Nicks and Jackson are among the seven acts honoured this year
Harry Styles presents Stevie Nicks onstage at the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony in Brooklyn on 29 March, 2019 in New York City. ( (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images For The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) )
Stevie Nicks, Janet Jackson and The Cure lead this year’s class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, which includes seven acts in total.
All were honoured during a five-hour ceremony in Brooklyn’s Barclays Centre on Friday. Radiohead, Def Leppard, Roxy Music and The Zombies are also among the seven singers and bands getting recognised this year for having contributed “over 25 years of musical excellence”.
Nicks, who was previously inducted into the hall of fame along with the rest of Fleetwood Mac, became the first woman to receive the distinction twice. She and Jackson called for other women to join them in music immortality, as they were honoured at the same time as five all-male British bands.
Friday’s event was being filmed to air on 27 April on HBO.
Nicks was the night’s first induction. She is already part of the hall as a member of Fleetwood Mac, but only the first woman to join 22 men — including all four Beatles members — to have been honoured twice by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the different stages of their career.
Nicks offered women a blueprint for success, telling them her trepidation in first recording a solo album while a member of Fleetwood Mac and encouraging others to match her feat.
“I know there is somebody out there who will be able to do it,” she said, promising to talk often of how she built her solo career. “What I am doing is opening up the door for other women.”
During her four-song set, she brought onstage a cape she bought in 1983 to prove to her “very frugal” late mother that it was still in good shape, and worth its $3,000 price tag. Don Henley joined her to sing “Leather and Lace”, while Harry Styles filled in for the late Tom Petty on “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around”.
