Billy Joel must feel really honored being inducted by Ray Charles, and the respect that Ray Charles has for Billy Joel is awesome. Ray Charles is Billy Joel's hero and someone who he respected 🎉🎉
God bless this wonderful man. I am so grateful that I got to live a few years during his lifetime. I was introduced to his music when I was very young, and I’ve always had a sentimental place in my heart for it.
What an honour the GREATEST AMERICAN MUSICIAN OF ALL TIMES RAY CHARLES INTRODUCING BILLY JOEL .I PLAYED IN A BAND LESLIE WEST VAGRANTS IN THE 60 s and we played often. with Billy's old band THE HASSELS.Congradulations on your huge success!! EVANGELIST ROGER MANSOUR MISSIONARY TO HAITI
Billy was right, all music is a derivative of black music. And if it was held to that standard, no white man would be in the Hall of Fame. Fortunately for us, and Billy, we get that. I'm glad that Billy stated that fact. Ray, thanks for being the genius that you are. You, and so many others are the reason why Rock and Roll exists.
'The King of Soul".....Mr Charles didnt not invent rock, lets be clear. But what he gave to the genre was a blueprint that was used and manifested in every single genre of popular music, be it r&b, country, pop, gospel and the blues. As awesome as Sam Cooke was, along with Otis and James B, Little Richard and Chuck, were...they did not mesh gospel, the blues and pop together, like Ray did. He was the creator of a gospel lyric being turned into a soul lyric....Sam came behind him and did that...Aretha, came behind him and followed that path. And if you look at the men and women that followed Ray you can see how my theory stands up. Etta James learned at the feet of Big Mama Thornton and Ray Charles. Aretha learned at the feet of Ray and Clara Ward...Billy Preston learned at the feet of Little Richard and Ray Charles...Stevie Wonder learned at the feet of Ray Charles and Sam Cooke. So the common thread of success of all those legends, runs thru Ray Charles.
Sir Ray Charles is truly a humble man and such a great wonderlful person, I L❤VE YOU Sir Rey and Sir Billy Joel my idol and great wordeful singer God bless you both
it's right that billy got inducted . but it's wrong that Neil sedaka who was a,clear influence on him has yet to be inducted . he should have been inducted before billy . the rock and roll hall of fame needs to get its priorities right . pioneer's like Neil sedaka first then those who came after . From Michael from Yorkshire and proud of it .
Every time you’d think he couldn’t get any worse, he found new ways to combine laziness and lack of imagination with access to a studio to pump out another pallid pop atrocity. He’s the Fifty Shades and John Grisham of music-except that everybody knows that Fifty Shades and John Grisham are awful, while Joel is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame." - Noah Berlatsky What's bad for Noah Berlatsky is good for Ray Charles. Which do you think is the more important opinion?
