U2, along with the Pretenders, Buddy Guy, The O’Jays, Percy Sledge, Seymour Stein (Sire Records co-founder) and agent Frank Barsalona, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Monday night.

Bruce Springsteen, who inducted them into the Hall (Bono inducted him in 1999), said, “U2 hungered for it all and built a sound, and they wrote the songs that demanded it.”

U2 closed the show with a 4-song performance that saw Bono enter the crowd and sing to Catherine Zeta-Jones at one point. He also sprayed his U2 bandmates with champagne.

The Hall is located in Cleveland but the ceremonies, the twentieth anniversary, took place in New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

Backstage, Bono was asked about being considered for the World Bank head position and a Nobel Peace Prize.

“I’m not sure a rock star who is already having the cream on the cake would ever have a Nobel Peace Prize. I’m just having the best life anyone could ever be given, just as it is being in a rock ‘n roll band,” he said.

In a surprise performance, Eric Clapton, Robbie Robertson, and Bo Diddley performed the song, “Bo Diddley,” and Clapton and Robertson joined Jerry Lee Lewis on “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On.”






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