Now that the\u00a0Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/a> class of 2025 has been announced<\/a>, a new question emerges: What reunions can fans expect\u00a0at the induction ceremony?<\/p>\n The momentous occasion has previously been enough to coax musicians out of retirement or back together after years of estrangement. When Judas Priest<\/a> performed at their 2022 induction<\/a>, they did so with former guitarist K.K. Downing<\/a>, who left the band in 2011.<\/p>\n It’s just one of several examples of\u00a0mending fences in the name of rock.\u00a0The 2025 Rock Hall class has the potential\u00a0for a few such reunions, with varying degrees of likelihood.<\/p>\n Read on to see three huge reunions that could happen at the 2025 Rock Hall ceremony.<\/p>\n Any Soundgarden<\/a> “reunion” comes with the obvious caveat that it won’t include late frontman Chris Cornell<\/a>, who died in 2017. But a partial\u00a0reunion featuring guitarist Kim Thayil, drummer Matt Cameron and bassist Ben Shepherd isn’t out of the question.<\/p>\n The surviving members of Soundgarden reunited in 2019 for the “I Am the Highway<\/a>” tribute concert to Cornell, and again in December 2024 to play a benefit show<\/a> under the anagram\u00a0Nudedragons,\u00a0joined by Seattle singer Shaina Shepherd.\u00a0They’ve all expressed a desire to continue working together and honor Cornell’s legacy. “We\u2019re going through natural healing, then thinking about the natural next step,” Shepherd said<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n READ MORE: 8 Hair Metal Bands That Belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Thayil also acknowledged the\u00a0significance<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after the band’s 2023 nomination. “If you\u2019re a fan, it\u2019s a validation of your choices and your appraisals in your musical tastes,” he said. “So that changed my understanding of it, and made me realize it\u2019s important.”<\/p>\n A Rock Hall reunion, however brief, could offer a sense of catharsis and validation for both the remaining members of Soundgarden and their legion of fans.\u00a0\u201cNow that Chris is gone, it\u2019s even more important,” Thayil said. “It\u2019s for Chris\u2019s memory and the band\u2019s legacy. And for our fans \u2013 for the love and commitment they\u2019ve shown us for all these decades.\u201d<\/p>\n Since breaking up in 2011, the White Stripes<\/a>‘ Jack<\/a> and Meg White<\/a> have taken polar opposite career paths.\u00a0The former has continued to release music and tour at a relentless pace as a solo artist and member of the Raconteurs and Dead Weather, while\u00a0the latter retired from music and retreated from the public eye to her native Detroit.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think anyone talks to Meg,\u201d\u00a0White\u00a0told\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in 2014. \u201cShe\u2019s always been a hermit.” As for their different perspectives on making music and overall demeanors?\u00a0“We\u2019d be working in the studio and something amazing would happen: I\u2019m like, \u2018Damn, we just broke into a new world right there!\u2019 And Meg\u2019s sitting in silence.”<\/p>\n Although White has always been quick to defend his\u00a0ex-wife and bandmate’s\u00a0musical contributions (including in a 2023 social media<\/a>\u00a0episode regarding Meg’s skills behind the kit), Meg’s\u00a0staunch refusal to do interviews and apparent\u00a0disillusionment\u00a0with the music industry makes a White Stripes Rock Hall reunion\u00a0seem especially unlikely.<\/p>\n The band’s frontman\u00a0has expressed ambivalence over the institution as well, telling\u00a0WRIF’s Meltdown<\/a> in 2022: “I haven’t really thought about that. I mean, you know, all the awards are political, really. So it’s hard to really grasp any real thought about what they actually mean. You know, maybe it should be called the Music Museum instead.”<\/p>\n It’s been nearly two decades since Atlanta hip-hop duo Outkast<\/a> released their last studio album, 2006’s\u00a0Idlewild<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 a commercial comedown following the 2003 diamond-selling smash\u00a0Speakerboxxx\/The Love Below<\/em>.\u00a0Andre 3000 and Big Boi embarked on a festival-circuit reunion tour in 2014, headlining massive gatherings such as Coachella,\u00a0Austin City Limits and more.\u00a0Fast-forward a decade, however, and new music doesn’t seem to be in the cards.<\/p>\n “I\u2019ll say maybe 10, 15 years ago, in my mind, I thought an Outkast album would happen,” Andre told\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em> in December 2024.\u00a0“I don\u2019t know the future, but I can say that we\u2019re further away from it than we\u2019ve ever been. I think it\u2019s a chemistry thing. We have to be wanting to do it. It\u2019s hard for me to make a rap, period, you know? And sometimes I\u2019m in the belief of ‘Let things be.'”<\/p>\n Outkast expressed their gratitude for their Rock Hall nomination in a joint Instagram post<\/a>. While Andre declined to comment further on the nomination, Big Boi \u2014 who helped induct Kate Bush<\/a> in 2023 \u2014 told Vulture<\/a> that he would “definitely” attend the ceremony if the duo was inducted.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s like the last Infinity Stone in my Thanos glove. It\u2019s not even something I thought was on the table when we started making music,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you think about the Rock Hall, you think of the Beatles<\/a>, the Rolling Stones<\/a>, the Who<\/a>, and all of these legendary rock bands. It\u2019s been cool to see them move into other genres and it\u2019s a huge honor to be considered alongside people I\u2019ve admired since I was a kid.\u201d<\/p>\n Somehow, these artists haven’t been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gallery Credit: Chad Childers, Loudwire<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nSoundgarden<\/h3>\n
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