John Mellencamp likely will spend more time onstage during tonight’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony than fellow inductees Madonna, Leonard Cohen, the Dave Clark Five and the Ventures.
Mellencamp and instrumental rock band the Ventures are the only inductees scheduled to play music at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Iggy & the Stooges will perform songs popularized by Madonna, and Damien Rice will stand in for Cohen.