Dua Lipa And Cher Perform ‘Believe’ At Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Ceremony: Watch
Dua Lipa and Cher performed the pop icon’s massive hit Believe at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony, watch below.
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Cher, who also performed her hit If I Could Turn Back Time, was being inducted into the hall. She also gave a speech where she joked about how long it had taken her to be recognised by the institution.
“It was easier getting divorced from two men than it was getting into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,” she said. “I want to thank my guardian David Geffen, because he wrote a letter and sent it to the directors, and now, ha ha, here I am!”
She went on to discuss Believe, claiming that with the song, “I changed the sound of music forever, and it was an accident. My producer and I were having a fight, with my producer saying, ‘Cher, do it better,’” she recalled. “I said, ‘Dude, if you want it better, get a different singer.’ He called me later and said, ‘Cher, I’ve been playing around with the pitch machine, and I think I’ve got something.’ I went back and listened to it, and when it was over, we both jumped up and high-fived each other. And then the head of my record company said ‘we can’t do that because no one will know it was you.’ And I said, ‘Yes, that’s the deal! That’s the great part!’”
Cher also gave advice to the assembled crowd, “The one thing I have never done, is I never give up. And I am talking to the women, okay — you guys are on your own,” she offered with a smirk. “We have been down and out, but we keep striving, and we keep going and we are somebody. We are special, as my mother would say.”
Cher was just one of the musicians honoured at Saturday night’s event — fellow inductees included Mary J. Blige, Ozzy Osbourne, Kool & the Gang, A Tribe Called Quest, Dave Matthews Band, Foreigner and Peter Frampton.