Like: “She plays the guitar with long, talon-like fingernails and never misses a note.” And: “Who here has a hologram of themselves at their very own amusement park?” (Pink subsequently added that she really would like to go more in-depth on the Dolly hologram, but would refrain.) In her introductory speech, Pink praised Parton by saying, “There are few finer songwriters, male or female, that have ever lived… She’s one of the greatest storytellers of her time – of any time.” The speech cited her as a writer skilled in evoking “what it’s like to be human and what it’s like to be a woman in America,” with specific themes and songs called out, like “poverty, shame, the cruelty of bullying and love for her mama” in “Coat of Many Colors,” suicide in “The Bridge,” trauma over a stillborn child in “Down From Dover,” and of course, writing the “number one most selling song of a female for all time, ‘I Will Always Love You.’ Apparently she wasn’t exhausted after that sheer genius, because on the same night, she wrote ‘Jolene.’ Show-off!” Pink talked about her philanthropy in giving 150 million books to children, among other good works, but seemed particularly obsessed with other aspects of Parton’s persona. Roger Taylor, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Dolly Parton and Simon Le Bon attend the 37th Annual Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Microsoft Theater on Novemin Los Angeles, California.
“I figured if I’m gonna be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I’m gonna have to earn it,” she explained, before busting out a new song with freshly minted lyrics that contrasted her rural Tennessee upbringing with the early days of rock: “I grew up loving Elvis and wild man Jerry Lee / Chuck Berry and Little Richard, they all cast a spell on me / Carl Perkins in those blue suede shoes had no place on the farm / But they was better than those I was wearing around the barn.”
“And you thought I couldn’t rock!” she exclaimed. In purely musical terms, the highlight of the tribute segment was also its simplest - a sublime duet between Carlile and Pink of one of Parton’s signature storytelling ballads, “Coat of Many Colors.” The energy ramped up a bit from there as Crow and the Zac Brown Band (which provided backing for the entire sequence) teamed up for “9 to 5.”Īs the clock wound down on that cover, Parton got howls of appreciation as she reappeared on the stage with an electric guitar in skintight black that was clearly meant to signify: Dolly Parton, Once Reluctant and Now Unabashedly Enthusiastic Rock Chick. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) Sheryl Crow, Brandi Carlile, Dolly Parton, Olivia Rodrigo and P!nk attend the 37th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at Microsoft Theater on Novemin Los Angeles, California. John Mellencamp Implores Artists to Speak Out Against Antisemitism at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: 'Silence Is Complicity'ĭuran Duran's Andy Taylor Unable to Attend Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Due to Health Setback If she showed up to accept, that is, but after some initial uncertainty about her willingness earlier in the year, there was no doubt that she would not only appear but be the belle of the country-rock ball.Īctually, the final moments of the five-and-a-half-hour show were devoted to a duet between Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp of Jerry Lee Lewis’ “Great Balls of Fire.” But that was more like a quick epilogue after a long segment devoted to Parton that included renditions by the superstar and/or other inductees and guests of “Jolene,” “9 to 5,” “Coat of Many Colors” and a brand new song she wrote especially for the occasion called “Rockin’.” Although other inductees on the bill noted that they had to condense their careers into an eight-and-a-half-minute performance time slot, that rule was hardly being strictly enforced for what amounted to a Dolly Fest before and after the clock struck 12.Įminem Electrifies, Olivia Rodrigo Covers Carly Simon, Antisemitism Has No Place, and More Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Best Moments And so, as much as hardcore fans of Duran Duran or Judas Priest might have flooded into L.A.’s Microsoft Theatre in ordinate numbers for Saturday night’s ceremony honoring the hall’s class of 2022, it was always a foregone conclusion that the show’s all-star climax was going to revolve around the most culturally iconic of them all, Dolly Parton. Although for official purposes all Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees are created equal, some are bound to loom larger than others when the rubber hits the road.
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