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Cher wouldn’t want to be in Rock & Roll Hall of Fame now: “They can just you know what themselves”
With her latest smash hit DJ Play the Christmas Song, Cher has achieved a number one hit in seven consecutive decades. It makes it all the more glaring – and ridiculous – that this music icon has not been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame – the same institution that inducted Dolly Parton who had never recorded a rock song until after her induction.
I’ve ranted about this each year when they unveil the latest inductees. It reduces the credibility of the whole enterprise quite frankly since only Cher and The Rolling Stones have the seven decade number one achievement. If anyone thinks Cher isn’t rock and roll enough (like Dolly?), listen to Heart of Stone, Just Like Jesse James, I Found Someone, We All Sleep Alone, If I Could Turn Back Time, All or Nothing just to name a few. Then there’s Believe.
Anyway, Cher told Kelly Clarkson on her talk show today she wouldn’t participate now even if they wanted to honor her.
“You know what, I wouldn’t be in it now if they gave me a million dollars,” Cher says in the interview above. “I’m never gonna change my mind. “They can just you know what themselves.”
Cher added: “I changed music forever with Believe.”
Cher can console herself with her Grammy, Emmy, Oscar and Kennedy Center Honor and know that at 77, she’s as popular and relevant as ever.
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Tommy Marx says:
I mentioned this to a friend of mine who doesn’t really follow entertainment news at all, and her response – like yours – was disbelief that Dolly Parton would be inducted and Cher has not been. Dolly is an icon, but it’s bizarre (to say the least) that Dolly’s a member and Cher is not.
There have been so many artists that – deserving as they might be – should not have been inducted before Cher, but the fact that Sheryl Crow was honored before Cher just blows my f-ing mind.