Just when I was wondering how the Rock Hall inductions were supposed to last four hours when they had run through two inductions in half an hour, Lou Reed arrived and read a lot of Leonard Cohen poetry. That would be fine, I suppose, if Leonard Cohen wasn't there, but he was and his own reading of "Tower of Song" was so much better,
And he paraphrased the great Jon Landau line about Bruce Springsteen, changing it to: "I have seen the future of rock and roll and it is not Leonard Cohen."
Luckily, Damien Rice's gorgeous version of "Hallelujah" -- which should stand as one of the evening's highlights -- quickly made me forget what came before it.