passe.

Suzanne was important
in helping me achieve

my vision for Motown.

She began
as my creative assistant

and always exceeded
my expectations.

From pushing me
to listen to a kids' group...

...The Jackson 5,
to signing the Commodores.

While running
Motown Productions,

she stepped into
the predominantly men's world

of music, movies,
and television.

Her instincts made her
a formidable player,

and her success carved out
a much-needed path

for the many women
who have followed her

as executives
in the entertainment industry.

Suzanne, you are a true pioneer.

I am extremely proud
of everything

you've accomplished and so happy
to welcome you, my friend,

into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame.

Oh, my God.

Whoa!

Oh.

Oh, you guys, thank you so much.

This is why I work
behind the scenes.

I can't believe that I am here.

Um...

I can never thank
Berry Gordy enough,

for he saw something in me
that I didn't see in myself

and gave me an opportunity
to find it.

And in so doing,

I have had the most
wonderful career in life.

I am so blessed.
I am so grateful.

I know that Berry
was so far ahead of his time

in giving women opportunities
to excel.

I was far
from the only woman at Motown

who had responsibilities
where he expected a lot

and we gave a lot

because we didn't want
to disappoint him.

And very often
he was disappointed.

But he kept giving us chances,
and myself in particular,

I have had just
the opportunity to fail,

which is so important
because I do believe

you learn more sometimes
the hard lessons

of things not going your way
than when they go perfectly.

I am profoundly grateful to
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

This is a life-changing moment
for me.

When, uh, John Platt...
...called me and said,

I'm gonna put Rob Light
on the phone...

I thought maybe
someone was dead.

They don't call me.
So...

They explained
that I was gonna be inducted

on this day
with the Ahmet Ertegun Award,

and I burst
into projectile, nasty tears.

It is impossible to find
the words to explain

how it was so unexpected
and so...

um, moving to be recognized now

for all those things
that I have been part of

and have had such
a wonderful time doing.

And I am so honored
to join the previous recipients

of the Ahmet Ertegun Award,

especially the four women
who have preceded me.

No one, no one reaches
any level of success alone

or by themselves.

And I want to thank...

some very important people
in my life.

My cousin, Tony Jones,
who's had my back

from the beginning to this day.
And he was with me

during all of
the Jackson 5 moments.

I want to thank Suzanne Koston
for her hard work,

dedication, and loyalty.

And my profound thanks
to the artists, the writers,

producers, engineers, at Motown,
the Motown family executives,

there was a lesson every day.

And I am the recipient
and just soaked it in

in every way possible.

And I thank everyone
that I had the privilege

of working with
at Motown and beyond.

I used to be the youngest person
in the room,

and now I'm the oldest person
in the room.

I was there the whole time...

and I don't know what happened
except the years went by

and I had a great time. And...

I, um... People say to me,
"Are you still working?"

And I go,
"Yeah, I love what I do."

I take my inspiration
from the past,

but I'm excited
about the future.

And finally, I would like
to thank my wonderful mother,

who believed in me so strong...

when I...

didn't have one credit,
not one success,

not one anything.

And she made me believe
that I could do anything.

So, I dedicate this
to my fabulous mother, Babs.

I am so blessed
with great friends,

family, and a wonderful life.

And the great Bill Withers wrote
a song called

Use Me.
And that's what I intend to do.

Thank you.

Thank you.

To induct
A Tribe Called Quest

into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame, Dave Chappelle.

Thank you.

Yo, let them know
where we at, RH.

It...

Is an honor to...

Induct this next band into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

A Tribe Called Quest consists
of four members,

Ali Shaheed Muhammad...

Phife Dawg,
Q-Tip, and Jarobi.

Years ago, in a tough time
in my life,

I read a Chinese proverb
that changed my life.

And the proverb said

that the best meal you can cook
is made with ingredients

that you already have.

And this proverb reminds me
of hip-hop,

and this proverb reminds me
in particular of Tribe,

because Tribe was born
out of friendship.

Being in the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame is not something

that a black kid
in New York in 1985

would ever even imagine
to dream of.

And I don't believe
that was ever the point

of A Tribe Called Quest.
Uh, they met on a train.

They met at school.
They played basketball together.

They play around... around
with each other.

They just use what they had.

And the first thing they had
was each other as friends.

The next thing they had
was their parents' records.

Hip-hop took what came before it

and made it
strikingly innovative and new.

And Tribe Called Quest
incorporated jazz and soul

in a way that hip-hop
had never seen before them.

They took this talent
from the playground

into the studio, and in 1990,

dropped their first studio album
with the wildest title,

People's Instinctive Travels
and the Paths of Rhythm.

What kind of teenager
would write some shit

like this as a title?

And this is when they first came
in the game.

The marquee record
on that album,

we all know it, Can I Kick It?

And just like that,
hip-hop had a new superstar.

They only sold like,
17,000 records.

And in the beginning,
like any movement,

it started small,
but grew throughout the streets.

Changed the culture.
People started dressing better.

People started being kinder.

Because hip-hop
was about being thuggish

and all this shit,
but when Tribe came out,

it was a cue for everybody
that you could be cool

and not necessarily gangster.

On September 24th, 1991,
music was never the same.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers
dropped an album,

Nirvana dropped Nevermind,

and Tribe Called Quest dropped
their second studio album,

The Low End Theory,
and it was a wrap.

This album's title

had one of the
illest double entendres ever,

The Low End, which refers
to the bass and the drums.

And it also refers to
a black man's status in America.

And on that album
was the big bang

of a superstar career
that we all know

as Busta Rhymes
and the Scenario.

Tribe has always been
about togetherness.

On their way up
during their ascension,

they helped form or found

what hip-hop calls
the native tongues,

which included De La Soul,
and The Jungle Brothers,

and Queen Latifah,
and Monie Love and Black Sheep.

And all these bands
in their own way changed

our music and our culture
really forever.

I know this is
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,

but this movement
in hip-hop was the birth

of so many great artists

and it started with these men
sitting at this table.

When Phyfe passed away...

Yes, make some noise
for Phyfe, though.

I remember
it happened suddenly.

I had tickets
to a Prince concert,

and Phyfe passed,
and the same night

for those tickets
was Phyfe's funeral.

Wasn't even a question.

I said,
"I'll see Prince another time."

And we went to the Apollo
to say goodbye

to one of hip-hop's heroes,

and that was
a very difficult time.

Afterwards, the next day,

everyone met at Q-Tip's house,
and me, an outsider,

got to see
the native tongues be together

and mourn their friend.

Latifah was there,
and everybody was there.

Dayla was there.

And we laughed that night.

We played old videos of movies
we'd all been in,

old records we all made
and teased each other.

And then, at the end
of the night,

Q-Tip played
the last studio record

that Phife was on.

The album, ironically,
was called

Thank You 4 Your Service...
We Got It From Here.

Tribe...

I want to thank you
for your service.

What you've done
for our culture means

the world to me.

But what you did for me
that night changed my life.

Because that night,
you shared your platform with me

and invited me to be
on Saturday Night Live with you,

and it brought me back
to television

after 12 years in the cold.

And I will always,
always be grateful to you.

Ladies and gentlemen...

Make some noise
for A Tribe Called Quest.

When people study hip-hop...

A Tribe Called Quest
will be as important

as Coltrane,
as important as James Brown,

as important as Funkadelic.

You just have
these important figures

in music genres and Tribe...

they are those motherfuckers.

♪ Check the Rhime ♪

It was a brotherhood.

There was friendship, kinship.

They look like friends.

Stylish, clever, cool,
creative, free.

There was a liberation
to the sound.

♪ Back in the days
on the boulevard of Linden ♪

♪ We used to kick routines
and presence was fittin' ♪

- ♪ It was I, The Abstract ♪
- ♪ And me the five-footer ♪

♪ I kicks the mad style
So, step off the frankfurter ♪

With Tribe, it's like they were
as artistically ambitious

as anybody could be.

We're from the same area
as Run-D.M.C., LL Cool J.

So, those guys were our idols.

It was like, "Yo",

we could do this on our own.
What's up?"

Before you knew it, it was on.

- ♪ You on point Phife? ♪
- ♪ Once again Tip ♪

- ♪ Word, okay ♪
- ♪ Watch me bust they shit ♪

Tip is very smooth.
Phife was very hype.

The yin and yang
of those two, that, to me,

was the perfect marriage.

We knew that we were
doing something different.

You know, we knew it was good,

but I don't think
we understood the magnitude

of the moment
because we were kids.

♪ A lot of kids was
bustin' rhymes ♪

♪ But they had no taste ♪

♪ Some said Quest was wack
but now is that the case? ♪

♪ Your entry, MCVA ♪

♪ We got the jazz
We got the jazz ♪

♪ We got the jazz
We got the jazz ♪

Tip was a visionary.

He had, like, big ideas.

He dreamed it,
and then I figured out a way

to make it happen.

♪ Stern, firm and young
with a laid-back tongue ♪

♪ The aim is to succeed
and achieve at 21 ♪

They introduced me
to jazz.

A Tribe Called Quest
was definitely the fathers

of a whole new brand of hip-hop.

It was a very
jazz-inspired sound.

We saw the boundaries of...

of hip-hop expanding
before our eyes.

It was exhilarating
for all of us.

A Tribe Called Quest
made being different

safer in hip-hop.

We're allowed to be different.

It was always
in this perfect kind of space.

The melodies and the chords
were a certain way,

but the beats were hard.

♪ Here we go, yo
Here we go, yo ♪

♪ So what, so what
So, what's the scenario? ♪

♪ Ayo, Bo knows this
And Bo knows that ♪

♪ But Bo don't know jack
'Cause Bo can't rap... ♪

Scenario wasn't even planned.

It was just, yo,
come by the studio.

Next thing you know,
Busta went in there.

It was like, damn, B.

♪ Watch, as I combine
all the juice from the mind ♪

♪ Heel up, wheel up,
bring it back... ♪

We went and did Arsenio Hall,

which was our first
major appearance at that time.

♪ "Raow, raow,"
like a dungeon dragon ♪

♪ Change your little drawers
'cause your pants are sagging ♪

There was nothing
fucking with Tribe.

They are probably
the best exemplification

of timeless greatness
in its most impeccable form.

♪ Lyrics to go
Lyrics to go ♪

It was very artful
in how they used samples.

♪ Lyrics to go ♪

The way Q-Tip used
the Minnie Riperton sample.

The whole time,
I'm thinking it's a keyboard,

but it's actually her
note-sustaining the whole time.

Like, whoa.

All we did was take
all of those different things

that we were influenced by
and mix it all together.

Oh, shit.

♪ Can I, can I kick it? ♪

- ♪ Yes, you can ♪
- ♪ Well, I'm gone ♪

♪ Can I kick it? ♪

Can I Kick It is a fucking
exciting three minutes.

There's no DJ on this planet
that has not put that record on

and pulled the fader down
for the "yes, you can."

♪ Yes, you can! ♪

- ♪ Yeah, kick it, come on! ♪
- ♪ Yes, you can! ♪

♪ 'Cause I left my wallet
In El Segundo ♪

It was just a moment
where everything

was just so creative

and everybody was just
so expressive.

♪ Bonita Applebum... ♪

I listened
to Bonita Applebum all the time.

I was obsessed with it.

It was the most heavenly sound
I'd ever heard.

I had never heard
nothing like that

in my whole life.

♪ Bonita Applebum
You gotta put me on ♪

♪ Bonita Applebum
I said, "You gotta put me on" ♪

What? What? What?

There wouldn't have been OutKast
as you know it

if there wasn't
A Tribe Called Quest.

They were our Gods.

♪ The fog and the smog
of news media that logs ♪

♪ False narratives of Gods
That came up against the odds ♪

Tribe's music is legacy music.

A foundational,
hugely impactful,

hugely important part
of the lineage,

of hip-hop music.

♪ The abstract poet incognito
See I run the cape ♪

♪ Not the best, not the worst
But occasionally... ♪

It was important to,
like, just make the shit right

and just really touch
people's hearts.

The way it turned out...

♪ Listen to the mission
Listen, Miss... ♪

Turned out good, man.

- ♪ As I crack up that monotone ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Children of the jazz
so get your own ♪

Ladies and gentlemen...

make some noise
for Q-Tip, Jarobi White,

Ali Shaheed Muhammad,
Phife Dawg.

A Tribe Called Quest,

welcome to the
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Let's go.

Microphone...
microphone check, one,

two, what is this?

Um, I think Dave hit it
on the head.

We didn't even think
that this was something

to aspire to.

Um, my boy, Phife Dawg.
Give it up for Phife Dawg.

I don't...
I don't have any stories.

All I have is gratitude,
you know what I'm saying?

Um, thank you to New York.

Queens in the building.

Sayers Ave in the building.

What's up, Cleveland?
How y'all doing?

Thank you,
the Tribe fans everywhere.

Um, we wouldn't be nothing
without you.

Um, Ali Shah...
Ali Shaheed, I love you, boy.

Wish you was here.

Um...

let me give it up right quick.

Give it up for Phife's mom
and dad right here, y'all.

- Captain. What's up, Captain?
- What's up?

Um...

I love your dirty drawers, boy.
I love you to death, man.

- Pause.
- P-p-pause.

I love you to death, man.

And, um...

uh, thank you for the tutelage...

uh, support,
uh, the gift of this life.

Mhm.

Uh, I wouldn't be the same
without all of my brothers.

You know what I mean?
Um, I'm really glad and proud

to call you guys
my big brothers.

Um, mom and dad.

Uh, my dad,
uh, thank you for the structure.

Uh, Mama Joan, thank you
for teaching me the streets.

Uh, my mother, Joyce, thank you
for introducing me to music.

Uh, my grandparents, uh...
uh, South Carolina, Charleston.

Uh, you know what I'm saying?
Um...

And, uh, that's it.
Oh, my son, AJ.

Yo, my son is in the building.
Get my son up.

That's that piece, y'all.

Uh...

This is crazy.

It's just an honor to be here
with the fellow inductees.

Um...

Ms. Dionne, you're a staple
in my household.

Mr. Frampton...

you as well. Thank you so much.

My sister used to make me
sing your songs

and stuff and torture me.

Um...

You know, um, to m... To the MC5
of course, Mary J. Blige,

my sister, my kindred sister.

Um, but, um...

But I want to definitely
thank our families

who are our rocks.

So, uh, to the Davis family,
the Townsend family,

to the White family,
to the Collier family,

to the Jones family,
the Muhammad family,

and to the Boyce family,
and to the Taylor family.

And rest in peace
to our brother, Phife Dawg.

I wish you were here.

And, uh...

thank you to Dr. Emma Boyce,
Grandma,

as we affectionately called her.

And, you know,

for allowing us
to come into the house in...

you know, hit the basement.

And, um, one other name
I'll mention is definitely

Red Alert, who is a famed
New York City DJ,

whom gave us the shot.

But, um,
we thank the omnipotent,

the light of the worlds.

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. God.

Yahweh. Jah-Jah.

Christ.

We give love...

and reverence to that entity,
the supreme creator...

to which we as artists...

humanely emulate.

We conjure melodies, harmonies...

poetry,

and safe havens of garages,
wood sheds, basements,

bedrooms, and street corners.

To the latter,
it has been the terrain

for many of us doo-woppers
and hip-hoppers.

And yes,
to all of you pseudo historians

who might be confused,

the corner doo-wopper
and the corner hip-hoppers sang

and rapped the blues.

And what's more Rock & Roll
than the blues?

But, uh,
just like our predecessors,

we had to find spaces

on the outskirts of cities
and towns.

Um, a Southern Sun House
or Robert Johnson Crossroad

to a transformed room
in a hood tenement

on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx.

The need to express
burned in us...

with an art-fueled
determination.

A spark, the spark that embers
within many of us in this room.

And the spark that burned
within the four of us boys

in 1985 in New York City.

And here's a quick story.

My oldest sister,
Gwen, who's here,

uh, used to date this dude
named Skeff Anselm.

And he was the engineer
for this guy named Jazzy Jay...

...who was a great DJ, producer,

and was a part
of an organization

in New York City
called the Zulu Nation.

And my sister used
to date his homeboy,

so you know I was gonna be
on her nerves, you know?

So, um...

I begged my sister
to have Skeff and Jazzy

come to see my five-man crew
at a rehearsal space

in New York City
called Giant Studios,

and it was on 14th Street
and Sixth Avenue.

And, uh, ironically,
we were all about 14.

After Jazzy and Skeff heard us
do like two... two records,

he stopped us,
and he was like...

I'm sorry for this...
...Ms. Dionne,

I... I may say something, but...

Jazzy was like, uh,
"Y'all little... is good..."

"but your voice,"

"little... that... that shit
needs to change."

"It needs to mature."

But my voice hasn't matured
since I've been...

But, um...

But that didn't det...
But that didn't deter us

because we had that spark
I spoke about.

And that spark is something
I think that, um,

we all have in us

and that we should all,
in this world,

try to do everything we can

to secure our own
personal spark.

Um, that's what Tribe was about.

No matter where you stood...

socially...

how you looked, how you sounded,

whether you were
first generation here

or you're from somewhere else.

We were just a mixed bag
who wanted to be, um,

Grandmaster Flash
as much as we wanted to be

Kool & The Gang
and Bob Marley,

uh, Earth, Wind & Fire.

As much as we wanted
to be Public Enemy,

and Run-D.M.C., and LL Cool J,
we wanted to be the Beatles.

Um, that was just
how we were tempered.

But, um, I wanna wrap it up

and just say
thank you so much to...

...our families.

One thing, gotta thank my momma.

And we definitely have
to thank... this is, uh, Kansa,

my boy Ali Shaheed,

who couldn't be here,
unfortunately.

Um, I also made a lot of noise
in her house, me and Ali

in... in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.

So, we want to shout out,
you can say it.

- My mom...
- What's her name?

...who's in the back...

...Pamela Jones,

thank you so much for raising us
the way you did.

- Yeah.
- You have made

a lot of things possible
in an impossible world...

- Yeah.
- ...and I just wanna thank you

on behalf of my beloved brother.

- We love you.
- Yeah.

- We love you, too.
- Well, I love you, too.

- All right.
- And we love y'all,

and especially the fans.

Without y'all,
we wouldn't be here.

Thank you so much.
Thank you to, like,

all the artists that came
from us and all that,

we thank y'all so much.
We love y'all. Thank you.

Thank you
for those brief comments.

- What d'you say?
- I said, "Thank you"

"for those brief comments."

I got something to say.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Would you like to say something?

- Yeah.
- One moment.

Phife's father would like
to say something everybody,

Listen...

They tried to get me
off the stage.

I came all the way
from Connecticut, New York.

Not to look cute.

I... I wanna say something...

...before I get out of here.

Um...

My name is Walt Taylor,
father of Phife Dawg.

And Phife is all about family.

And the only reason I'm here,
because of him.

And all my loved ones,

his loved ones are sitting
right over there.

And Phife is all about family.

That's why they're here,
to support A Tribe Called Quest

and to support Phife Dawg.

But it's... One more thing,
I'm gonna make it very short.

Um, Cher, I got you, babe.

Love you guys, peace.

Make some noise
for A Tribe Called Quest,

first of all.

And now it's my privilege
to introduce

a group of artists
that will continue

to carry on Tribe's legacy.

In fact, some of these artists
built this legacy with them.

Please welcome The Roots...

...Busta Rhymes, Common,
Black Thought, De La Soul,

and Queen Latifah.

Yes.

My name is DJ Maseo
from De La Soul,

and I'm here
with the legendary Roots crew,

and we're here
to honor our brothers,

A Tribe Called Quest.

So, if you're a fan
of A Tribe Called Quest,

I need everybody to get up
off their seats,

put their hands in the air,

and raise the roof
off this building

with that beat drop. Let's go.

♪ Put your hands up
Put your hands up ♪

♪ Put your hands up
Come on, come on! ♪

♪ Put your hands up
Put your hands up ♪

♪ Put your hands up
Come on, come on! ♪

- ♪ Can I kick it? ♪
- ♪ Yes, you can! ♪

- ♪ Can I kick it? ♪
- ♪ Yes, you can! ♪

- ♪ Can I kick it? ♪
- ♪ Yes, you can! ♪

- ♪ Can I kick it? ♪
- ♪ Yes, you can! ♪

- ♪ Can I kick it? ♪
- ♪ Yes, you can! ♪

- ♪ Can I kick it? ♪
- ♪ Yes, you can! ♪

- ♪ Can I kick it? ♪
- ♪ Yes, you can! ♪

♪ Well, I'm gone ♪

♪ Can I kick it
to all the people ♪

♪ Who can Quest
like A Tribe does? ♪

♪ For this, did you really know
what live was? ♪

♪ Comprehend to the track
for it's why, cuz ♪

♪ Gettin' measures
on the tip of the vibe buzz ♪

♪ Rock and roll
to the beat of... ♪

♪ Wipe your feet really good
on the rhythm rug ♪

♪ If you feeling through
the urge ♪

- ♪ Do the jitterbug ♪
- ♪ Do the jitterbug ♪

♪ Yo, you really need a hug
Come on ♪

♪ It's a big shrug ♪

- ♪ A life filled with... ♪
- ♪ Fun! ♪

♪ That's what I love ♪

♪ A lower plateau
is what we're above ♪

♪ If you diss us
we won't even think of ♪

♪ Will Nipper the doggy
give a big shove? ♪

♪ This rhythm really hits
Like a... ♪

♪ Snug glove ♪

♪ It's a, come on
like a vibe, love ♪

♪ Turn it up ♪

♪ If the plus flies high
like a dove ♪

- ♪ Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh ♪
- ♪ Come on, come on ♪

- ♪ Here we go ♪
- ♪ Check the rhyme ♪

♪ Yo, check the rhyme ♪

Y'all want to party?
What up, Jayhawks?

♪ 808, come on
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom ♪

- ♪ It goes boom, boom, boom ♪
- ♪ Now take it back ♪

♪ Hey, yo, hey, yo ♪

♪ Back in the days
On the boulevard of Linden ♪

♪ Yeah
we used to kick routines ♪

♪ And presence was fittin'
It was I, The Abstract ♪

♪ And me, the Five Footer
I kicks the mad style ♪

- ♪ So step off the frankfurter ♪
- ♪ Yo, Phife ♪

♪ You remember that routine ♪

♪ That we used to make spiffy
Like Mr. Clean? ♪

♪ Um, um, a tidbit
Um, a smidgen ♪

♪ I don't get it, y'all
Man, you gotta get the page ♪

♪ Hey, yo,
you on point, Phife? ♪

♪ All the time, Tip ♪

♪ You on point, Phife? ♪

♪ All the time, Tip ♪

♪ You on point, Phife? ♪

♪ All the time, Tip ♪

♪ Okay, then grab the microphone
and let your words rip ♪

♪ Now, here's
a funky introduction ♪

- ♪ Of how nice I am ♪
- ♪ Of how nice I am ♪

♪ Send a telegram ♪

♪ I'm like an energizer
'Cause, you see, I last long ♪

♪ My crew is never ever... ♪

♪ Because we stand strong ♪

♪ Now, if you say
my style is wack ♪

♪ That's where
you're dead wrong ♪

♪ I slayed that buddy
in El Segundo ♪

♪ Then push it along ♪

♪ You'd be a fool to reply
that Phife is not the man ♪

♪ 'Cause you know, and I know
that you know who I am ♪

♪ A special shot of peace
goes out ♪

♪ To all my pals you see ♪

♪ And a middle finger goes
for all you punk MC's ♪

♪ Yo, I love when all you
wack MC's despise me ♪

♪ They get vexed, I roll next
no one contest me ♪

♪ I'm just a fly MC who's
five-foot-three and very brave ♪

♪ On top remaining
no home training ♪

♪ 'Cause I misbehave ♪

♪ I come correct in full effect
I got my girls in check ♪

- ♪ And before I do a show ♪
- ♪ Be direct, king ♪

♪ You see, my aura's positive ♪

- ♪ I don't promote no junk ♪
- Come on!

♪ Hey, yo, I'm far from a bully
but I ain't a punk ♪

- ♪ Extremity in rhythm ♪
- ♪ Yeah, that's what you heard ♪

♪ So, just clean out your ears ♪

- ♪ And just check the word ♪
- Let's go!

♪ Bonita Applebum
You gotta put me on ♪

♪ Bonita Applebum
I said, "You gotta put me on" ♪

- Said what?
- ♪ Bonita Applebum ♪

♪ You gotta put me on ♪

♪ Bonita Applebum
I said, "You gotta put me on" ♪

- Come on.
- ♪ Bonita Applebum ♪

- ♪ Hey, hon ♪
- ♪ Hey, hon ♪

- Come on!
- ♪ Bonita Applebum ♪

♪ Go ahead with yourself ♪

♪ Bonita Applebum ♪

- ♪ Hey, hon ♪
- ♪ Hey, hon ♪

- ♪ Bonita, Bonita, Bonita ♪
- ♪ Bonita, Bonita, Bonita ♪

- ♪ Ah, baby doll ♪
- ♪ Baby doll ♪

- ♪ Baby doll ♪
- ♪ Baby doll ♪

- Uh-huh.
- ♪ Hey, Bonita ♪

- ♪ Glad to meet ya ♪
- ♪ Oh, baby doll ♪

- ♪ Baby doll ♪
- ♪ Baby doll ♪

- ♪ Oh, baby doll ♪
- ♪ For the cunning ♪

♪ Stunning you, miss
I must beseech ya ♪

- ♪ Baby doll ♪
- ♪ Baby doll ♪

- ♪ Baby doll ♪
- ♪ Baby doll ♪

♪ Hey, being with you
is a top priority ♪

- ♪ Baby doll ♪
- ♪ Baby doll ♪

- ♪ Oh, baby doll ♪
- ♪ Oh, baby doll, ha! ♪

♪ Ain't no need
to question the authority ♪

- ♪ Baby doll ♪
- ♪ Baby doll ♪

- ♪ Baby doll ♪
- ♪ Oh, baby doll ♪

♪ Chairman of the board
the chief of affections ♪

- ♪ Oh, baby doll ♪
- ♪ Baby doll ♪

♪ Baby doll ♪

♪ You got mine's
to swing in your direction ♪

- ♪ Baby doll ♪
- ♪ Baby doll ♪

- ♪ Baby doll ♪
- ♪ Oh, baby doll, yeah ♪

♪ Hey you're like a hip hop song
you know? ♪

♪ Yeah, baby doll
What's your name? ♪

♪ Bonita Applebum,
you gotta put me on ♪

- Come on!
- ♪ Bonita Applebum ♪

♪ You gotta put me on ♪

♪ Bonita Applebum
I said, "You gotta put me on" ♪

- ♪ Bonita Applebum ♪
- Come on!

♪ You gotta put me on ♪

♪ Bonita Applebum
I said, "You gotta put me on" ♪

- Come on!
- ♪ Bonita Applebum ♪

♪ Hey, hon, hey, hon ♪

♪ Bonita Applebum ♪

♪ Go ahead with yourself ♪

- Come on, now!
- ♪ Bonita Applebum ♪

- ♪ Hey, hon, hey, hon ♪
- ♪ Hey, hon, hey, hon ♪

♪ Bonita Applebum
You gotta put me on ♪

- Check it out!
- Let's go.

- ♪ Hey what we gon do in '92 ♪
- ♪ Do! ♪

♪ Even though we had fun
in '91 ♪

♪ Wonderful my days
herb dream comin' down ♪

♪ Ponna-ponna! New sound
leavin' cracks in the ground ♪

- Come on!
- ♪ What's goin' on, my man? ♪

♪ Goddamn
And now my brain is hurtin' ♪

♪ Listen up, Busta ♪

♪ Rhythm will hit 'em
then I get 'em ♪

♪ Rip on 'em, shit on 'em
hit on 'em, then I will... ♪

- ♪ Sit on 'em ♪
- Whoo!

♪ Open up your mouth
if you want the food ♪

♪ To get... Flipmode
'Cause I'm in the mood ♪

♪ Uh-huh! Uh-huh!
Yeah man, that's how it goes ♪

♪ Body drippin' with blood
comin' out your nose ♪

- ♪ Give me a Band-Aid ♪
- ♪ What are you askin' for? ♪

♪ More
only your sacred and pure ♪

♪ Adverse, Zig-Zag
Check it and the Busta new rap ♪

♪ Rap, Busta Rhymes
or bust this wicked rhymes ♪

♪ Yeah y'all in '92,
I'm packin' my roach spray ♪

- ♪ Anyway! ♪
- ♪ Ding-A-Ling ♪

♪ Tribe Called Quest
Leaders of the New School ♪

♪ Mad brother when stealthy
Raow, raow, raow! ♪

♪ To my dragon, baby
stop whinin' ♪

♪ I see my influence
still shinin' ♪

♪ More crazy in '92, uh-oh
Time to go, yo ♪

♪ That's the scenario! ♪

♪ Hey, yo, so don't violate
or you'll get violated ♪

♪ The hip-hop sound
is well agitated ♪

♪ We never waste our time
on the played-out ego ♪

♪ It's Busta Rhymes ♪

- ♪ With the scenario ♪
- ♪ Watch! ♪

♪ As I combine
all the juice from the mind ♪

♪ Heel up, wheel up
Bring it back ♪

- ♪ Come rewind ♪
- ♪ Say what? ♪

- ♪ Powerful impact ♪
- ♪ Boom! ♪

♪ From the cannon, not bragging
Try to read my mind ♪

♪ Just imagine
Vocabulary's necessary ♪

♪ When digging into my library ♪

- ♪ Let's go ♪
- ♪ Oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh ♪

♪ Eating Ital Stew
Like the one Peter Tosh ♪

♪ Uh, uh, uh
All over the track, man ♪

♪ Uh, pardon me, uh
As I come back ♪

- ♪ Come on ♪
- ♪ As I did it, yo ♪

- ♪ I heard you beg your pardon ♪
- ♪ Come on ♪

♪ When I travel
through the town ♪

♪ I roll with the squadron ♪

♪ "Raow, raow,"
like a dungeon dragon ♪

♪ Change your little drawers
'Cause your pants are sagging ♪

♪ Try to step to this
I will twist you in a turban ♪

- ♪ Come on ♪
- ♪ And have you smelling ripe ♪

♪ Like some old stale urine ♪

♪ Chickity-choco
The chocolate chicken ♪

♪ The rear cock diesel
Butt cheeks they were kicking ♪

- ♪ Yo ♪
- ♪ Bust it out ♪

♪ Before the Busta bust
another rhyme ♪

- ♪ The rhythm is in sync ♪
- ♪ Uh ♪

- ♪ The rhymes are on time ♪
- ♪ Time ♪

♪ Rippin' up the sound
Just like ♪

♪ Observe the vibe
And check out the scenario ♪

♪ Here we go yo, here we go yo ♪

♪ So what, so what
So what's the scenario ♪

- ♪ Come on ♪
- ♪ Here we go, yo ♪

- ♪ Come on ♪
- ♪ Here we go, yo ♪

♪ So what, so what ♪

- ♪ So what's the scenario ♪
- ♪ Jump up, right ♪

- ♪ Here we go, yo ♪
- ♪ Check-check it ♪

- ♪ Here we go, yo ♪
- ♪ Check-check it ♪

♪ So what, so what
so what's the scenario? ♪

- ♪ Here we go, yo ♪
- ♪ Check-check it ♪

♪ Here we go, yo ♪

♪ So what, so what
so what's the scenario? ♪

Tribe, thank you, Tribe.
Y'all gave birth to me, Tribe.

Congrats, Tribe.

Whoo!

1984.

It was pop music's
best year ever.

I should know. I lived it.

Hey, everyone.

It's me, Cyndi Lauper,
back here in '84.

Hi, 2024 Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame.

The Rock Hall Museum
is celebrating

the 40th anniversary of 1984.

It was the year of Prince,
Madonna, Van Halen.

The year of Tina,
Boy George, Bruce,

Michael, and me.

This new music called
"hip-hop" was breaking through,

and Band Aid
brought us together.

It's the year MTV
went nationwide

and changed music forever,

bringing acts like Eurythmics

and Duran Duran
right into your living room.

♪ 1984 ♪

Traveling through time to 1984

is not the only thing you can do

at the Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame and Museum.

Not by a long shot.

You can witness the power
of revolutionary women in music.

Celebrate five decades
of hip-hop.

Rock
with Jersey superstars Bon Jovi.

Channel your inner pop star
in the garage.

And of course, explore every
Hall of Fame inductee.

So, what are you waiting for?
Come back to the '80s.

Celebrate the present
and get a glimpse of the future,

all at the same time

at the Rock & Roll Hall
of Fame and Museum

in Cleveland, Ohio,

'cause Cleveland rocks!
And tell 'em Cindy sent you.

To induct Mary J. Blige,

Method Man,

and Rock & Roll
Hall of Famer, Dr Dre.

Yes, yes.

Yes, I'm here to represent
for Mary J. Blige.

Me and Mr. Meth.

Mary J. Blige
has single-handedly created

an entirely new genre of music.

Now, how many artists
can say that shit?

How many?

Yeah, her trailblazing album,
What's the 411?,

introduced a young Mary
to the world

with her powerful R&B vocals

and a storytelling ability
and sensibility.

She in turn introduced the world
to hip-hop soul,

and paving the way
for countless collaborations

between R&B and hip-hop artists
we all know and love.

Because let's face it,

you don't just listen
to a Mary album,

you feel that shit
in your soul, right?

Every single syllable.

When you listen to Mary,

we're reminded
we're not alone in heartbreak.

She's been
singing our experiences,

soothing us at the same time.

For years with audiences
around the world.

And that's what Mary is about.

Mary has empowered us

to keep going
no matter how hard things are.

Right?

And that lets us know
that there is another day.

Over a 30-year span,
Mary has consistently ranked

as the most important artist
of a generation,

earning her the moniker,
"Queen of Hip-Hop Soul."

Right?

Mary J. Blige
is the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul.

As her collaborator and friend,

I am thrilled to be a part
of inducting Mary J. Blige

into the Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame.

All right. Um.

You all look good tonight. Nice.

All right, so...

Dre and I are here tonight
to declare it.

Mary J. Blige is indeed
the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul.

She's the queen

because everything
she's achieved.

She's the queen
because when Mary walks

into the room,

you know, you're in the presence
of royalty.

Royalty that came
from the streets of Yonkers, yo.

And rose up to the stratosphere.

And when you hear her voice,
mm-mmm,

when you hear that voice,
you know there's no one better.

That sound of that voice
is unforgettable,

but it's where
that voice comes from

that truly makes Mary the Queen.

She reaches deep inside
and challenges herself

to find that strength of a woman

and demands
that you do the same.

So, when she sings,

you know what it feels
like to be seen,

to live in a world
where all of our stories matter.

Mary and I work together

on I'll Be There for You/
You're All I Need to Get By.

Uh-huh. That was decades ago,
but Mary already had the touch.

And believe me, I felt it.

Like she always does,
she raised the track

to impossible heights
and took me to places

I didn't realize I could go,

like the Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame ceremony.

That's just
what she does, though.

When you talk
about hip-hop soul,

that's one of
its defining moments.

I know that Mary sang
about "No More Drama,"

but, um, there is no singer
more dramatic than she is.

Please believe that.

She brings out the best
in everyone around her.

It's a matter of survival.

You know
you need to bring your A-game,

or she'll just blow you
off the stage.

No matter what
she's singing about,

she's ultimately singing
about herself.

She hits you hard
with her own personal power.

But then everyone talks
about Mary's emotional force,

and no doubt
that force is overwhelming.

But no one should ever overlook
Mary's intelligence.

I'll say it again.

No one should ever overlook
Mary's intelligence.

She is an artist
of the very highest order.

She knows exactly
what she's doing,

and she is always in command.

Mary knows how to cut loose
and hit all the right notes,

and that's why,
after all these years,

there are not enough
superlatives left

to say about her. I mean,

she needs the whole floor
to house all the awards

that she so deservedly got,
trust me.

She deserves
all the incredible recognition

that comes her way,
especially this induction

into the Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame.

Let's give
a big round of applause.

Mary Blige.

♪ Congratulations ♪

I always knew that I could sing
and I wanted to sing.

♪ I hope you're happy ♪

I didn't think that, you know,
stuff like that could happen

to somebody like me.

The head of A&R at Uptown

was pestering me all day,
knocking on my door.

♪ ...you remind me, yeah... ♪

"Just listen to this."

♪ You remind me ♪

"Who is this?
She's 19 years old."

"Where she living?"
"Yonkers."

I said, "I'm coming tomorrow."

♪ I don't remember
How we fell apart ♪

It's all what I grew up on,
so it's truth.

It's all a part
of it being real.

♪ Reminisce on the love we had ♪

She just puts her whole truth
into what she sings,

into every single note
she sings.

♪ All I really want to... ♪

♪ I don't have to worry
about nothin' anymore ♪

♪ I said I wanna be happy ♪

♪ I'm going down ♪

You can't teach anybody
the flavor.

That's what it's all about.

If you don't have it,
you just don't have it.

And it turns out I had it.

♪ ...baby ♪

♪ My whole world's
upside down... ♪

So raw,
so vulnerable, so bold,

and unafraid to be who she is,
she made it okay for people

to say
"It's all right to be me."

♪ Wasted my years
A fool of a wife ♪

♪ I should have left your ass
long time ago ♪

♪ No more ♪

♪ No, no more ♪

♪ No more drama, no more... ♪

There's nothing
that can embarrass me anymore.

You don't have to be sad.
You don't have to hate yourself.

"You don't have to do this,
Mary. Wake up."

♪ No more drama ♪

Something just
automatically happens to me,

like, with certain songs.

I can't even explain
the place that I go to,

because it's not here.

♪ Making you dance all night
and I ♪

♪ Got some real heat
It doesn't matter ♪

Boy,
I wanted to be Mary.

Boy, I mean,
what girl didn't?

I started to feel good

about being a little rougher
around the edges,

about having
a strong point of view.

♪ ...anybody who's ever loved
Ya know just what I feel ♪

♪ Too hard to fake it
Nothing can replace it ♪

♪ Call the radio if you just
can't be without your baby ♪

I've worked with so many people.
I've been blessed

to have these people
wanna work with me.

I was a nobody guy
with a nobody label,

and she came through for me.

Anything that Mary needs
from me is done, like anything.

She pulled me
to the side and she said,

you're going to be a star.

She celebrates other artists,

and she understands the journey

because she is so honest.

♪ ...love is a temple
Love is a higher law ♪

♪ You ask for me to enter
But then you make me crawl ♪

♪ I can't keep holding on
to what you've got ♪

♪ 'Cause all you got is hurt ♪

She could exist in any genre
and you would still love her

because she carries soul
in everything that she does.

And it is absolutely foolish...

to try and sing
a Mary J. Blige song

'cause she's the greatest singer
who ever lived.

♪ I made it to the end
I nearly paid the cost... ♪

I was always blue
and always sad,

but singing made me feel free.

That's what I had.
That's what I held onto.

♪ I'd do it all again
'Cause I made it to the top ♪

♪ I can't keep doubting myself
anymore... ♪

You sing one note
and you can make everybody cry.

And that's Mary J. Blige.

You know,
that's why she's the queen.

♪ I can't keep doubting myself,
no... ♪

And my heart
is that little girl in Yonkers.

My heart is that teenager trying

to get through
and making it through.

My heart is not being afraid
to expose my truth

and my soul to touch
someone else's life.

Thank you.

And now, the newest member

of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

We'd like to introduce

- Mary J. Blige.
- Blige.

♪ La-dee-da-da-da ♪

♪ Da-da-la-la-la-la-la, la-la ♪

♪ Oh
Da-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la ♪

♪ La-da-da-da-da ♪

♪ My life, my life
My life, my life ♪

- ♪ Oh ♪
- ♪ In the sunshine ♪

♪ If you looked at my life
and see what I've seen ♪

♪ La-da-da-da-da-da ♪

♪ If you looked at my life
and see what I've seen ♪

♪ My life, my life
My life, my life ♪

♪ In the sunshine ♪

♪ Life can be
only what you make it ♪

♪ When you're feeling down
You should never fake it ♪

♪ Say what's on your mind ♪

♪ And you'll find it's time ♪

♪ That all the negative energy ♪

♪ It will all decease ♪

♪ And you'll be at peace
with yourself ♪

♪ Mmm, mmm, mmm ♪

♪ You won't really need
no one else ♪

♪ Except for the man up above ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Because he'll give you love ♪

Lucky Daye.

♪ My life, my life
My life, my life ♪

♪ If you look in my eyes
And see what I've seen ♪

♪ Move it ♪

♪ Hey, hey ♪

♪ Baby
There's no need to tell you ♪

♪ As far as I can clearly recall
My love has been here for you ♪

♪ So you don't have
to worry at all ♪

♪ I'll sacrifice my time ♪

♪ I'll make sure
you're satisfied ♪

♪ And it's no hard thing
to the joy I'll bring ♪

♪ I wanna give you
all of my love, yeah ♪

♪ Said I have been loving you
Loving you every day ♪

♪ I'm loving you ♪

♪ Don't you look no more
Love without a limit ♪

- ♪ Love without a limit ♪
- ♪ Said I have been loving you ♪

♪ Loving you every day ♪

♪ I have been loving you, boy ♪

- ♪ Don't you look no more ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪

- ♪ Love without a limit ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪

Come on, Ella.

♪ Baby
I'm in need of your love ♪

♪ And you've got that touch
that I need so much ♪

- ♪ And I am about to explode ♪
- ♪ Explode ♪

♪ Really, completely
everything you want I'll be ♪

- ♪ Good love ♪
- ♪ Good love ♪

- ♪ Down to the last drop ♪
- ♪ Down to the last drop ♪

- ♪ And I am not going to stop ♪
- ♪ And I am not going to stop ♪

- ♪ No, no, no, no ♪
- ♪ No, no, no, no ♪

- ♪ Everyday ♪
- ♪ Everyday ♪

♪ Don't you look no more
Love without a limit ♪

Come on, everybody.
Put your hands together.

- ♪ Loving you ♪
- ♪ Loving you every day ♪

- ♪ Is all I wanna do ♪
- ♪ Is all I wanna do ♪

- ♪ Loving you ♪
- ♪ Loving you ♪

- ♪ Is all I wanna do ♪
- ♪ Is all I wanna do ♪

Thank you.

♪ How can I love somebody else ♪

♪ If I can't love myself enough
to know ♪

♪ When it's time ♪

♪ Time to let go ♪

- ♪ Sing ♪
- ♪ All I really want ♪

- ♪ Yeah, oh, yeah ♪
- ♪ Is to be happy ♪

♪ And to find a love
that's mine ♪

- ♪ It would be so sweet ♪
- ♪ Hey ♪

- ♪ All I really want ♪
- ♪ Oh ♪

♪ Is to be happy ♪

♪ I wanna be happy, yeah ♪

- ♪ It would be so sweet ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪

♪ I just wanna be so, so happy ♪

♪ But the answer lies in me ♪

♪ I do believe ♪

♪ That we can be happy ♪

♪ I said I wanna be happy ♪

♪ Come on everybody get on up ♪

♪ 'Cause you know
we gots to get it crunk ♪

♪ Mary J.
Is in the spot tonight ♪

♪ And I'ma make you
feel all right ♪

♪ Make you feel all right ♪

♪ Come on baby
just party with me ♪

♪ Let loose
and set your body free ♪

♪ Leave your situations
at the door ♪

♪ But when you step inside
Let's get it crunk ♪

- ♪ Let's get it crunk upon ♪
- ♪ Let's get it crunk upon ♪

♪ In this dancery ♪

- ♪ We got y'all open ♪
- ♪ Oh ♪

♪ Now ya floatin' ♪

- ♪ So you gots to dance for me ♪
- ♪ You gots to dance for me ♪

♪ Don't need no hateration ♪

- ♪ Holleration in this dancery ♪
- ♪ Holler, holler, holler ♪

♪ Let's get it perculatin'
While you're waiting ♪

- ♪ So just dance for... ♪
- ♪ So just dance for me... ♪

♪ Don't, don't need no ♪

♪ Just tryin'
to love one another ♪

♪ We just want y'all
to have a good time ♪

♪ "No more drama" in your life ♪

♪ Work real hard
to make a dime ♪

♪ If you got beef
Your problem, not mine ♪

- ♪ Leave all that BS outside ♪
- ♪ Leave all that BS outside ♪

- ♪ We're gonna... ♪
- ♪ We're gonna celebrate ♪

- ♪ All night ♪
- ♪ Let's have fun ♪

♪ Tonight, no fights ♪

♪ Turn that Dre track
way up high ♪

♪ Making you dance all night
and I ♪

♪ Got some real heat ♪

♪ It doesn't matter ♪

- ♪ Let's get it crunk upon ♪
- ♪ Let's get it crunk upon ♪

- ♪ In this dancery ♪
- ♪ In this dancery ♪

- ♪ ...now ya floatin' ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪

- ♪ So you gots to dance for me ♪
- ♪ You gotta dance for me ♪

- ♪ Just dance for me ♪
- ♪ ...holleration ♪

- ♪ In this dancery ♪
- ♪ Come on, so, so ♪

- ♪ Let's get it perculatin' ♪
- ♪ So, so, so ♪

♪ While you're waiting ♪

- ♪ So just dance for me ♪
- ♪ So just dance for me ♪

- Killed that shit.
- Thank you, I love you.

- Killed that shit.
- Oh, my God.

- It's all love. You know.
- Killed that shit!

- Wow.
- Broadway.

- Let's go!
- Whoo!

Oh, man.

Thank you so much.

I can't...

Thank y'all so much.

Man, um. Wow, I...

This is... this is a lot.

This is a lot.

And like I said yesterday,

to all the people
who know who I am

and where I come from.

Man,
it's been a long time comin'.

And there was times in my life
I didn't think I would be here,

but we here.

I'm here.

And I'm grateful.

I want to thank, um...

John Sykes, Rick Fram
for the nomination.

Of all of you that voted,
thank you so much.

I appreciate you.

Um.

I have to start first
and foremost by...

by... giving praise.

And thanks and honor,
and all the glory

to the Most High God.

To my Lord.

To my savior, Jesus Christ.

Because if it wasn't for him,

I'm telling you,
there'd be none of this.

And like I said,
"If you're a fan

of Mary J. Blige,
you know that I needed God."

I needed something
other than man.

That...
you see how that,

that didn't work, right?

Um. I wanna thank my mother.

Mommy, I love you so much.

I watched you struggle

as a single mother
raising your two babies

in a project that was...

I mean, could have
damn near been a prison.

And you did it for us.

You did it.

And you instilled that
into us to work hard

and take care of ourselves.

I wouldn't be standing here
if it wasn't for you.

I love you so much.

You pushed me beyond
what I thought I was capable of,

just with your strength.

I want to thank...
my family in New York,

my family in Georgia,

my family all over the place.

I mean,
I have family everywhere.

And I wanna thank
my amazing friends.

I have some amazing friends
that hold me down, lift me up.

And I'ma see y'all
back up top...

Next week, and we're gonna
keep celebrating.

Thank you to the beautiful
and talented Ella Mai,

a real one, a beautiful one.

And to the soulful
and talented, Lucky Daye,

I love you guys
and appreciate you so much.

You're both beautiful people
and amazing artists.

And I'm so proud
of what you're doing in R&B,

the future of R&B.
Y'all are killing the game.

I want to give a special thanks
to two of my lifelong friends,

who really embody what it means
to be a friend and brother.

Y'all have always been there
for me,

from music to television,
Method Man and Dr. Dre.

Man, I love y'all.

I love y'all
and appreciate you so much.

These guys are here
with me today,

and they're my friends,
and I call them my friends,

because I won my first...

I was
on the Share My World album

or something like that,

and I haven't had
a Grammy at all.

Been nominated,
but nobody gave me one.

I was like,
"All right, whatever."

But then I did All I Need
with Method Man.

And I won my first Grammy ever
with Method Man.

And then one day,
I was just home

minding my business,
working hard,

grinding like I always do.

And my amazing friends,
Dr. Dre and Jimmy lovine,

called me and said, "Hey, Mary",

do you wanna be a part
of this little show?"

I was like, "Yeah, whatever,
little show, anything for Dre."

And it was the Super Bowl.

I said, "Oh, the Super Bowl!"

"Oh, yeah."

And I won my first Emmy
ever with Dr. Dre,

and a Super Bowl performance.

I'm so grateful.

That's what friendship is about,
winning together.

Thank you, guys,
for being here with me tonight.

Thank you.

Now, if you're in this business,

you're talented,
or whatever talent you have,

talent requires a team
to be terrific and awesome.

Exchange is the process of life.

And when you stop exchanging,
you become stagnant.

I wanna give a big,
special thank you

to my team
that helps me be terrific

in all my endeavors.

I love you guys,
and thank you for helping me.

Lou. Peggy. Sherry.

Robin.

I love... I'm about to...

I love y'all so much.
When I came to you guys,

I was fresh out of divorce
and had no money.

But we did this damn thing.

And I love y'all.

TriStar team, let's go.

I wanna thank Jim, Kyle,
Lila from APA, and Keith,

Amanda Silverman.

And Amanda D.R.
from The Lead Company,

Dina and Mariah, Dina D.,

at the Lapointe firm, law firm.

My sister, Latonya.

And the Blue Butterfly team,
my production company,

my little brother.

I wanna thank my security team

who protects and hold me down
in them streets.

And I wanna thank Lam

for just making me feel
so beautiful tonight.

To my fans, to my fans,

to my fans, to my fans.

To my fans.

To my fans, y'all endured blood,
sweat, and tears with me

and helped me heal...

just as much as you said
I helped you heal.

None of this would be possible,

none of this would be
happening if it wasn't

for you guys supporting us
and cheering us,

cheering us on
and for your die-hard love

and... and loyalty.

None of this would be happening.

I wouldn't be here
if you didn't cheer for me,

if you didn't buy those records.

There aren't any words
that can express...

all that you've done for me
and how appreciative I am.

It is imperative
that I say this now...

to all the artists
who are my peers

and the artists just coming up.

The miracle is in the movement.

Faith without works is dead.

Keep believing and keep moving,

so that God can get
the highest glory

through your testimony,
so that you can help somebody.

It's not enough
to just be beautiful

and talented.

Thank you.

But it's not enough.
It's not enough.

Sustaining comes
from having humility...

and the way you treat yourself
and others.

Life is full of peaks
and valleys.

So, be careful
how you treat others

because you never know
who you're gonna need

on your way up
or on your way down.

So I say this, move with grace.

Trust the process
of your journey.

Share your wisdom and love

and respect with all
who crosses your path.

Offer forgiveness because
we all are worse in progress.

You don't have to wait
until you're perfect

to feel worthy. You are worthy.

You are worthy.

And when I tell you this,
When I was at my worst,

I didn't know this,
but God approved of me

at my worst,
and He still approves in me,

and He approves in us all.

So just continue to do
whatever work you're doing.

This is history for me
and my family and my friends,

and tonight
I share this induction

with every one of you guys.

If I stopped it all today,
I'd like to be remembered

as someone who wasn't
afraid to give her life

through her music to help heal,

uplift, and touch
the lives of others.

I'm beyond grateful for wisdom,
knowledge, understanding,

and self-awareness,
compassion, patience.

Well, the patience one
I'm still working on.

I don't have much patience.

But I'm getting there.
I'm beyond grateful.

Beyond grateful for everything.
I love you guys.

I am grateful

that I'm loved and I'm capable

now to give love.

When I said
I wanted to be happy,

I really meant that.

And I'm not talking
about just the happiness

where you're delusional
and think everything is okay.

I'm talking about the happiness
where you know

there will be trials, but you're
just gonna smile anyway

because you believe
you'll get through it.

That kind of happiness.

Almost done.
I'm building for expansion.

I'm building for longevity.

I'm building for legacy.
And I'm building for history.

This whole time, I was building
to be a rock star, and now I am.

The queen of hip-hop soul
is a rock star.

Thank you,
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

For this.

I love you guys.

The road
has been something

I've loved all my life.

I was probably born to be on it.

I feel very blessed to strike a chord
with the work that I do.

♪ Come and lay down
by my side ♪

The albums
that I've cut represent

what I've been going through.

They're sort of little chapters
in the book of my life.

♪ All I'm taking is your time ♪

♪ Help me make it
through the night ♪

I hope that
I'll just be creative.

Try dying.

♪ I'll be there with a love
that will shelter you ♪

♪ I'll be there with a love
that will see you through ♪

♪ All by myself ♪

♪ Don't wanna be ♪

♪ All by myself anymore ♪

♪ All by myself ♪

♪ I wanna live this alone ♪

♪ Can't leave it up to him ♪

♪ He's knocking on my door ♪

♪ Johnny come lately ♪

♪ A new kid in town ♪

♪ Everybody loves you ♪

♪ So don't let them down ♪

♪ Well, I don't know
why I came here tonight ♪

♪ I got the feeling
that something ain't right ♪

♪ I'm so scared
in case I fall off my chair ♪

♪ And I'm wondering
how I'll get down the stairs ♪

♪ Clowns to the left of me
Jokers to the right ♪

♪ Here I am
Stuck in the middle with you ♪

♪ Yeah, that's the way ♪

♪ Whoo! Come on, Kool ♪

♪ Uh, funky baby ♪

♪ Lay it on me now
Not so hard, man, we cool ♪

♪ Let the music take your mind ♪

♪ Take your mind?
Wanna feel it deep inside ♪

♪ Could it be
I'm falling in love ♪

♪ Whoo! ♪

♪ Could it be
I'm falling in love ♪

♪ With you ♪

♪ With you ♪

♪ With you ♪

♪ Walking in the sand, remember
Walking hand in hand ♪

♪ Remember
The night was so exciting ♪

♪ Remember
Smile was so inviting ♪

♪ Remember ♪

♪ Softly, softly
We'd meet with our lips ♪

♪ Whatever happened to the boy
that I once knew? ♪

♪ The boy who said
he'd be true ♪

♪ You're my blue sky
You're my sunny day ♪

♪ Lord, you know
you make me high ♪

♪ When you turn your love
my way ♪

♪ Turn your love
My way, yeah, yeah ♪

To induct
Ozzy Osbourne

into the Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame, Jack Black.

What's up, Cleveland?
Make some noise!

Plumber.

Car horn tuner.

Slaughterhouse worker.

The greatest frontman
in the history of rock and roll,

Ozzy Osbourne.

I remember the first time
I heard of Ozzy,

I was thirteen years old,
wandering around

the record store.

"What should I get?"

Sticks? Journey?

An older rock aficionado noticed
my indecision and he said,

"Stop fucking around, kid."

"This is the album
you need to get,

"The Blizzard of Ozz."

Man, was he right.

Thank you,
nameless rock aficionado,

wherever you are,
you changed my life.

I remember looking at that...

that album cover,

at Ozzy's face.

Before I even heard the music,
I was transfixed.

He looked so cool.

That rad white suit
with the white fringe

on the sleeves,

that crazy look in his eyes,

the skull, the cross.

Holy shit!

The whole thing
just looked so badass.

It was the most metal thing
I'd ever seen,

and I didn't even know
what metal was.

He was teaching me.

I didn't realize I was entering
a whole new world

of heavy metal music.

I took that record home.

And when the needle
hit the vinyl,

heaven opened up above me.

I don't know!

Then track two, Crazy Train.

There was an explosion
of colors in my brain.

Suicide Solution.

Mr. Crowley, Revelation,
even Goodbye to Romance.

You best believe Ozzy
could take it down a notch.

He could do it all.

Blizzard of Ozz
was the best thing

I'd ever heard.
A heavy metal masterpiece.

That fucking sound
was raw power.

Randy fucking Rhodes.

Yeah.

Giving Eddie Van Halen
a run for his money.

And Ozzy, that voice,
it could cut through glass,

magic, joy, beauty.

So then I went back
into Ozzy's earlier albums,

to Black Sabbath,

and I was like, "Unholy shit",

"this motherfucker
invented heavy metal."

Along with... Yeah,
Along with Geezer Butler,

Bill Ward,
and the immortal Tony lommi,

the darkest, heaviest shit
the world had ever heard.

And through all that power,

Ozzy's voice carving

through the sonic blast furnace
like an air raid siren.

He made the hairs on the back
of my neck stand at attention,

clear and crisp
as a morning bell.

And that smile,
he looked so happy,

he looked insane.

So much charisma,
the Jack Nicholson of rock.

Okay, so he invented a genre,

had the greatest second act
comeback in rock history.

Then what?

How about No More Tears
in 1991 with the guitar god,

Zakk Wylde,
proving insane lasting power,

five times platinum.

You heard me right,
quintuple plat.

It was then that he decided
to totally touch

his tender side.

So he called up Lemmy Kilmister
from Motörhead, naturally.

And together
with Zack, they wrote,

Mama, I'm Coming Home.

And thus, Ozzy took a little dip

into the top 40
just to prove he could.

Then what?

The Osbournes.

Yeah, he teamed up
with his family

to create another genre,
reality TV.

Maybe the most
evil thing he ever did.

But there is no denying it.

His whole family
were fucking hilarious

and intensely entertaining.

Another fucking massive hit.

Then what?

Oh, maybe just a little thing
called Ozzfest.

Only the most successful
heavy metal music festival

of all times.

Ozzy, stop creating incredibly
successful genre-defining,

world-changing hits.

It's too much success
for one lifetime.

And you know a lot has been made
of his evil alliance

with the Dark Lord Satan,
but in truth,

Ozzy is a loving father
and husband and friend,

loyal to his family and friends
to the end

of the world and back.

And now I stand here.

Yeah.

Just another nameless,
rock aficionado.

And I'm talking to you,
thirteen-year-olds watching

the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame induction ceremony.

All five of you,

put down your phones.

Unless you're watching
on a phone,

then put it closer to your face.

Old man rock aficionado's
about to drop some truth.

Sure.

You could go stream Post Malone

and Taylor Swift
and get all the warm hugs

you need for your broken hearts.

Or...

You can stay up all night
and get your minds blown

by Ozzy's entire catalog
for the first time.

Holy shit!
You kids are so fucking lucky.

Ladies and gentlemen,
I'm Ozzy Osbourne,

the fucking Prince of Darkness.

♪ Straight to hell tonight ♪

I don't know what music
would be like if it weren't

for the influence of Ozzy.

It's everywhere.

He left one
of the biggest rock bands

in the world and became bigger.

The day I left Sabbath,
I thought, what have I done?

I've just blown
the biggest thing of my life.

Everybody was wondering,
what is Ozzy gonna do?

He's not in Sabbath anymore.

And he comes out
with his first two records

and they're fucking amazing.

Crazy Train really is
an absolute launching pad.

It's like Ozzy the Rocket
taking off into space.

Me and my friends
were blown away,

going, you guys have
to hear this.

♪ I'm going off the rails
on a crazy train ♪

And within all of that,
you had this guitar player

by the name of Randy Rhoads.

You heard all this
new stuff that Ozzy was doing,

and it was just like
a new era has arrived.

♪ Mr. Crowley ♪

I saw seventeen thousand kids
that raised their hands

like this, which is the sign
of the devil, as you know,

and they said "Ozzy."

Ozzy! Ozzy! Ozzy!

♪ Howling at the shadows ♪

♪ Living in a lunar spell ♪

I'm a split personality.

Ozzy Osbourne and John Osbourne
is two different people.

John Osbourne is talking
to you now.

But if I want
to be Ozzy Osbourne...

I mean,
do you like animals?

Yes, they're nice to eat.

Osbourne has a reputation,

real or not, for biting
the heads off bats.

♪ Over the mountain
Take me across the sky ♪

I mean, I suppose in the spirit
of rock and roll, I don't know.

[♪ Rock music playing,
Ozzy Osbourne

Yeah, I mean,
Ozzy is completely nuts,

and that's very good
for a frontman.

You know,
he just puts it out there

and doesn't give a shit.

He's like a loose cannon.

There's that kind of danger,

because rock and roll
should be dangerous.

♪ I don't want to
change the world ♪

I think Ozzy's music
is timeless.

[♪ Rock music playing,
Ozzy Osbourne

It gives me the chills.
It's just perfect.

♪ You could have been
a better friend to me ♪

♪ Mama, I'm coming home ♪

Ozzy Osbourne's got a voice
that is so distinctive.

It doesn't matter
what he's singing over,

you know it's him.

Ozzy is more fountain pen
than William Shakespeare.

He's totally unique.

♪ I'm coming home ♪

You play Ozzy's voice
anywhere in the world

and people go,
"That's the Prince of Darkness."

And you can't tell Ozzy's story
without his longtime guitarist,

Zakk Wylde.

The dude is a beast.

Welcome to OzzFest!

OzzFest became a staple
in the hard rock community.

I think it was
hugely responsible

for keeping the genre alive.

♪ The light in the window
is a crack in the sky ♪

My audience is better
than any drugs, alcohol.

She's the best love affair
of my life, my audience.

♪ A stairway to darkness
in the blink of an eye ♪

I think that
the audience has a sense of,

"That could be me."

The idea of being free
like Ozzy is very exciting.

Ozzy's the godfather of metal.

His legacy is so widespread.

[♪ Rock music playing,
Ozzy Osbourne

♪ 'Cause I'm
patient number nine ♪

He always
has a new song, a new album,

and new musical ideas.

His voice is his legacy.

After it's all said
and done,

I wouldn't change
a fucking thing.

It is my great honor
to officially induct

the greatest to ever lace 'em up

in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,
the one, the only Ozzy Osbourne!

Thank you.

Fucking love you guys.

Well, here we are.

You know what?

I can't believe I'm here myself,
you know what I mean?

Firstly, let me get
the thank yous out of the way,

because I'm not going
to bore you with a long,

drawn-out fucking monologue.

I'd like to thank
whoever voted me

into the Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame for my solo work.

A great thank you.

Thank you from the bottom
of my heart, I really...

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

And more so...

My fans have been
so loyal to me over the years.

I cannot thank them enough.

I've been fortunate
over the years to play

with some of the world's
greatest guitar players,

drummers, bass players,

and a few of them
are here tonight.

But I want to spend one thing
for a guy by the name

of Randy Rhoads.

If I hadn't met Randy Rhoads,

I don't think
I'd be sitting here now.

And more so, more than that,
my wife Sharon saved my life.

And my grandbabies,
and I love them all.

So, with all that,
I'm gonna get on with the show

and hand it back to Jack.

Thank you, Ozzy.

Thank you for existing,
you legend.

We love you.
Let's hear it for Ozzy.

Yeah.

And now...

to pay tribute to Ozzy,

Chad Smith, Robert Trujillo,
Adam Wakeman, Andrew Watt,

Billy Idol, Steve Stevens,

Zakk Wylde, Jelly Roll,
and to start it off,

Maynard James Keenan
and Wolfgang Van Halen!

All aboard!

♪ Crazy
But that's how it goes ♪

♪ Millions of people
living as foes ♪

♪ Maybe it's not too late ♪

♪ To learn how to love
and forget how to hate ♪

♪ Mental wounds not healing
Life's a bitter shame ♪

♪ I'm going off the rails
on a crazy train ♪

♪ I'm going off the rails
on a crazy train ♪

♪ I know that things
are going wrong for me ♪

♪ You gotta listen to my words ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

[♪ Rock music playing,
Ozzy Osbourne

♪ Times have changed
and times are strange ♪

♪ Here I come
but I ain't the same ♪

♪ Mama, I'm coming home ♪

♪ Times go by, it seems to be ♪

♪ You could have been
a better friend to me ♪

♪ Mama, I'm coming home ♪

♪ You took me in, yeah
you drove me out, yeah ♪

♪ You had me hypnotized ♪

♪ Lost and found
and turned around ♪

♪ By the fire in your eyes ♪

♪ You made me cry
You told me lies ♪

♪ But I can't stand
to say goodbye ♪

♪ Mama, I'm coming home ♪

♪ I could be right
I could be wrong ♪

♪ It hurts so bad
It's been so long ♪

♪ Mama, I'm coming home ♪

♪ Selfish love, yeah
We're both alone ♪

♪ The right before the fall ♪

♪ But I'm gonna take this
heart of stone ♪

♪ I just got to have it all ♪

♪ I've seen your face
a hundred times ♪

♪ Every day we've been apart ♪

♪ I don't care
about the sunshine, yeah ♪

♪ 'Cause Mama
Mama, I'm coming home ♪

♪ I'm coming home ♪

♪ I'm coming home ♪

♪ Ow! ♪

♪ The light in the window
is a crack in the sky ♪

♪ A stairway to darkness
in the blink of an eye ♪

♪ A levee of tears to learn
she'll never be coming back ♪

♪ The man in the dark
will bring another attack ♪

♪ Oh yeah ♪

♪ I never wanted it to end
this way ♪

♪ My love, my darling ♪

♪ Believe me
when I say to you in love ♪

♪ I think I'm falling here ♪

♪ No more tears ♪

♪ No more tears ♪

♪ No more tears ♪

♪ No more tears ♪

♪ No, no more tears ♪

♪ Yeah, no more tears ♪

♪ No, no more tears ♪

Now, before we run out of time,
I think it's about time

we learned to do
the Crocodile Walk

with John Mayall
and the Bluesbreakers.

♪ See that crocodile walk
Hey, and he lookin' my way ♪

♪ And he got no place to stay ♪

I think that's his
new guitar player.

♪ A heavy meal he's got to eat ♪

♪ He got a long way to go walk
He's lookin' for a home ♪

I think the important thing
about John is that he loved

- the role of being a sponsor.
- Yeah.

So he could bring
people into the band

and help them to bloom.

John Mayall deserves
a lot of credit.

A whole bunch of us came
out of that band,

but we're worth something.

Up to the age of 30,
I was a graphic designer.

I was trained at art school.

I mean, I'd always played music,

but, you know,
when I was 30, I switched over.

Most of the other bands
were copying

American Black R&B
and Blues products.

To me,
John was new and original,

but within the Blues framework.

♪ Another man done gone
Another man done gone ♪

♪ Another man done gone ♪

There'll be no album, yes?

This apparently
is supposed to be

the album, you know?

A lot of the energy
that I had managed

to formulate with John
stayed there,

you know, and Peter Green
actually moved in

and got hold of that.

John usually chooses
the people he wants,

chooses very carefully,
you know.

He knows what he wants,
he usually gets it.

He keeps what he gets.

He's very,
what I call, electric.

You know, he's very...
He's definitely unique.

For any musician
who's ever worked with me,

they always consider
one of my tours

a little bit crazy in the sense
that it's like a holiday.

It's like a paid holiday.

You know, you just get up there
and you play, and...

I hate to use the word jamming

because jamming
is without discipline.

You make mistakes
and you bounce off each other,

waiting to get paid
and all that.

It's all these things.

[♪ Rock music playing,
The Four Lads

♪ I'm standing on the corner
watching every kind of car ♪

♪ Friendly people come and say
they want to know your star ♪

♪ I'm walking on Sunset
everything is like a friend ♪

I'd put an advert
in the Melody Maker,

and Mick Taylor
answered that advert.

Playing the sort
of music that John plays,

um, it gives you
a lot of opportunity

to develop your own ideas.

It gives you a lot
of freedom, you know,

within the Blues framework.

God bless him.
He was the focal point of it

and the custodian of it.

♪ The laws must change one day ♪

♪ But it's goin'
to take some time ♪

I'm very proud of all
the associations I've had,

and I think
it's been a great ride.

We're not getting
very far without his vision,

influence, and talent.
He's a cornerstone

of not just British blues
rock and roll,

but of rock and roll in general.

To induct the Dave Matthews Band

into the Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame, Julia Roberts.

Hello, hello, hello.

All right,
well, the good news is,

we are halfway through.

When I was asked
to come here tonight

to perform the heart-racing task

of inducting
the Dave Matthews Band

into the Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame...

I asked one,

what felt obvious
and critical, question.

Is there anything
that I should not do or say?

Right? Music people
can be funny about things,

and I just didn't want to do
anything wrong

right off the bat.

A few days later,
I got a message

with the answer, and it said,

"When it comes
to talking about the band,"

"don't play favorites."

I thought,
"Don't play favorites?"

I've got three kids.
I'm in show business.

Favorites?
I don't play favorites.

Carter.

I wouldn't do that. Carter.

So, here we are.

Carter, I said it.

Spit out my cough drop
when I said it, but I said it.

So, here we are
on this magical night,

and I am deeply honored
to be part

of heralding these men.

Dave Matthews.

LeRoi Moore.

Carter Beauford.

Stefan Lessard.

And Boyd Tinsley.

Holding up for all time
the Dave Matthews Band.

I will speak just briefly here
about the beginning.

1991, Virginia,

these young men
were all just kicking around

with their individual
musical dreams.

Some guy knows Dave,
who's a bartender,

and he introduces him to Carter,

who I think knew LeRoi.

Then came Stefan,
and last but never least,

Boyd enters the picture.

Now, this is only
worth mentioning

because it's just so simple,
so gentle, so unelectrifying.

But then they somehow
became a band,

one that is commonly referred
to as phenomenal, stupendous,

magnificent...

And for me,
personally, life-affirming.

It's no wonder
that they have arrived here

at the Hall of Fame.

The musical talent,
the originality,

the sheer quantity
of genres they perform,

it's mind-blowing.

And I've been lucky enough
to attend

many a Dave Matthews Band concert,

and I don't think
I've ever heard

any of their songs
played the same way twice.

Right?

The songs, the stories of love
and loss, of humanity

and deep connections
and resonating responsibilities,

it's all there and more.

The joyous, spontaneous abandon
with which they play

is part of how they have
become one of the most enduring

and beloved bands
of the last 30-plus years.

The first time I ever danced
with my husband

was almost 25 years ago
to a Dave Matthews Band song.

And that was
a winning combination,

as I have been swooning over
my husband

and this band ever since.

You can clap for that, swooning.
You can clap for swooning.

Fans of the Dave Matthews Band,
we're not just fans.

We are lifelong fans, avid,
ardent fans, devoted fans.

Walk heaven and earth
to be their fans.

This is intense.
You people are wild.

Let's go.

All right, now simmer down
for a minute,

'cause now, I'm going
to tell a little story.

Being a friend
and a die-hard fan

over these many years, I have...

Well, I was enchanted
to learn a few things

when I was doing
a little homework for tonight.

I thought I would, you know,
ask some questions,

find out a little bit more
about the members of the band.

I found out some
interesting things.

Stefan Lessard, for example,
left high school his junior year

and apparently has
a number of aliases.

I didn't see that coming.

Then there's Carter.

Carter, Carter, Carter.
Everybody loves Carter.

Carter is a fellow Scorpio.
Happy almost birthday.

Now, one thing
the internet seems to go

on and on about,
but never answers

is the question

of whether or not
Carter is left-handed.

There are pages devoted
to this pondering.

There is analysis.
It's so funny.

I am left-handed

and I will tell
anybody who asks me.

But Carter, it's a mystery.

And finally,
there is David Matthews.

Don't Google him.

Don't, really.

I did it, and I was immediately
filled with regret.

The first story that comes up
about Dave Matthews

is how he suffered a stroke,
and I was stunned.

I called my best friend, Paige,

who's here tonight,
also a die-hard fan, and I said,

"Oh, sweet mother of God,
Dave Matthews had a stroke."

"Did you know this?
I didn't know this."

And as I'm going on and on,
she, of course, wisely,

has Googled it
and tells me that, in fact...

if I had read on,
I would have seen

that it was a man
named Dave Matthews

in New Zealand in his sixties.

He might be musical,
we'll never know.

He had suffered a stroke,

but was making
a beautiful recovery.

I was very relieved
and Googled on

to discover, "Oh, friends
with Adam Sandler. Hmm."

Didn't know that.

There was no mention of...
Well, anyway,

he and Ashley have
a winery, cool label,

good price point, didn't know.

And then it reads, "When did
Dave Matthews come out?"

But that refers to when
the band first came out as,

you know, a band.

So, these are the things
that happen

when you name the band
after yourself.

I'm also going to take a moment
just to add one big, robust,

congratulatory inclusion
to four more incredible gents.

Tim Reynolds.

Jeff Coffin.

Rashawn Ross.

And Buddy Strong.

Who, over the years,
have brought

their outrageous talents

to the Dave Matthews Band
family,

and we are
ever so grateful for it.

And finally, I just want
to personally give thanks

and praise to a woman
who I see as the central pillar,

the tent pole holding up
this wild circus tent,

the exceptional
Ashley Harper Matthews.

Now, I give you the music
and the story

of the band
that changed my life.

Dave's talent, it's undeniable.
It's in the songs,

it's in his voice,
it's in his body,

and his band members
believe that.

♪ Let's celebrate
Celebrate we will ♪

♪ 'Cause life is short
But sweet for certain ♪

The Dave Matthews Band
is a freight train.

It is a symphony
in and of itself.

You separate any of it,
it won't make sense.

You put it all together,
and it is mind-blowing.

♪ Hey ♪

♪ What would you say
Don't drop the big one ♪

I worked in a bar
in Virginia.

It was a club that had jazz,
and so a lot of the guys

in the band used to play there.

♪ Don't bite the mailman
What would you say ♪

What attracted me
to all these guys wasn't so much

the instruments
that they played,

but what came
through their instruments.

♪ Who's it for
There's nobody in here ♪

When we first
started out we played anywhere,

we played fraternities
as often as we could.

Fraternities were packed,
I mean,

and the same fraternity kids
came to the club.

That music was just college,

it was just a great moment

because grunge was
so big at the time

and they were definitely
not grunge,

but they were so alternative,

the college crowds
just loved it.

♪ We were above you were
Standing underneath us ♪

The first three years
we were together,

the band didn't even exist
outside of touring.

We hadn't had an album,

we hadn't been approached
by record companies.

It was entirely about being
on the road.

♪ I was soon to be crazy ♪

The audiences
grew more and more

because kids would start taping

and then sending tapes
around the country.

The word spread so fast.

It was Dave's voice,
it was Dave's guitar,

and he was surrounded
by these monster musicians

who were pretty
quickly playing stadiums.

♪ 'Cause we're
Tripping Billies ♪

♪ Satellite in my eyes ♪

♪ Like a diamond in the sky ♪

Satellite is one of the most
beautiful songs

written by a man
I've ever heard.

I can tell these aren't lyrics
that he thinks into being,

these are lyrics
that course through him.

♪ Oh, when you come ♪

♪ Crash into me ♪

The way I write lyrics is just,
you know, my lyrics

make me go...

And when they stop,
making me go...

...then I keep them.

♪ The space between
The tears we cry ♪

♪ Is the laughter
Keeps us coming back for more ♪

Dave's poetry
isn't fortune cookie poetry.

He's not a one-liner guy.

We do live
in a catchphrase time,

and Dave's songwriting,

it serves that whole four
and a half minutes.

♪ What's this you say
You feel the right to remain ♪

♪ Then stay
And I will bury you ♪

The nice thing
about a lot of the songs

is the live thing,
is still evolving,

and every night
it's gonna be different.

♪ 'Cause here we have been
standing for a long, long time ♪

Dave told me
that Roi used to push him.

He was always saying,
"Make your vocal lines"

"a little bit
more saxophone-like."

And if you listen to
So Much To Say, you can hear it.

He's, like, jumping
around like a saxophone.

♪ Let me out ♪

♪ Baby, yeah ♪

We really love to play live,

and we have some bells
and whistles,

but we don't have
anything that explodes,

except occasionally the music.

♪ I drink too much
I drink too much ♪

♪ Want too much, too much ♪

All we want
is to have fans

like the Dave Matthews Band has.

Fans that are wondering

what we're going to put
on the set list,

that have connections
to our banter

and accept us
throughout the years.

♪ And upon the sidewalk ♪

♪ People in every direction ♪

♪ No words exchanged, no time ♪

I couldn't have begged
to have a greater experience

than play in this band.

I want some other experiences,

but I don't feel like
I'm entitled to them.

Because, Jesus, how can
this happen to one person?

♪ Lights down, you up and die ♪

Oh,
I love these guys so much!

I'm thrilled to be
the first person ever

on Earth to get to say this.
Ladies and gentlemen,

here are the Rock and Roll
Hall of Famers,

the Dave Matthews Band.

♪ He wakes up in the morning ♪

♪ Does his teeth bite
To eat and he's rolling ♪

♪ Never changes a thing ♪

♪ The week ends
The week begins ♪

♪ He goes ♪

♪ Goes to visit his mommy ♪

♪ She feeds him
well his concerns ♪

♪ He forgets them
and remembers being small ♪

♪ Playing under
the table and dreaming ♪

♪ Take these chances ♪

♪ Place them in a box
until a quieter time ♪

♪ Lights down, you up and die ♪

♪ Driving along his highway ♪

♪ All these cars
and upon the sidewalk ♪

♪ People in every direction ♪

♪ No words exchanged
no time to exchange ♪

♪ When all the little ants
are marching ♪

♪ Red and black
and antennae waving ♪

♪ We all do it the same ♪

♪ We all do it the same way ♪

♪ Lights down, you up and die ♪

♪ You've got your ball
You've got your chain ♪

♪ Tied to me tight
Tie me up again ♪

♪ Who's got their claws
In you my friend ♪

♪ Into your heart
I'll beat again ♪

♪ When you come crash into me ♪

♪ Yeah, baby ♪

♪ And I come into you ♪

♪ In a boy's dream ♪

♪ Telling it like it is
In a boy's dream ♪

♪ Oh, yeah ♪

♪ Crash into me ♪

♪ Crash into me, oh, oh, oh ♪

♪ Crash into me ♪

♪ Crash into me ♪

♪ Oh and you come crash
Into me, baby ♪ ♪

♪ Keep it locked up inside
Don't talk about it ♪

♪ Just talk about the weather ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

♪ Can't see the light ♪

♪ Open up my head ♪

♪ And let me out
A-little baby ♪

♪ 'Cause here we have been
standing for a long, long time ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Treading, trotting trails
For a long, long time ♪

♪ Time, time, time
Time, time, time ♪

♪ I find ♪

♪ Sometimes it's easy
to be myself ♪

♪ Sometimes, yeah ♪

♪ I find it's better
to be somebody else ♪

♪ I got so much to say
So much to say, so much to say ♪

♪ So much to say ♪

♪ So much to say, so much to say
So much to say, so much to say ♪

♪ Open up my head ♪

♪ And let me out ♪

♪ Baby ♪

♪ Ooh, straight in
Suck up and go ♪

♪ Cool it, swallow, swallow
I breathe deep ♪

♪ Take it all, it comes cheap ♪

♪ Like pushing
through the doors ♪

♪ 'Cause in between the lines ♪

♪ I'm gonna pack more lines
So I can get it in ♪

♪ Ooh, traffic jam got more cars
Than a beach got sand ♪

♪ I suck it up, I lick it up
I fill it up until no more ♪

♪ I'm no crazy creep
I've got it coming to me ♪

♪ But I'm not satisfied
The hunger keeps on growing ♪

♪ I eat too much
I drink too much ♪

♪ I want too much, too much ♪

♪ Too much ♪

♪ Too much ♪

♪ 'Cause I eat too much
I drink too much ♪

♪ I want too much, too much ♪

Thank you very much.

Hello, and so,
there was an extra one, so...

Look, first of all,
the Class of 2024,

I've said it before,

but it does feel like
we're swimming

in very deep water here,

and just deeply grateful
for being inducted

with this incredible group
of people.

And a funny story.

I was just last weekend
with a person

I haven't seen in 30 years,

and they said,

"I was going through
some old things of mine,

"and in this drawer,

"and I found
the old Tribe Called Quest album

"that you gave me."
And I was like, "That's funny,"

because I am being
inducted with my band

into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame

along with
the Tribe Called Quest.

And I just absolutely love them.

And then I told Peter already,

I just think
the absolute world of you,

I think you're just incredible,

and you're such a big part
of my life.

Peter Frampton, what a hero.

I once was in the gym,

and Ozzy Osbourne was running
on the treadmill next to me,

and he was like...
and he was so bad.

I was like,
"Ah, it's Ozzy Osbourne,"

because...

I do have a soft spot
for Ozzy Osbourne.

And he's just...
Just as what's the truth,

he's one of the nicest people
in the world.

He really is. You meet him,
he's just like...

You can't... So, I took my son
to see him when he...

My son was little,
I went to see Black Sabbath

with my boy, and I mean,
there was a lot of blood,

but it was lovely.

But I just have to say now
that it is such an honor

to share the stage
with these guys,

night after night,
and things have changed,

but I'm gonna start my...
I'm gonna get on it now.

Carter Beauford, Stefan Lessard,

LeRoi Moore,
we wish you were here.

We miss you every day.
Tim Reynolds, I love you.

Rashawn Ross,
Buddy Strong, Jeff Coffin.

Okay, I'm gonna go fast.

Not here, obviously.
Boyd Tinsley, wherever you are,

we hope you're finding
the happiness you seek.

Butch Taylor.

He played keys
with us for years.

Thank you so much.
Peter Greisar,

the first keyboardist
in the band,

thanks for sticking
with us as long as you did.

You had bigger plans.

Tawatha Agee's here!
I saw Tawatha last night.

I'm so excited. I can't wait
to sing with you again

and all the lovely ladies.
I'm gonna go fast now.

A thousand thanks to our crew.

I know we're doing the plan

where this is
the going out music.

Thanks.

There are so many people,
too many people to thank.

I already said...

Somebody said,
and then somebody else said

that I was a bartender
at Miller's.

But...
And we all met at Miller's.

Well, at least
the original guys.

And I, for years, was a fan

of these musicians
before I ever told them

that I played the guitar.

And that bar was
a great place for musicians.

And the guy who owned
that bar is here, Steve Tharp.

Thank you for letting us put
a band together.

And another friend of ours

from that bar encouraged me
to write songs.

And John D'earth,
great trumpet player,

and he's here.
We love you, John.

Thank you for encouraging me
to take a tape of my music

to Carter and Roi,
who are my heroes.

And then they said,
"Sure, we'll play with you.

"Whatever. We got time.

"Got nothing to do
in the daytime,"

"so let's practice."

We drank a lot of liquor
at Steve's...

At the bar,
a lot of free liquor,

'cause I was a bartender,
so I was just...

I have the power.

And then Carter and me and Roi
all lived in our mom's houses,

because we were
grown men and then at the time...

And us... But Stefan
was in high school,

so he had his own place.
And he was

ahead of his time.

I'm trying to think
of things to say.

Roi said to me one day,

"You should get Rashawn
to be in the band."

I said, "You should get Rashawn
to be in the band."

And then when Roi was injured,

and we thought he needed
someone to cover for him

for a while,
Jeff Coffin stepped up,

our old friend
from the Flecktones.

And then when Roi passed,

then Jeff stayed on with us,
and we love you for that.

And Jeff... And also,

when Buddy joined the band,
it brought new life to us,

and we're so grateful
that he's here with us, too.

I think... You know,
I had so much written down,

and the poor teleprompter driver
is just like,

"What is happening?"

It's all been said already.

I mean, you know,
I wanna thank Chip Hooper,

who's not with us anymore,
for telling us where to go.

And I want to thank
my sort of long-lost friend,

Ross Hoffman, for convincing me
to finish songs.

I don't think I could have
without him.

I don't know who else to thank.

My family, our families.
We love them all so much.

And then I wanted to get
the most important thing

that I think matters
to everything,

about this band,

and probably every band here,
is our fans.

Our fans are the...

You know.

I mean, it's bananas.

And anyway...

And I blame it

on their persistence,
not on the quality of anything,

but we won the fan vote
when we were first nominated,

but we didn't get in.

And then, I mean, only because
I can see our fans like...

So, we won this time,
but I blame my fans,

our fans, sorry.

But I thought, you know...
And we got in, which is amazing.

Thank you to Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame.

But I thought
it would have been pretty cool

if we didn't get in again,
you know?

Because that'll be like...
... "Look at that."

And then hopefully we can
pull it off one more time.

But this is... We're really
happy about this.

Thank you to all the artists
that we got to share this...

I mean, heroes of all of ours.

Just unbelievable.
And thank you, everybody.

I just screwed up
the whole speech.

You're all everything.
Families, friends, everybody.

Thank you,
Julia Roberts.

So, I know a lot of you guys
are gonna be leaving now,

so we'll play some
going away music.

It is the 40th anniversary

of Stop Making Sense
by the Talking Heads,

and...

I hope I don't...

I'm gonna screw
the beginning up.

♪ Ah, watch out ♪

♪ You might get
what you're after ♪

♪ Cool babies
Strange, but not a stranger ♪

♪ I'm an ordinary guy
Burning down the house ♪

♪ Hold tight
Wait 'til the party's over ♪

♪ Hold tight
We're in for nasty weather ♪

♪ There has got to be a way ♪

♪ Burning down the house ♪

♪ Here's your ticket
Pack your bags ♪

♪ Time for jumpin' overboard ♪

♪ Transportation is here ♪

♪ Close enough, but not too far
Maybe you know where you are ♪

♪ Fightin' fire with fire ♪

♪ Ah, all wet ♪

♪ Hey, you might need a raincoat
Shakedown ♪

♪ Dreams walking
in broad daylight ♪

♪ 365 degrees ♪

♪ Burning down the house ♪

♪ It was once upon a place
Sometimes, I listen to myself ♪

♪ Gonna come in first place ♪

♪ People on their way to work
Well, baby, what do you expect ♪

♪ Gonna burst into flames, ah ♪

You guys want some more?

♪ Burning down the house ♪

♪ My house
Is out of the ordinary ♪

♪ That's right
Don't wannna hurt nobody ♪

♪ Some things sure can sweep me
off my feet ♪

♪ Burning down the house ♪

Thank you all very, very much.

Thank you. Hey, thanks,
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Thank you to our fans.
And thank you, Cleveland.