HIStory at the Waldorf Astoria

The Sixteenth Annual Induction Ceremony for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees will take place on March 19th at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.

The Fifteenth Annual Induction Ceremony was held on Monday March 6th 2000 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City and VH1 USA will be showing exclusively an edited version of the 2000 ceremony on March 11th at 8.30pm EST and will repeat the programme on March 12th at 6.30pm EST.

VH1 say the following on their website;

“… Michael Jackson, who by age five was the designated lead singer of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees the Jackson 5, and only a few years later launched a record breaking trend-setting solo career that included the world’s biggest selling album, ‘Thriller’, which spent 37 weeks at #1 and sold more than 25-times platinum in the U.S. alone. There is no question that for the generation who came of age in the ’80s, Michael epitomises what rock is about…”

Source: VH1.com & MJWN