Cal Vid's video: Zendaya Inducts Cher Speech Rock Hall 2024

On October 19, 2024, Cher was one of the inductees who performed at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Cher and Dua Lipa performed “Believe” together, joined by the Roots. Along with Cher’s induction speech—introduced by Zendaya—she added a performance of “If I Could Turn Back Time.” “Where do I even begin?” Zendaya started her speech. “There is not one person in this room, in this country and pretty much in the whole world who doesn’t know who I’m here to honor tonight. So iconic, she only needs one name.… She does it all and, may I add, really fucking well.” In her own speech, Cher joked about her overdue induction, having said last year that she would refuse the honor were it offered. “It was easier getting divorced from two men than it was to get into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,” she said last night. “I want to thank my guardian David Geffen, because yeah, he wrote a letter and sent it to the directors and so… ha ha, here I am.” She later added, “The one thing I have never done, is I never give up,” she explained. “And I am talking to the women, OK… we have been down and out, but we keep striving, and we keep going and we are somebody. We are special.”