Jay-Z, Foo Fighters and Go-Go’s in Rock Hall on first try

Jay-Z, Foo Fighters and the Go-Go’s were elected Wednesday to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame their first time on the ballot, leading a class that also includes Tina Turner, Carole King and Todd Rundgren.

Each will be honored during an induction ceremony in Cleveland on Oct. 30 before what organizers hope is a full house of fans enjoying live music again.

The hall will also welcome LL Cool J, Billy Preston and Randy Rhoads with musical excellence awards, and honor Kraftwerk, Gil Scott Heron and Charley Patton as early influencers.

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With Jay-Z, the hall inducts a 23-time Grammy winner and the first rap artist in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. His discography includes “Hard Knock Life,” “99 Problems” and “Empire State of Mind.” He has had 14 No. 1 albums to his credit.

After serving as Nirvana’s drummer, Dave Grohl stepped to center stage with Foo Fighters, becoming one of the few modern rock bands comfortable in arenas. Their hard-hitting sound produced the hits “Best of You,” “Everlong” and “Times Like These.”

As an all-female band that played their own instruments, the Go-Go’s were a relative rarity in the early 1980s. Born from Los Angeles’ punk rock scene, they had a string of melodic hits that included “We Got the Beat,” “Our Lips Are Sealed” and “Vacation.”

Turner, recently celebrated in an HBO documentary, was one of rock’s most stirring comeback stories. After escaping from an abusive relationship with husband and musical partner Ike Turner, she became a solo star in the 1980s behind the world-weary “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” and scored other hits with “Private Dancer” and “We Don’t Need Another Hero.”

King’s life was celebrated in the Broadway musical “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.” Stepping forward following a career writing songs for others, her 1971 album “Tapestry” became one of music’s best-selling albums of all time. Hits include “It’s Too Late,” “You’ve Got a Friend” and “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.”

A power pop pioneer, Rundgren is known for melodic hits like “Hello It’s Me,” “I Saw the Light” and “We Gotta Get You a Woman.” With “Bang the Drum All Day,” he’s also responsible for the song most celebrated by hooky players everywhere.

Clarence Avant, a former manager, label owner and concert organizer, is being given the Ahmet Ertegun Award as a non-performer. His impact on the music industry was highlighted in the 2019 Netflix documentary, “The Black Godfather.”

Grohl, King and Turner bring the number of artists inducted into the Rock Hall twice to 26. Prior to King and Turner, Stevie Nicks had been the only woman with that distinction.

Two new inductees — Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Go’s and Pat Smear of Foo Fighters — were once members of the L.A. punk band the Germs before getting the jobs that led to later fame.

Before getting into the hall in their special categories, both LL Cool J and Kraftwerk had each been nominated six times as performers without being elected.

Five of the six inducted performers are still working artists. Only Turner is retired, and no doubt the hall will try recruiting Beyoncé — she should be in town anyway — to pay tribute onstage. Either way, the hall is hoping for one of the first big concerts since the live music business essentially shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic.

“We really see it as a true celebration of the reopening of music — not only in America but in the world,” John Sykes, chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, said in an interview with The Associated Press.

The induction ceremony, to be held at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, will simulcast on SiriusXM and air later on HBO.

Before Porter Flournoy Turner was lynched — stabbed in the chest and back by members of the Ku Klux Klan — he was a Black boy from tiny Greensboro, Georgia.

He was a farm laborer from an early age but, by his mid-20s, had made the move 75 miles west to Atlanta. He started a family, with a wife and two sons. He worked hard, 60 hours a week as a mechanic and porter plus nights driving a taxi.

He was 50 years old on Aug. 20, 1945, the night he was pulled from his cab near Druid Hills, knifed and left to die.

For decades, the circumstances surrounding Turner’s death were hidden, even from his own descendants.

That’s no longer the case.

A historical marker honoring Turner was installed Thursday near the intersection of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Oakdale Road. The story of his death — and his life — is now told in bronze and blue, on a plaque that visitors to the surrounding parks or the nearby Paideia School will see in perpetuity.

“Each step closer to telling the truth gets us closer to some kind of reconciliation, understanding that we’re all Americans,” Turner’s grandnephew, Leland Scott Jr., said during the brief ceremony. “Once we get there, nothing will be able to stop us.”

The marker honoring Turner was the third erected by the DeKalb County NAACP’s Remembrance Project, which has worked with the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative to honor lynching victims throughout the county.

Similar markers have been installed in Lithonia (where three Black men were hanged by white mobs in the late 1800s) and in downtown Decatur. The Decatur marker recognizes all known lynchings that occurred in DeKalb County between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and 1950.

“We put up all these monuments to the creators of racial terrorism,” Dee Smith, chair of the NAACP’s Remembrance Project, said Thursday. “But this is the first opportunity we’ve had to honor the victims of racial terrorism.”

The event was attended by representatives from the NAACP, public officials and a number of Turner’s descendants.

Amy Ray, an Atlanta native and one half of the folk duo Indigo Girls, was also there. She wrote the lyrics to a song that will be debuted during a more formal dedication ceremony that’s currently scheduled for June 6.

More details will be posted at naacpdekalb.org as they’re finalized.

“It’s not about his death,” Ray said of her song, which was a collaboration with composer Thomas Jefferson Anderson. “His family came out of this. He has an amazing amount of descendants that have done amazing things. The family tree is more powerful than the lynching.”

Delores Turner is Porter Turner’s niece. She didn’t know the truth about her uncle’s death until the NAACP reached out to her nearly two years ago to ask about a marker.

She was emotional as it was put in place Thursday.

“It means so much that they thought enough to care,” she said. “To do this.”