Cher, Mary J. Blige, Ozzy Osbourne among Rock Hall of Fame inductees

NEW YORK — 

Cher, Mary J. Blige and Ozzy Osbourne were among this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, an elite radical formally introduced into the euphony pantheon Saturday astatine a star-studded performance gala.

Kool & the Gang, Dave Matthews Band, Foreigner, A Tribe Called Quest, and Peter Frampton circular retired the 2024 people of honorees, artists honored astatine the ceremonial held successful Cleveland, Ohio, location of the prestigious hall.

Big Mama Thornton, Alexis Korner and John Mayall received peculiar honors for "musical influence," arsenic Jimmy Buffett, MC5, Dionne Warwick and Norman Whitfield received awards for "musical excellence."

Suzanne de Passe, a trailblazer for women executives successful the euphony business, who was large successful Motown, won the night's grant for nonperforming manufacture professionals.

Dua Lipa kicked disconnected the evening with a show of Believe, with Cher joining the popular prima onstage to decorativeness her 1998 smash hit, which was credited arsenic the archetypal opus to usage auto-tune exertion arsenic an instrument.

"I changed the dependable of euphony forever," she said successful her acceptance speech, little than a twelvemonth aft railing against the hallway for not having yet added her to the ballot.

"It was easier getting divorced from 2 men than it was getting successful the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame," she quipped Saturday night.

Performers included Kelly Clarkson, Sammy Hagar, Slash and Demi Lovato, who each appeared for Foreigner.

A radical of artists including Queen Latifah, De La Soul and Busta Rhymes besides performed with the surviving members of the eclectic, pioneering hep hop radical A Tribe Called Quest -- Q-Tip, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Jarobi White.