Run-DMC, Metallica and Jeff Beck enter Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

(From Guardian Unlimited)

Run-DMC, Metallica and Jeff Beck were among the artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday night, in a cavalcade of concert collaborations and teary-eyed speeches. The four-hour celebration, at Cleveland, Ohio's Public Hall, was the first time the ceremony has ever been open to the public.

Run-DMC are only the second hip-hop act to have been inducted. Dressed in a leather jacket and fedora, Eminem saluted them in one of his first televised appearances in years. "I still remember being in ninth grade when Tougher Than Leather came out," he said. "I skipped school to go get it on cassette. As soon as I heard Run's House, …