Madonna will not perform at tonight’s Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony–airing at 8:30 on VH1 Classic–making her the first living inductee who’ll attend the ceremony, but not hop on stage to bust out a song or two on the night she’s being honored. (Ah, that’ll teach me to fall victim to Roger Friedman’s anti-Jann Wenner propaganda. Man do I hate Mondays!) Which only makes the possibility of a Ciccone Youth torch-passing that much more likely. [Fox 411]
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I would die of joy if Sonic Youth and Madonna collaborated on “Into the Groovey”. The first mash-up ever, I think. I wore that damn tape out.
I’d just like to point out that the headline for that Friedman Madonna piece is “Mama Won’t Screech.”
Opens mouth, inserts gun, pulls trigger.
I could be wrong but I thought Bowie blew off the ceremony and everything else when we was inducted. Or do you mean first in attendance not to otherwise perform?
Oh, wait… Sex Pistols didn’t perform either.
@extracrispy: Notwithstanding Maura’s correction above, and despite the fact that I very very very much want Friedman to be wrong, I’m afraid he might be right: neither Bowie nor the Pistols showed up. Hasn’t every act that’s ever shown up at the ceremony to receive their award also performed at least a little?
Plus, I have to imagine the people producing the show, including VH1, will all but beg Madge to warble a tune or two. I mean, there goes the show’s ratings if they can’t get the biggest inductee to perform.