After pacing anxiously around the podium a couple of times, he gave a warm speech praising Grubman before veering into a different subject: “Now Allen is Jewish,” he said, raising eyebrows before launching into a tirade against antisemitism that was clearly, although he didn’t say it, directed at the hatred Kanye West has launched in recent weeks. The induction of super-lawyer Allen Grubman may have seemed like a bathroom break for many in the crowd, but it’s safe to say the ever-unpredictable John Mellencamp kept most people in their seats when he inducted his longtime attorney. John Mellencamp Says “Fuck Antisemitism and All Forms of Bigotry” (Photo by Amy Sussman/WireImage) WireImage Inductee Allen Grubman (L) and John Mellencamp speak onstage during the 37th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at Microsoft Theater on Novemin Los Angeles, California. I’m not gonna stand here and cry or anything, that would be inappropriate, but that’s what I feel like.”
While the group kept things upbeat during the speech, later in the press room Le Bon said emotionally, “It is devastating news to find out that a colleague… not a colleague - a friend, one of our family - is not gonna be around for very long. And while their set got off to a bumpy start that will definitely not be televised - only the vocals were audible for the 30 seconds or so before they stopped and restarted, with Simon Le Bon joking “It’s just to prove to you that we weren’t lip-synching!,” the group powered through a medley of “Girls on Film,” “Hungry Like the Wolf” and “Ordinary World.” Yet the moment became sad during their acceptance speech, when Le Bon read a message from guitarist Andy Taylor announcing that he was not present because he has been diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer. The Durannies were out in force on this night - people wearing their T-shirts outnumbered any others we saw by a 10:1 ratio - and the group, which opened the show, was greeted by middle-aged people shrieking like it was 1984. (Christopher Polk/Variety) Christopher Polk for Variety He immediately brought the weary crowd to its feet with a blistering medley of “My Name Is,” “Rap God” - with its almost impossibly fast verses - “Sing for the Moment” - featuring a guest spot from a fresh-from-rehab Steven Tyler - “Stan” - with Ed Sheeran singing the segment originally sung by Dido and later by Elton John - “Forever” and “Not Afraid.” He also capped his gracious and grateful acceptance speech by speaking in typically frank terms of his own recovery from substance abuse, and then reading off an alphabetical list of approximately 50 of the rappers who influenced him, from 2 Live Crew to X-Clan.ĭuran Duran, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Simon Le Bon, and Roger Taylor at the 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Red Carpet held at the Microsoft Theatre on Novemin Los Angeles, California. Dre - who continued the evening’s frequent theme of tolerance and peace by pointing out how this pioneering white rapper “forced us to confront our own biases” - Eminem took the stage at around the evening’s four-and-a-half-hour mark. After an induction speech from none other than Dr. Although he last toured just four years ago, Eminem concerts have been a fairly rare thing over the past decade - and his electrifying performance on the Rock Hall stage just makes you shake your head and wonder why someone who can light up a stage like that doesn’t do it more often.
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