Cleveland got the revelrous 30 Rock treatment in late October with the return of an in-person Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which is now finally available to be viewed by the masses on HBO.

This year’s class served as the most gorgeously overstuffed and diverse in the Hall’s history: Tina Turner, Carole King, the Go-Go’s, Jay-Z, Foo Fighters, and Todd Rundgren were recognized as performers; Kraftwerk, Charley Patton, and Gil Scott-Heron as early influences; LL Cool J, Billy Preston, and Randy Rhoads for general musical excellence; and Clarence Avant for the creative Ahmet Ertegun Award.

Paul McCartney deigned Cleveland with his presence to induct Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters into the Hall (this is Grohl’s second induction, years after getting in as a member of Nirvana), and the two joined forces at the end of the ceremony to perform the first super jam since 2019: a spirited rendition of the Beatles standard “Get Back.” Sure, it would’ve been nice to have more musicians join in on the fun, but it was still Sir Paul doing a Beatles song.

This hot intel comes from the Go-Go’s bassist Kathy Valentine, who revealed a few days after the ceremony that another super jam was planned to honor Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, who unexpectedly died earlier this year at the age of 80.

The format, according to Valentine, was one of a pretty epic scale: the Go-Go’s, Foo Fighters, Mickey Guyton, Brandi Carlile, Jennifer Hudson, and H.E.R would perform the Stones’ “Tumbling Dice” in tribute.

It’s estimated that women currently encompass only 8 percent of the total Rock Hall of Fame body, a grim statistic that many female performers, including Stevie Nicks and Janet Jackson, have lambasted with their induction speeches in the past.

The Go-Go’s continued that trend at this year’s ceremony with bassist Kathy Valentine calling out what she believed was the Hall’s proclivity for misogyny.

“By recognizing our achievement, the Rock Hall celebrates possibility, the kind of possibility that creates hopeful dreamers.

The induction of the five members of the Go-Go’s, Turner, and King marks the most women the Hall ever included in a single class.

But as a concise recap for those who chose not to make the trek to Cleveland: Tina Turner, who lives in Europe, accepted her second Hall induction in a short and sweet video message.

What Rock Hall.

The rapper and entrepreneur joined the legions of hip-hop icons to be inducted into the Hall and admitted in his speech that the honor nearly made him “cry in front of all these white people.” Chappelle aside, pretty much every single famous person in in the Knowles-Carter Rolodex showed up in a video montage to celebrate his achievement — Jay was inducted in his first year of eligibility — which included Barack Obama, who joked that the duo shared a special brotherhood because they “both have wives that are significantly more popular than we are.” More meaningfully, the former president added, “I’ve turned to Jay-Z’s words at different points in my life, whether I was brushing dirt off my shoulder on the campaign trail or sampling his lyrics on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the 50th anniversary of the Selma march to Montgomery.”?

(Brandi Carlile strumming along to the Everly Brothers for the in memoriam segment was quite lovely, too.) We’ll single out two covers in particular, though, that drew the biggest audience responses: Christina Aguilera’s diva master class of “River Deep, Mountain High” for Tina Turner and Taylor Swift bewitching the audience with an ethereal, synth-driven cover of “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?” for Carole King.

Like Grohl, Turner and King are now two-time Hall of Fame inductees: Turner was previously honored for her musicianship with her husband, Ike Turner, and King for songwriting with her husband, Gary Goffin.

Not really, of course, but even Sir Paul was amazed at the parallels shared between him and the Foo’s front man when he inducted the band into the Hall.