What higher strategy to begin the 2024 Rock Hall ceremony than with one of the most important pop stars on the planet performing a canopy of one other of the most important pop stars on the planet’s largest hits? Dressed in a slinky, black costume, Dua Lipa introduced the viewers to their ft with a rendition of Cher’s “Believe.” By the time the bridge got here round, Cher herself emerged wearing a leather-based bustier and black chaps, serving to Dua end out the tune in fabulous style. For people who needed to see the 78-year-old icon ship a solo efficiency, Cher made positive to offer them an encore earlier than accepting her induction into the Rock Hall, performing a rousing rendition of “If I Could Turn Back Time” to a screaming crowd.

Known for her sharp wit, Cher didn’t spare anybody throughout her induction speech — together with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame itself. When remarking on her long-awaited induction into the Hall, Cher cracked that it felt tougher than it wanted to be. ““It was easier getting divorced from two men than it was getting into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,” she joked. “I want to thank David Geffen, because he wrote a letter and sent it to the directors, and now, ha ha, here I am!”

When two of Kool & the Gang’s unique members lastly reunited on the stage at Saturday’s ceremony, you would really feel the electrical energy. James J.T. Taylor and Robert “Kool” Bell made probably the most of their induction into the Hall, leaping into a completely thrilling medley of their biggest hits. Jumping on stage wearing a set of bedazzled shirts and collars, the band powered by “Hollywood Swinging,” “Get Down on It,” “Ladies Night,” and “Jungle Boogie,” earlier than closing out their stellar set with a banging rending of “Celebration.”

Throughout an intensive efficiency of some of her largest hits, legendary singer-songwriter Dionne Warwick introduced out none aside from Jennifer Hudson to help her on her basic monitor “I’ll Never Love This Way Again.” Riffing and belting forwards and backwards over the long-lasting monitor’s closing verses, the pair introduced the viewers to a standing ovation by the point they had been by.

We may have simply had Rick Wills, Lou Gramm and Al Greenwood onstage and that will have been a tremendous Foreigner efficiency. But as an alternative, alongside the appearing members of the the legendary rock group, we received a cavalcade of rock and pop superstars coming by to carry out some of their biggest hits. Chad Smith smashed the drums, Slash blared on the guitar, and a rotating roster of pop stars got here by to offer voice to the long-lasting songs. Demi Lovato joined to belt out the refrain of “Feels Like the First Time,” Sammy Hagar appeared for a raucous rendition of “Hot Blooded,” and Kelly Clarkson closed out the tribute with an exceptional model of “I Want to Know What Love Is.”

After Pearl Jam’s Michael McCready declared that the he belonged within the “pantheon of guitar players” alongside Clapton and Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, Peter Frampton triumphantly took to the stage to carry out some of his biggest hits, kicking issues off with “Baby (Something’s Happening).”

But the efficiency’s finest second got here when Keith Urban joined the legendary guitarist onstage for a guitar-sparring duet to “Do You Feel Like We Do.” Trading licks forwards and backwards (and even pulling out a chat field for the tune’s iconic breakdown), the pair made for one of the perfect rock performances of the night.

Dave Matthews served double obligation at Saturday’s ceremony, attending as each an inductee and an artist paying tribute to 1 of the greats: Jimmy Buffett. Taking to the stage armed along with his acoustic guitar, Matthews bid a tearful farewell to the long-lasting tropical rock singer. “I’m so happy to be here to honor Jimmy,” he stated, combating again tears. “He made everyone feel special; he made me feel very special. I wish he could be here, but it’s too late.”

Launching into “a song that he wrote about being too late,” Matthews gave a candy, somber rendition of Buffett’s tune “A Pirate Looks at Forty.” With a picture of rippling waves behind him, Matthews delivered on the promise of the efficiency, getting quite a lot of of the star-studded viewers members visibly teary-eyed.

In his opening remarks to introduce the groundbreaking hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, comic Dave Chappelle made himself clear when it got here to the group’s affect on music: “I know this is Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but this movement in hip-hop was the birth of so many great artists,” he stated, earlier than gesturing to the band. “And it started with these men sitting at this table.”

Throughout his passionate speech, Chappelle laid out the foundations and come-up of the band, highlighting their forming of the Native Tongues as a cultural touchstone for contemporary hip-hop. But he saved his most emotional remarks for final, when he thanked the band for all they’d carried out for him personally, particularly following the demise of founding member Phife Dawg. “Tribe, I want to thank you for your service. What you’ve done for our culture means the world to me, but what you did for me changed my life,” he stated. “You shared your platform with me and invited me to be on Saturday Night Live with you, and it brought me back to television after 12 years in the cold. And I will always be grateful for you.”

Even after Chappelle’s touching remarks and the band’s shifting speech, the enjoyable nonetheless wasn’t over for A Tribe Called Quest. A veritable who’s who of hip hop royalty arrived on the stage to have fun the hip-hop crew’s unimaginable affect. Kicking issues off, DJ Maseo of De La Soul and Queen Latifah — accompanied by The Roots — delivered a high-energy efficiency to “Can I Kick It?,” with Latifah taking up the bossed-up power of Q-Tip’s verses.

Immediately after, Black Thought and De La Soul’s Kelvin Mercer turned the warmth up with a tribute to “Check the Rhime,” buying and selling Q and Phife’s verses forwards and backwards, earlier than Common crashed their perfomance with one of his personal to “Bonita Applebum.” And in a fiery closing second, Busta Rhymes appeared onstage to assist the group ship a surprising rendition of the group’s iconic posse lower “Scenario,” bringing the entire crowd to their ft.

Introduced as an artist who “single-handedly created an entirely new genre of music” by Dr. Dre & Method Man, Mary J. Blige proved them proper all through her wonderful efficiency. Dripping in a diamond crusted bodysuit, Blige and a set of her backup dancers grooved throughout the stage to her hit “My Life,” earlier than being joined on stage by Ella Mai for a duet to her jam “Love No Limit.” But it was along with her closing tracks — “Be Happy” and “Family Affair” — that Mary J. Blige earned the reward of Method Man brazenly yelling “you killed that s–t” as she exited the stage.

After refusing to “bore you with a long, drawn-out f–king monologue,” Ozzy Osbourne watched as his legacy because the “greatest frontman in history” (as Jack Black put it) was tributed by a parade of some of the most important names in rock music. Starting with Maynard James Keenan and Wolfgang Van Halen performing his iconic hit “Crazy Train,” the efficiency noticed artists together with Jelly Roll and Robert Trujillo (“Mama, I’m Coming Home”), Billy Idol and Zakk Wylde (“No More Tears”) and others arrive to hail the induction of the Prince of Darkness himself.

After a hilarious introduction from Julia Roberts — which included the story of her misadventures Googling the band she was honoring — the Dave Matthews Band closed out the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony with one, superb jam. No particular company or shock moments; it was simply the band doing precisely what their followers love seeing them do. Running by a set of their most beloved tracks (“Ants Marching,” “Crash Into Me,” “So Much to Say” and “Too Much”), the band handled the stage on the Rocket Mortgage DisciplineHouse like yet one more stage for them to overcome. And conquer they did — at a number of factors, Matthews stopped singing to let the cheering crowd gleefully sing their songs proper again to them.

Even after Matthews gave his heartfelt speech thanking everybody concerned for the band’s induction, the band nonetheless wasn’t carried out. Dave declared that they’d play some “walking away music” — they usually provided a fired-up rendition of the Talking Heads’ “Burning Down the House” in honor of Stop Making Sense‘s fortieth anniversary.