Kate Bush Confirms 2023 Rock Corridor Induction Ceremony Absence in New Assertion

In a newly launched assertion, Kate Bush has confirmed that she is not going to attend the 2023 Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction ceremony tonight in Brooklyn, New York. “I’m afraid I gained’t have the ability to attend the ceremony tonight, however for me the true honour is realizing that you just felt I deserved it,” she wrote. “The RRHOF has welcomed me into essentially 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. “After 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 write down songs that might transfer individuals in the way in which his work moved me,” Bush wrote. “That little lady in South East London may 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 Towards the Machine, the Spinners, and the late George Michael. After her induction was introduced, she shared in an announcement, “I’ve to confess I’m utterly 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 reside on Disney+ beginning at 8 p.m. Japanese.

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Kate Bush:

Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame

I’m utterly blown away by this big honour – an award that sits within the large beating coronary heart of the American music trade.

Thanks a lot to everybody who voted for me. I by no means imagined I’d be given this excellent accolade.

Final yr was such a surprisingly profitable time for my monitor Working Up That Hill and I’m certain that loads of you who’ve voted me in to the RRHOF additionally drove that monitor up the charts. Thanks!

I’m afraid I gained’t have the ability to attend the ceremony tonight, however for me the true honour is realizing that you just felt I deserved it.

The RRHOF has welcomed me into essentially the most extraordinary rostrum of overwhelming expertise.

After 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 write down songs that might transfer individuals in the way in which his work moved me.

That little lady in South East London may 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!

Music is on the core of who I’m and, like all musicians, being on the journey of attempting to create one thing musically fascinating is rife with emotions of doubt and insecurity.

I’m solely 5 foot three, however at present I really feel a little bit taller.

Kate