Sat 11/19 @ 8PM
The bad news for Cleveland rock n’ rollers was that the 37th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on November 5 was held in Los Angeles this year. The good news was that the rumors of the ceremony being held in Cleveland every third year instead of every other year turned out to be maybe false. (All other halls of fame host their inductions every year, even if they’re in a off-the-beaten-track places like Cooperstown, NY.)
But all rock music fans have the opportunity to see what happened when the ceremony airs on HBO Saturday November 19 @ 8pm, and is available to stream with a radio simulcast on SiriusXM’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Radio channel 310 and Volume in the SXM App.
This year’s inductees included Pat Benatar and her husband, guitarist Neil Giradlo from Parma; Eurythmics, Lionel Richie, Duran Duran, Dolly Parton, Eminem and Cary Simon. Heavy metallers Judas Priest and the production team of Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis were oddly given “musical excellence” awards instead of being inducted as artists, while Harry Belafonte and Elizabeth Cotton were cited as early influences, and attorney Allen Grubman, producer Jimmy Iovine and record executive Sylvia Robinson won the Ahmet Ertegun Award as influential non-musical industry people.
The new exhibit on this year’s inductees is viewable now at the Rock Hall and merch honoring the class is available at their store.