Biography | Lionel Richie — The L.A. Live Hall That Stood In for Cleveland

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a building on Lake Erie.

The night Lionel Richie entered it happened in downtown Los Angeles.

On 5 November 2022 the induction ceremony filled the Microsoft Theater at 777 Chick Hearn Court, inside the L.A. Live complex.

The house held about 7,100 seats.

ELS Architecture designed it. It opened in 2007 as the Nokia Theatre and took the Microsoft name in 2015.

Lenny Kravitz inducted him. Richie played Hello at the piano, then Easy with Dave Grohl on guitar, then All Night Long.

The 2022 performer class also included Dolly Parton, Eminem, Duran Duran, Pat Benatar, the Eurythmics, and Carly Simon.

Harry Belafonte, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and others entered in other categories the same night.

HBO carried the taped show on 19 November.

A visitor looking for a Richie vitrine should still go to Cleveland. This pin is the room where the speech and the three songs happened.

The marquee has changed again. On 11 July 2023 the hall became the Peacock Theater.

The concrete and the stage are the same.

Do not treat this as a current workplace or a private address. It is a ticketed arena at L.A. Live.

Photo: Microsoft Theater exterior, July 2022, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. The shot is four months before the induction, under the name the building still wore that night.