In the optimistic early days of the pandemic, when many believed that our government would leap into coordinated action to get the spread under control by summer, many spring events, including concert tours, were pushed back to late summer and fall. One by one, those have all been falling off the schedule, and now the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced that its live induction ceremony at Cleveland Public Auditorium, re-scheduled from May 2 to November 7, will not take place live.
Instead it will air a special on HBO honoring this year’s class of inductees: Depeche Mode, the Doobie Brothers, Whitney Houston, Nine Inch Nails, the Notorious B.I.G., T. Rex, and artist managers Jon Landau and Irving Azoff. The special will air on the date the live event was re-scheduled for, November 7. The exhibit at the Rock Hall devoted to this year’s class will open on August 14.
The 2021 inductions will move to the fall and will take place in Cleveland.