Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame Inducts Eminem, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie and Carly Simon

Large night time in Cleveland Saturday, when musical legends have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame.

How’s this for a formidable record … Dolly Parton, Eminem, Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Duran Duran, Eurythmics, Lionel Richie and Carly Simon.

It was virtually overload taking all of it in … Sheryl Crow inducted Pat Benatar and hubby/collaborator Neil Giraldo. Sheryl stated Pat “rocked as arduous as any man however nonetheless maintained her identification as a lady.”

However wait, there’s extra. Janet Jackson bestowed the Musical Excellence Award to Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.

Bruce Springsteen introduced Jimmy Iovine with the Rock Corridor’s Ahmet Ertegun Award. Bruce additionally paid tribute to Jerry Lee Lewis, singing “Nice Balls of Hearth” and “Excessive College Hop” with John Mellencamp.

And Lenny Kravitz did the honors for the enduringly superior Lionel Richie! LK stated Lionel’s music was “the soundtrack of my life, your life and everybody’s life.” Then he threw in some cornball humor … naming all the oldsters who adopted Lionel “would take, properly, all night time lengthy.”

Dr. Dre inducted his longtime pal and musical accomplice, Eminem. Dre stated he was thunderstruck when he discovered Em was a white man … “That utterly f***ed me up!”

Eminem sang “My Identify Is,” “Without end,” “Not Afraid” … with assists from Steven Tyler and Ed Sheeran.

Eminem was humble, saying, “I’m not alleged to be right here tonight,” following his set. “One, I’m a rapper; two, I virtually died from an overdose; and three, I actually needed to battle my method by means of … I’m a highschool dropout with a hip hop training.”

As for Dolly, Pink did the honors, after which Dolly proclaimed … “I am a rock star now!” She added, “I nonetheless acquired rock and roll down in my nation soul.”

Parton closed the present together with her most iconic track, “Jolene,” as others joined in … others, as in Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo, Simon Le Bon, Rob Halford and the Eurythmics.