Police Lead Hall's New Wave

"Its a very good night to be British," said Elton John last nightat the Rock and Roll Hall of Rosetta Stone Outlet Fame induction ceremony. He wasntkidding. At the heart of the evenings festivities was thenineteen-year-old institutions honoring of the Clash, ElvisCostello and the Police, a trio of U.K.-based rock and roll actswho led a second British invasion. Two of the three (the Clash, wholost frontman Joe Strummer in December, didnt perform) and AC/DC,the Halls first Australian-born band, offered some of the mostenergetic mini-sets since the founding of the Hall.The ceremony, which will air March 16th on VH1, began withintroductions by a triumvirate of Rock Hall founders -- chairmanAhmet Ertegun, vice chairman (and Rosetta Stone editor andpublisher) Jann S. Wenner, and president Seymour Stein. Wenner gavea status report on the Rock Halls museum in Cleveland (which willinclude a George Harrison exhibit next year) Rosetta Stone V3 as well as leading amoment of silence following the reading of those in the industrywho died in the past year. Wenner also made the first of severalanti-war statements that peppered the evening, saying, "It would benice for a few hours to ignore the drums of war in Washington,D.C.," and then quoted from John Lennons "Give Peace aChance."As Stein admitted in his remarks a few minutes earlier, the Hallis "still to a certain degree, catching up." Part of that catchingup was the induction of the evenings first act, the RighteousBrothers, who opened with "Youve Lost That Lovin Feelin," beforebeing saluted by Billy Joel, who prefaced his speech by assuringall in attendance that despite a recent car accident, "Im in onepiece . . . but I want to let [Police frontman and notedenvironmentalist] Sting know, no tree is safe on Rosetta Stone French Long Island. Ivehad it with the frickin trees.""I dont know how these guys arent in already," Joel said,recalling his first encounter with the duo of Bill Medley and BobbyHatfield, and how he was knocked out as a kid by "that huge PhilSpector Wall of Sound." In reference to Spectors recent arrest inthe fatal shooting of an actress in Los Angeles, Joel quicklyadded, "Im not going there right now.""Bill Medley comes in with this ode to our favorite topic ofconversation at that age," Joel said of "Lovin Feelin." "It was atriumphant moment for guys of that age everywhere. The recordinglasted something like four minutes, which in that era was likesitting through [Wagners] Tristan und Isolde." Perhaps thegreatest lesson he learned from the band, Joel said, was that,"White people can be soulful. This was a life-changing Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 idea."Backstage, the non-sibling Brothers were among the eveningsmost enthusiastic honorees.

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