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Wide of pressroom as Neil Diamond poses for photographers2. SOUNDBITE (English) Neil Diamond/Recording Artist\"It's about as good as it gets. It's a crowning moment. It's the peak. It...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAssociated Press Television\u003cbr/\u003eNew York - 14 March 2011\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of pressroom as Neil Diamond poses for photographers\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE (English) Neil Diamond/Recording Artist\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's about as good as it gets. It's a crowning moment. It's the peak. It shows acceptance by your peers. And also, it puts you in a club with people you love, and whose music that you love. So, it's very nice.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Medium of Neil Diamond taking pictures of photographers while being photographed\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (English) Neil Diamond/Recording Artist, (on a taking a one-day break from his Australian tour):\u003cbr/\u003e\"This is a day you don't want to miss. It's special. And no way I'm going to miss it, so flying up from Australia is a piece of cake.''\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of Alice Cooper posing for photographers\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Cooper/Recording Artist\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's nice to get hard rock, our kind of rock, in the hall. I can't count the concerts we've done from 1965 to now. It's really been hard work, but we love it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie posing for photographers\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Cooper/Recording Artist\u003cbr/\u003e\"That comes with the music. I don't see how you can deny it. When you're writing songs that are inherently theatrical, you can't just leave them there, to me. I think you have to let them come alive. You need straightjackets. You need guillotines. You need things like that on stage.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of Alice Cooper and choir kids from Ronald McDonald House\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Cooper/Recording Artist\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think this might break open that sort of seal. There are a lot of bands out there very deserving musically, like you said, Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer. When you think of the bands - King Crimson. Just so many great bands out there that I think eventually will be in.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Medium of Alice Copper and Rob Zombie posing with boa constrictor\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (English) Rob Zombie/Recording Artist\u003cbr/\u003e\"There's not very many people that have been that influential or that important to me. There are certain people when you're a kid that you love and they sort of set on the path of your life, in a way, and Alice was definitely one of them. So to be - to have worked with him, know him for twenty years, to be friends, and then to do this. I mean this is a big honor for him, and to be part of it in any way, let alone in a major way, it's very stressful. All I wanted to do was not screw it up. That was my only goal. Still not sure if I achieved that yet.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Medium of Elton John and Leon Russell sitting on stage\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (English) Elton John/Recording Artist\u003cbr/\u003e\"When we got together in 2009 to discuss making a record, one of my ambitions was to have Leon become a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because I thought he should be in here, having seen his body of work. I didn't know at the time what his body of work was.  I knew he played on people's records, I just didn't know how many.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) Leon Russell/Recording Artist\u003cbr/\u003e\"Before we did this, I hadn't spoken to him in thirty-five years, so it was all a brand new thing. He played a couple of shows for me back in the early days when he was first starting out. But I never worked with him before. This was really fun.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide of Doctor John\u003cbr/\u003e17. UPSOUND: ''Dr. John, where can I get a pair of shoes like that?''\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) Doctor John/Recording Artist\u003cbr/\u003e\"At the pimp store, downtown.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide of Doctor John and John Legend\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE (English) Joel Peresman/President of RRHOF\u003cbr/\u003e\"One person's passion is different than the others. That's what makes everything so wonderful about the genre. Someone may like Miles Davis and Madonna, and someone else may like Alice Copper and Leon Russell. But they're not wrong. Nobody's wrong, because it's music, and they love it, and when people's passions are served, there can't be no wrong answers in what they define rock and roll to be.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide of Darlene Love holding award\u003cbr/\u003e21. Bette Midler and Darlene Love\u003cbr/\u003eThe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's class of 2011 was inducted Monday night (14 MARCH) in New York City.\u003cbr/\u003eAlice Cooper came to the party with a familiar friend - a boa constrictor.\u003cbr/\u003eThe theatrical rock band with a lead singer who takes the same name joined New Orleans piano maestro Dr. John, Tom Waits, Neil Diamond, Darlene Love and Leon Russell.\u003cbr/\u003eCooper, the singer, wrapped a huge snake around his neck for his induction and performed a trio of the band's hits in a shirt spattered with fake blood. \u003cbr/\u003eHe was joined by the choir from the Ronald McDonald House for his hit, ''School's Out.'' \u003cbr/\u003eAfter being inducted, Cooper told AP Entertainment he was thrilled.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's nice to get hard rock, our kind of rock, in the hall. I can't count the concerts we've done from 1965 to now. It's really been hard work, but we love it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAlice Cooper was inducted by Rob Zombie, who he idolized from his youth.\u003cbr/\u003e\"There are certain people when you're a kid that you love and they sort of set on the path of your life, in a way, and Alice was definitely one of the them,\" Zombie said.\u003cbr/\u003eDiamond was inducted by Paul Simon who noted that Diamond was first eligible for the rock hall in 1991. He questioned why it took so long.\u003cbr/\u003eAs for Diamond, he appeared jet-lagged for his induction. He flew 25 hours from Australia and is due to fly back there Tuesday to resume a concert tour. \u003cbr/\u003e\"This is a day you don't want to miss. It's special. And no way I'm going to miss it, so flying up from Australia is a piece of cake,\" Diamond said.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Brooklyn-born Diamond wrote pop-rock hits for himself (''Solitary Man'') and others (The Monkees' 'I''m a Believer''). Presidential daughter Caroline Kennedy was the inspiration for \"Sweet Caroline,\" now a Boston Red Sox anthem. \u003cbr/\u003eDiamond settled into a comfortable career as a middle-of-the-road concert favorite, although he made some challenging recordings in recent years with producer Rick Rubin.\u003cbr/\u003eSongwriter Waits is well-versed in blues, poetry and ballads, with songs rough and romantic. \u003cbr/\u003eSeveral of his Hall of Fame predecessors have recorded his work, including Bruce Springsteen (''Jersey Girl''), the Ramones (''I Don't Want to Grow Up''), Rod Stewart (''Downtown Train'') and Johnny Cash (''Down There By the Train''). Neil Young said Waits is \"indescribable and I'm here to describe him.\"\u003cbr/\u003eRussell, who was inducted by Elton John, spoke of their friendship.\u003cbr/\u003eLove, whose voice cut through Phil Spector's \"Wall of Sound,\" called her induction into the hall her best 70th birthday present. She fought back tears in her acceptance speech, saying she had faith that the gift God gave her would sustain her for the rest of her life.\u003cbr/\u003eLove lent her powerful voice to several of Spector's hits, in acts such as the Crystals and Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans. Her \"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)\" is a holiday standard: She sang on U2's cover and performs it every December on David Letterman's show.\u003cbr/\u003eRussell was inducted by Elton John who lobbied for the artist.\u003cbr/\u003e\"When we got together in 2009 to discuss making a record, one of my ambitions was to have Leon become a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because I thought he should be in here, having seen his body of work. I didn't know at the time what his body of work was.   I knew he played on people's records, I just didn't know how many,\" John said.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile the class of 2011 is diverse, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame President Joel Peresman summed up the diversity.\u003cbr/\u003e\"When people's passions are served, there can't be no wrong answers in what they define rock and roll to be.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNext, year, the ceremony will take place at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame museum in Cleveland, Ohio. 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