Cyndi Lauper, Outkast, Soundgarden, and the White Stripes will all be inducted into the the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame as a part of its class of 2025. Rounding out the slate of this 12 months’s performer inductees are Unhealthy Firm, Chubby Checker, and Joe Cocker. The announcement aired on dwell TV throughout American Idol, the place host Ryan Seacrest revealed the inductees throughout a Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame-themed episode.
Salt-N-Pepa and Warren Zevon are the recipients of this 12 months’s Musical Affect Award, which celebrates artists whose music immediately had an impression on the evolution of rock and roll or impressed a few of the style’s main artists. In the meantime, the Musical Excellence Award will go to legendary Philly Soul producer Thom Bell; session musician Carole Kaye, whose contributions embody the Seaside Boys’ “Good Vibrations” and Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”; and studio keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, recognized for his work with the Rolling Stones, the Who, and different British Invasion acts. DreamWorks Data co-founder Lenny Waronker, who famously coaxed Elliott Smith into signing a serious label deal, will obtain the Ahmet Ertegun Award.
The 2025 Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction ceremony will broadcast dwell from Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater on November 8 through Disney+, and be obtainable to stream on Hulu the following day. It’s additionally set to re-air on ABC at a later date.
Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Unhealthy Firm, and Outkast have all made the Rock Corridor on their first nominations. Cyndi Lauper, Soungarden, and White Stripes had been all nominated in 2023—with Soundgarden additionally eligible for induction in 2020—however had been in the end handed over among the many 2024 nominations.
There’s fairly a couple of artists who had been nominated for 2025 induction however didn’t make the ultimate reduce: Oasis, Mariah Carey, Pleasure Division/New Order, Phish, Billy Idol, the Black Crowes, and Maná. By comparability, the Rock Corridor class of 2024 is comprised of Cher, A Tribe Known as Quest, Dave Matthews Band, Mary J. Blige, Ozzy Osbourne, Kool & the Gang, Peter Frampton, and Foreigner, making for another performer inductee than this 12 months.
