The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame finally inducted their Class of 2020 when the virtual ceremony aired on HBO.
This year's class -- The Doobie Brothers, Depeche Mode, Whitney Houston, Nine Inch Nails, The Notorious B.I.G., T. Rex, and Ahmet Ertegun Award winners Irving Azoff and Jon Landau.
The class was announced way back on January 15th, and the ceremony was originally scheduled for May 2nd in Cleveland. But, it was called off and later scheduled as a virtual ceremony last weekend.
This year’s broadcast came in at two hours and seven minutes—making it the shortest ceremony in Rock Hall history.There were no performances and acceptance speeches were brief.
Joel Peresman, president and CEO of the Hall of Fame Foundation, told Vulture, "We looked at different ways to have live performances by the inductees or artists performing for the artists who are deceased. In the spring and summer, it really just became overwhelming to try to pull that off. There were so many events that were starting to happen with people doing performances on their iPhones and then they got a little bit more sophisticated. We thought that was kind of boring to try to go through the hoops of having artists performing with no audience, or doing it with just family or friends. It didn’t make any creative sense.”
[courtesy of Classic Hits Today]