Chubby Checker has determined in opposition to attending the 2025 Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame induction ceremony, the place he’ll be enshrined as a part of a category that additionally consists of The White Stripes, Soundgarden, OutKast, and Cyndi Lauper. As a substitute, the 85-year-old musician will spend the evening of the ceremony “doing what I really like doing essentially the most”: out on the street, taking part in a gig.
As Checker defined in a latest interview with Future Rock Legends, he declined the invitation to attend his Rock Corridor induction after apparently being knowledgeable he wouldn’t be allowed to carry out dwell through the ceremony.
“As you come to be an older individual, you run into issues that you simply didn’t run into when you weren’t an older individual. So I instructed my supervisor, I says, ‘Be certain after we go to the Rock & Roll Corridor Of Fame, the induction, that I’m doing what I really like doing essentially the most: being in entrance of an viewers. A dwell viewers, not a tv viewers… So she did, she received me a present.”
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A part of Test’s pondering, as he defined, was to dispute the notion that some individuals could have that, “He’s an outdated man. He’s most likely retired. He’s not doing something. He’s coming to the Corridor of fame to get his little award and return dwelling.”
“No, let’s being doing a present, to indicate that I’m alive and nicely,” he added.
The Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame’s 2025 induction ceremony is about for November eighth on the on the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.