LOS ANGELES, Nov 15 — The rhapsodic hip-hop transformers Wu-Tang Clan and punk rocker Billy Idol were among the music luminaries inducted Saturday into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a star-studded concert gala.
The versatile Phil Collins, post-punk and electronic dance music renegades Joy Division/New Order and the velvet-voiced late Luther Vandross also joined the rock pantheon at the ceremony held in Los Angeles’s Peacock Theater.
But several of the 2026 class of artists — Oasis, Sade and Iron Maiden — skipped the night celebrating their honor, one of the music industry’s most prestigious.
Staten Island’s own Wu-Tang Clan — the ragtag group of New Yorkers who paired raw production with streetwise rhymes and martial arts influences — brought the ruckus, performing their own hits including C.R.E.A.M and Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing ta F’ Wit.
