Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Showbiz and Celebrity Breaking News

HBO has announced that the 2020 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony has been rescheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2020 ceremony has been rescheduled for Saturday, Nov. 7, with the live broadcast from the Public Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio kicking off at 8:00 p.m. ET on HBO. This marks the first time the ceremony will be broadcast live on the network.

Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode will have to wait to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after organisers pulled their spring celebration in light of the coronavirus crisis.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s annual induction ceremony, scheduled to take place on May 2 at Cleveland’s Public Hall, has been postponed due to coronavirus concerns, according to Rolling Stone.

Is it wrong to invoke a John Sebastian solo tune — “Welcome Back” — to welcome back the Lovin’ Spoonful this weekend, at a Los Angeles show, for the first time in decades? It is wrong, in Sebastian’s mind, to think of it as a reunion show, with one of the key members long since deceased, and a rotation of 40 other singers and musicians on stage at Saturday night’s Spoonful tribute show at the Alex Theatre in Glendale.

Somewhere in downtown Cleveland, along the shore of Lake Erie, Greg Harris is busy pondering all that led up to the naming of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2020… and the inevitable controversies that followed. Inevitably, the inclusion of singer Whitney Houston and rapper the Notorious B.I.G.

Whitney Houston is set to be honored for her storied career.

Depeche Mode, the Doobie Brothers, Whitney Houston, Nine Inch Nails, The Notorious B.I.G. and T.Rex are the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s 2020 inductees, the organization announced this morning. Receiving the Ahmet Ertegun Award, which is essentially for non-performing professionals, are longtime Bruce Springsteen manager and former music critic Jon Landau and veteran Eagles manager and multifaceted executive Irving Azoff.

Every year when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces the candidates for its next induction class, cheers and shudders threaten to drown out the sound of music. The Class of 2019 was the strongest one in ages (Stevie Nicks! Roxy Music! Radiohead! Janet Jackson! Def Leppard! The Cure!) — and it still didn’t satisfy everyone. When the 2020 class is announced on January 15, it likely will be divisive enough to keep us debating until induction night next May 2.