LOS ANGELES (AP) — Outkast, Cyndi Lauper, Salt-N-Pepa and Soundgarden shall be among the many newly minted members of the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame at Saturday evening’s induction ceremony.
From Chubby Checker to the White Stripes, artists representing each decade from the Fifties to the 2000s shall be inducted as a part of the corridor’s class of 2025.
Chappell Roan is ready to induct Lauper, and Avril Lavigne is ready to take the stage together with her. Donald Glover has been tapped to induct Outkast, and Elton John is scheduled to pay musical tribute to corridor member Brian Wilson, who died earlier this yr.
However the function performed by the various different introduced visitor stars, together with Missy Elliot, Olivia Rodrigo and Twenty One Pilots, stays a thriller on an evening that’s at all times outlined by its surprises. Followers of the bands are additionally questioning which friends may be a part of the residing members of Dangerous Firm and Soundgarden on stage.
Among the many huge questions this yr are whether or not Outkast and the White Stripes will reunite to carry out, or not less than to just accept their honor. Artists — or friends celebrating them — usually play a set a of their important songs as a part of their induction.
Learn how to watch the Rock Corridor induction present
This yr’s ceremony returns to the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles within the metropolis’s three-year rotation with New York and Cleveland, the house of the corridor itself.
Followers who’ve purchased tickets will see it dwell, and so can followers at house in a livestream on Disney+, a brand new improvement since 2023. The present begins at 8 p.m. Jap, 5 p.m. Pacific.
It will likely be out there to stream on Hulu beginning Sunday. And it’ll get its conventional edited telecast on ABC on Jan. 1.
Who shall be inducted
This is a have a look at the total class of 2025 and some of their defining songs.
Outkast: American rap duo that started within the Nineteen Nineties. Key songs: “Hey Ya,” “Ms. Jackson” and “Roses”
Salt-N-Pepa: American rap group fashioned within the Nineteen Eighties. Key songs: “Push It,” “Let’s Talk About Sex” and “Shoop”
Dangerous Firm: English rock band fashioned within the Nineteen Seventies. Key songs: “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” “Can’t Get Enough,” “Bad Company”
Chubby Checker: American singer who started releasing data within the Fifties. Key songs: “The Twist,” “Limbo Rock,” “Let’s Twist Again”
Joe Cocker: English singer who started releasing data within the Sixties and died in 2014. Key songs: “You Are So Beautiful,” “Up Where We Belong,” “With a Little Help From My Friends”
Cyndi Lauper: American singer and songwriter whose solo profession started within the early Nineteen Eighties. Key songs: “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,” “Time After Time,” “True Colors”
Soundgarden: American rock band fashioned in 1984. Key songs: “Black Hole Sun,” “Fell on Black Days,” and “Outshined.”
Warren Zevon, American singer-songwriter who started releasing solo data within the early Nineteen Seventies and died in 2003. Key songs: “Lawyers, Guns and Money,” “Werewolves of London,” “Keep Me in Your Heart”
Thom Bell, American music producer and songwriter beginning within the 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.”
The White Stripes: American rock band that started within the Nineteen Nineties. Key songs: “Seven Nation Army,” “We’re Going to Be Friends,” “Doorbell.”
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”
Nicky Hopkins, English session musician who performed keyboards on dozens of hits beginning within the Sixties and died in 1994. Key songs: the Beatles’ “Revolution,” the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil,” Cocker’s “You Are So Beautiful”
Lenny Waronker. American music producer and government beginning within the Nineteen 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”
