LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame has inducted its 2025 class of music giants.
The ceremony held Saturday at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater was a mixture of tributes, speeches and performances by acts like Soundgarden, Salt-N-Pepa and Large Boi of Outkast, together with quite a few A-list musical company.
Artists turn out to be eligible for the corridor 25 years after their first music launch.
Right here’s a take a look at this 12 months’s Rock Corridor class, a couple of of their defining songs and who inducted them.
Outkast
American rap duo that started within the Nineties. Key songs: “Hey Ya,” “Ms. Jackson” and “Roses.”
Inducted by Donald Glover. Medley efficiency included Large Boi, Janelle Monáe, JID, Doja Cat, Killer Mike, Sleepy Brown
Unhealthy Firm
English rock band shaped within the Seventies. Key songs: “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” “Can’t Get Enough,” “Bad Company.”
Inducted by Mick Fleetwood. Unhealthy Firm drummer Simon Kirke was joined by Nancy Wilson of Coronary heart and Joe Perry of Aerosmith on guitars and Black Crowes lead singer Chris Robinson on vocals.
Cyndi Lauper
American singer and songwriter whose solo profession started within the early Eighties. Key songs: “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,” “Time After Time,” “True Colors.”
Inducted by Chappell Roan. Lauper carried out a medley of her hits, together with duets with Avril Lavigne, Raye and Salt-N-Pepa.
Soundgarden
American rock band shaped in 1984. Key songs: “Black Hole Sun,” “Fell on Black Days,” and “Outshined.”
Inducted by Jim Carrey. Surviving Soundgarden members carried out with Taylor Momsen and Brandi Carlile, who took the place of late vocalist Chris Cornell. Cornell’s daughter, Toni, additionally carried out with Nancy Wilson.
Salt-N-Pepa
American rap group shaped within the Eighties. Key songs: “Push It,” “Let’s Talk About Sex” and “Shoop.”
Inducted by Missy Elliott, the group carried out a medley of their hits with a particular look from En Vogue.
Chubby Checker
American singer who started releasing data within the Fifties. Key songs: “The Twist,” “Limbo Rock,” “Let’s Twist Again.”
Inducted through video tribute. Checker accepted remotely through a video feed.
Joe Cocker
English singer who started releasing data within the Nineteen Sixties and died in 2014. Key songs: “You Are So Beautiful,” “Up Where We Belong,” “With a Little Help From My Friends.”
Inducted by Bryan Adams. Medley efficiency by Teddy Swims, Tedeschi Vans Band, together with Adams, Lauper, Chris Robinson and Nathaniel Rateliff who took the stage for a rendition of “With A Little Help from My Friends.”
The White Stripes
American rock band that started within the Nineties. Key songs: “Seven Nation Army,” “We’re Going to Be Friends,” “Doorbell.”
Inducted by Iggy Pop. Tribute efficiency by Olivia Rodrigo, Feist and Twenty One Pilots.
Warren Zevon
American singer-songwriter who started releasing solo data within the early Seventies and died in 2003. Key songs: “Lawyers, Guns and Money,” “Werewolves of London,” “Keep Me in Your Heart.”
Inducted by David Letterman. Honored with efficiency by the Killers.
Carole Kaye
American session musician who performed on scores of hits beginning within the Fifties, totally on bass. Key songs: The Seashore Boys’ “Good Vibrations,” Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots are Made for Walkin’,” Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were.”
Inducted through video tribute.
Thom Bell
American music producer and songwriter beginning within the Nineteen Sixties who died in 2022. Key songs: the Delfonics’ “La-La (Means I Love You),” the Spinners’ “The Rubberband Man,” the Stylistics’ “You Make Me Feel Brand New.”
Inducted through video tribute.
Nicky Hopkins
English session musician who performed keyboards on dozens of hits beginning within the Nineteen Sixties and died in 1994. Key songs: the Beatles’ “Revolution,” the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil,” Cocker’s “You Are So Beautiful.”
Inducted through video tribute.
Lenny Waronker
American music producer and govt beginning within the Seventies. Key songs from artists he produced or signed: Rickie Lee Jones’ “Chuck E’s in Love,” Prince’s “Purple Rain,” R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion.”
Inducted through video tribute.
