Now that the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame class of 2025 has been introduced, a brand new query emerges: What reunions can followers anticipate on the induction ceremony?
The momentous event has beforehand been sufficient to coax musicians out of retirement or again collectively after years of estrangement. When Judas Priest carried out at their 2022 induction, they did so with former guitarist Ok.Ok. Downing, who left the band in 2011.
It is simply one in all a number of examples of mending fences within the identify of rock. The 2025 Rock Corridor class has the potential for just a few such reunions, with various levels of chance.
Learn on to see three big reunions that would occur on the 2025 Rock Corridor ceremony.
Soundgarden
Any Soundgarden “reunion” comes with the apparent caveat that it will not embody late frontman Chris Cornell, who died in 2017. However a partial reunion that includes guitarist Kim Thayil, drummer Matt Cameron and bassist Ben Shepherd is not out of the query.
The surviving members of Soundgarden reunited in 2019 for the “I Am the Freeway” tribute live performance to Cornell, and once more in December 2024 to play a profit present beneath the anagram Nudedragons, joined by Seattle singer Shaina Shepherd. They’ve all expressed a want to proceed working collectively and honor Cornell’s legacy. “We’re going by way of pure therapeutic, then eager about the pure subsequent step,” Shepherd stated in 2018.
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Thayil additionally acknowledged the significance of the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame after the band’s 2023 nomination. “In case you’re a fan, it’s a validation of your selections and your value determinations in your musical tastes,” he stated. “In order that modified my understanding of it, and made me understand it’s essential.”
A Rock Corridor reunion, nonetheless transient, may supply a way of catharsis and validation for each the remaining members of Soundgarden and their legion of followers. “Now that Chris is gone, it’s much more essential,” Thayil stated. “It’s for Chris’s reminiscence and the band’s legacy. And for our followers – for the love and dedication they’ve proven us for all these many years.”
The White Stripes
Since breaking apart in 2011, the White Stripes’ Jack and Meg White have taken polar reverse profession paths. The previous has continued to launch music and tour at a relentless tempo as a solo artist and member of the Raconteurs and Useless Climate, whereas the latter retired from music and retreated from the general public eye to her native Detroit.
“I don’t assume anybody talks to Meg,” White instructed Rolling Stone in 2014. “She’s at all times been a hermit.” As for his or her totally different views on making music and general demeanors? “We’d be working within the studio and one thing superb would occur: I’m like, ‘Rattling, we simply broke into a brand new world proper there!’ And Meg’s sitting in silence.”
Though White has at all times been fast to defend his ex-wife and bandmate’s musical contributions (together with in a 2023 social media episode concerning Meg’s abilities behind the package), Meg’s staunch refusal to do interviews and obvious disillusionment with the music business makes a White Stripes Rock Corridor reunion appear particularly unlikely.
The band’s frontman has expressed ambivalence over the establishment as effectively, telling WRIF’s Meltdown in 2022: “I have not actually considered that. I imply, you realize, all of the awards are political, actually. So it is laborious to essentially grasp any actual considered what they really imply. You realize, possibly it ought to be known as the Music Museum as an alternative.”
Outkast
It has been practically 20 years since Atlanta hip-hop duo Outkast launched their final studio album, 2006’s Idlewild — a industrial comedown following the 2003 diamond-selling smash Speakerboxxx/The Love Under. Andre 3000 and Large Boi launched into a festival-circuit reunion tour in 2014, headlining huge gatherings akin to Coachella, Austin Metropolis Limits and extra. Quick-forward a decade, nonetheless, and new music would not appear to be within the playing cards.
“I’ll say possibly 10, 15 years in the past, in my thoughts, I believed an Outkast album would occur,” Andre instructed Rolling Stone in December 2024. “I don’t know the longer term, however I can say that we’re additional away from it than we’ve ever been. I believe it’s a chemistry factor. Now we have to be desirous to do it. It’s laborious for me to make a rap, interval, you realize? And typically I’m within the perception of ‘Let issues be.'”
Outkast expressed their gratitude for his or her Rock Corridor nomination in a joint Instagram submit. Whereas Andre declined to remark additional on the nomination, Large Boi — who helped induct Kate Bush in 2023 — instructed Vulture that he would “positively” attend the ceremony if the duo was inducted.
“It’s just like the final Infinity Stone in my Thanos glove. It’s not even one thing I believed was on the desk once we began making music,” he stated. “When you concentrate on the Rock Corridor, you consider the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, and all of those legendary rock bands. It’s been cool to see them transfer into different genres and it’s an enormous honor to be thought-about alongside individuals I’ve admired since I used to be a child.”
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