Ringo Starr Inducted, Green Day Shine at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
"It's like my record collection is actually sitting in this room," Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong said midway through his acceptance speech at the 30th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. "The fact that I heard Patti Smith's Horses as a kid, and now there you are standing there."
Armstrong paused for a split second to take in the moment, looking out across the rows of tables that included Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Joan Jett, Stevie Wonder, Peter Wolf, Steve Van Zandt, Bill Withers, Jerry Lee Lewis and many other of his favorite artists. "I love rock & roll music," he said. "I have from the first moment I opened my eyes and took my first breath."
That was a common sentiment throughout the five-and-a-half hour ceremony at Cleveland's Public Hall Saturday night, perhaps the only event that could find Miley Cyrus singing into the same mic as Green Day's Mike Dirnt on a Beatles song while Bill Withers, McCartney, Starr, Beck, Karen O, Wonder and Dave Grohl joyously played alongside them. "A lot of different types of music are in [the Hall of Fame]," Withers said. "Miles Davis has no resemblance whatsoever to Jerry Lee Lewis. But each type of music has its own constituents and there's a commonality."
By: Andy Greene
Source: Rolling Stone
