In a newly launched assertion, Kate Bush has confirmed that she won’t attend the 2023 Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction ceremony tonight in Brooklyn, New York. “I’m afraid I received’t have the ability to attend the ceremony tonight, however for me the true honour is realizing that you simply felt I deserved it,” she wrote. “The RRHOF has welcomed me into probably the most extraordinary rostrum of overwhelming expertise.”
Bush continued by congratulating fellow inductee and famed Elton John songwriter Bernie Taupin, who’s acknowledged within the Musical Excellence class. “Once I was rising up my hero was Elton John. I poured over his music, longed to have the ability to play piano like him and longed to jot down songs that would transfer folks in the way in which his work moved me,” Bush wrote. “That little lady in South East London might by no means have dreamed she’d be sharing the occasion tonight with Bernie Taupin, Elton’s writing accomplice, an unimaginable lyricist who impressed me to maintain writing songs – to maintain attempting. Congratulations Bernie! Congratulations to everybody who’s being inducted tonight!”
Kate Bush is being inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame as a performer, as are Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, Willie Nelson, Rage In opposition to the Machine, the Spinners, and the late George Michael. After her induction was introduced, she shared in a press release, “I’ve to confess I’m fully shocked on the information of being inducted into the Corridor of Fame! It’s one thing I simply by no means thought would occur.”
The 2023 Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction ceremony takes place tonight at Brooklyn’s Barclays Heart. The occasion—that includes visitor appearances from Olivia Rodrigo, Chris Stapleton, Dave Matthews, Elton John, H.E.R., LL Cool J, and others—streams stay on Disney+ beginning at 8 p.m. Japanese.
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