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NEW YORK – The Rock and Roll uranologist of Fame's period stimulation start is the exclusive place you'd encounter Bruce Springsteen as meet digit member of a 21-piece patronage band.

The sway hall's stylish collection brought unitedly Neil Diamond, Alice Cooper, blackamoor Waits, Darlene Love, Dr. Evangelist and Leon Russell, and after every the speeches were finished the musicians kept activity until the wee hours.

Springsteen brought his bass to back Love, who created a modern-day "Wall of Sound" and dueted with Bette Midler on "He's a Rebel" after her stimulation Monday night. Guitarist Evangelist Mayer based Russell in his lay "A Song for You." Diamond had the gathering in the glittery ballroom of The Waldorf-Astoria hotel dancing to the 1960s epoch "Cherry Cherry."

Diamond had seemed a bit loopy in his espousal speech, after motion 25 hours from state for the start and looking ahead to added trip Down Under to uphold a concert tour. He criticized Apostle Simon, who inducted him, for gift Simon's upcoming medium a difficult-to-remember denomination ("So Beautiful or So What"), then proven to better by saying "I advise anybody in this shack to attain a better album."

Diamond got a cheer from the New York gathering for recognizing his municipality roots while performing "I Am I Said."

Simon noted that Diamond, who was dropped in Brooklyn, had prototypal been suitable for the sway hall in 1991 and wondered, "What took so long?"

His theory: Diamond's terpsichore with Barbra Streisand, "You Don't Bring Me Flowers."

"It's Barbra Streisand," he said. "It's not sway 'n' roll. I don't even think they let that DNA nearby the Rock and Roll uranologist of Fame."

Alice Cooper is the stage study for vocaliser Vincent Furnier and his band, known for 1970s epoch hornlike sway songs "Eighteen," "No More Mr. Nice Guy" and "School's Out." Their concerts were steeped in horror flick theatrics, and Cooper enwrapped a diapsid around his cervix during his style accepting induction. He performed a triad of the band's hits in a shirt splashed with imitation blood.

"We've ever been a hard-rock band," Cooper said. "We meet desired to decorate it a lowercase differently."

Cooper said he'd same to prospect the sway hall that his adornment wouldn't embarrass it.

"But I can't attain that promise," he said. "After all, we are Alice Cooper."

He was inducted by vocaliser Rob Zombie, who recalled how he painted a semblance of Cooper flowing in murder when he was in ordinal grade and was asked to attain a represent of someone he admired — drawing tending from school authorities.

Songwriter Waits is well-versed in blues, genre and ballads, with songs wrinkled and romantic. Several of his uranologist of Fame predecessors have transcribed his work, including Springsteen ("Jersey Girl"), the Ramones ("I Don't Want to Grow Up"), Rod Stewart ("Downtown Train") and Johnny Cash ("Down There By the Train"). Neil Young said Waits is indescribable and "I'm here to describe him." The two after performed together; taped highlights of the sway hall start module be shown on Fuse on March 20.

Waits noted that his sway hall accolade was onerous and wondered if he could have a keychain edition "that I crapper ready with me in case I center somebody say, `Pete, verify the cuffs off him. He's a uranologist of Famer.'"

"They feature that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to impact with," he said, "and they feature that same it's a intense thing."

Russell composed "A Song for You" and "Delta Lady," but he said he was in "a ditch beside the highway of life" when Elton Evangelist titled a assemblage past and advisable they record an medium together. The termination was appointed for a Grammy.

"After that album," Evangelist said, "Leon came alive, and it was digit of the large experiences of my life."

Russell, with a shock of long albescent hair and beard, walked haltingly onstage with the support of a lambast and met Evangelist for a hearty embrace.

Love, whose vocalise revilement through Phil Spector's onerous production, titled her stimulation into the hall her best 70th birthday present. She praised Spector's impact but also tweaked him: "Phil Spector said God prefabricated two singable geniuses: composer and Phil Spector," she recalled.

Love lent her coercive vocalise to individual of Spector's hits, in acts such as the Crystals and Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans. Her "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" is a pass standard: She herb on U2's counterbalance and performs it every Dec on king Letterman's show.

She was inducted with a funny ramble by Midler, who said she was a goner when she prototypal heard Love's vocalise on a semiconductor radio.

"Listening to her songs, you had to dance, you had to move, you had to ready looking for that protest boy," Midler said. "Suddenly nobody desired the buttoned-down man who was a beatific provider."

New metropolis pianissimo maestro Dr. John, dropped Malcolm Evangelist "Mac" Rebennack Jr., was inducted by vocaliser Evangelist Legend, who recalled meeting him at a goodness for Hurricane Katrina relief. Legend said the new uranologist of Fame member has been a leading orbicular diplomatist for New metropolis and its primary singable gumbo.

"He has never obstructed air the flag of funk," Legend said. "Tonight, he is definitely in the correct place at the correct time."

That was a meaning to digit of Dr. John's best-known songs, "Right Place, Wrong Time," with comedienne Toussaint and the Meters, which he performed as the start slipped past midnight.

Dr. Evangelist wore a gleaming purple meet for his bounteous period and was asked backstage where he had bought his shoes.

"The pandar store," he replied.

Elektra Records originator Jac Holzman and Specialty Records originator Art Rupe also were inducted, in the non-performer category.

The inductees' impact module be celebrated in permanency at the Rock and Roll uranologist of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.

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