
Madonna
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Year:
2008
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Inducted by:
Justin Timberlake
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Category:
Performers
Introduction
The record-setting, line-crossing, sexuality-flaunting, ever-evolving Material Girl.
Madonna is an icon. With her larger than life persona and penchant for provocation, she needs no introduction.

Justin Timberlake Inducts Madonna
Justin Timberlake Inducts Madonna at the 2008 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony-
Justin Timberlake Inducts Madonna00:11:00
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Madonna Acceptance Speech00:15:47
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"Burning Up"00:03:18
Hall of Fame Essay
2008
Forget her role as fashion plate. And businesswoman. And dancer. And sexual contrarian. And video groundbreaker. And PR powerhouse. And shock queen. And even as icon.
Yes, all those roles play their parts in the global juggernaut, and aesthetic nexus, that is Madonna, but, collectively, they offer one big distraction from the key element that anchors them all: the music.


Madonna’s music dared you. Hell, it ordered you to express yourself.
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Photography: Kevin Mazur, WireImage; Bob Gruen