LOS ANGELES, California - The 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony held at the Peacock Theater on Saturday evening was a double celebration. The ceremony honored the latest batch of inductees, but also allowed the Rock Hall to commemorate four decades of proving the concept.

The ceremony has grown from a relatively closed party of famous folk into an elongated, full-work-shift-long and often awkward-for-the-audience television show taping that was edited and aired on HBO weeks later, to today’s slickly produced live TV show, courtesy of the Mouse House. The 40th Anniversary ceremony was a relatively svelte four and a half hours of well-played and performed music and good vibes.

Compared to 2024’s sold-out and rocking Rocket Arena, the 7,100-seat Peacock felt almost intimate.

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