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‘Game of Thrones’ star Pedro Pascal joining ‘Kingsman’ Sequel arcos” star Pedro Pascal has joined Fox’s spy comedy “Kinsgman: The “NGolden Circle” opposite Taron Egerton. Matthew Vaughn is returning to direct Inductees Dr Dre, from left, Ice Cube, MC Ren and DJ Yella from N.W.A appear at the 31st Inductees Bun E Carlos, from left, Tom Petersson, Robin Zander and Rick Nielsen from from a script he co-wrote with Jane Goldman. Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Barclays Center on Friday, Cheap Trick appear at the 31st Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony . The 2014 original, April 8, 2016, in New York. — AP photos “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” was based on the comic book “The Secret Service,” created by Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar, and follows the training of a potential secret agent to take on a global threat from Samuel L. Jackson’s Richmond Valentine. Vaughn also produced N.W.A. joins rock hall with the original, which grossed a surprisingly healthy $415 million worldwide. Colin Firth, Mark Strong and Michael Caine also starred. Halle Berry has been in talks to star as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Several recent reports have indicated 4 rockers from the 1970s that Julianne Moore has been in talks to play the villain in the sequel. It’s unclear whether .W.A. triumphantly entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame one of music’s hottest artists, Kendrick Lamar, who said N.W.A. Trick,” he said. “That’s when you think, we kind of suck. I better Strong will return for “Kingsman 2” but Egerton Friday, with the groundbreaking quintet that brought the members were heroes to kids like him growing up. They “proved step up my game.” Cheap Trick led the traditional jam session that recently indicated in a Tweet that Firth will Nrough streets of Los Angeles into homes through their to every kid in the ghetto that you could be successful and still ends the show, which started and ended with “Ain’t That a come back. Fox has dated “Kingsman 2” for music defiantly refuting those who suggested rappers didn’t have your voice while doing it.” Shame.” release on June 16, 2017. belong in the institution. They were the only act inducted Friday not to perform, how- Pascal, a native of Chile, portrays a DEA They joined the rock hall in a ceremony at Brooklyn’s Barclays ever. Chicago was known for a brassy, jazz-rock fusion in its early Tributes galore agent on Netflix’s “Narcos.” He played Oberyn Center with 1970s-era rock acts Cheap Trick, Chicago, Deep days and settled into a comfortable career penning pop hits. The rock hall also paid tribute Friday to two recently deceased Martell in the fourth season of “Game of Purple and Steve Miller. Among their favorites were “Saturday in the Park,” “25 or 6 to 4,” “If rockers, with David Byrne and the Roots collaborating on David Thrones” and has wrapped on Zhang Yimou’s N.W.A.’s rough-hewn tales tilted the balance toward West You Leave Me Now” and “Does Anyone Really Know What Time it Bowie’s “Fame” and Sheryl Crow singing the Eagles’ “New Kid in “The Great Wall.” Pascal is repped by WME and Coast rap in the late 1980s on songs like “F—- the Police,” “Boyz-N- Is?” Town” to honor the late Glenn Frey. Untitled Entertainment. The news was first The Hood” and “Straight Outta Compton.” Following the act’s Singer Rob Thomas, while inducting Chicago, indicated that Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich described seeing the night’s reported by Deadline Hollywood. — Reuters breakup, Dr. Dre became one of music’s most in-demand produc- Chicago was tougher and more innovative than people had given first inductees, Deep Purple, when he was nine years old and tak- ers and a billionaire with a high-tech headphone company. Ice them credit for. “If you think Chicago was your mom’s band, man I en to their concert in Copenhagen. He said it changed his life. Cube moves between music and a successful acting career. want to party with your mom,” Thomas said. He then joined the “Almost without exception, every hard rock band of the last 40 For all the success, some traditional rockers have resisted the band for a verse of “Does Anyone Really Know What Time it Is.” The years - including mine - traces its lineage back to Black Sabbath, inclusion of rap acts into the hall, most prominent Kiss’ Gene band is still active. In his acceptance speech, member Lee Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple,” Ulrich said. “They are always con- Simmons, whose band was inducted last year. “I want to say to Loughnane said he wanted to thank “my ex-wives for making sure sidered equal. In my heart, I am bewildered that they are so late in getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.” The band was without one of its founding members, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, who stayed away because current members wouldn’t agree to play with him. But the inductees regarded him warmly in their speeches and paid tribute musically - performing “Smoke on the Water” with the signature riff that the guitarist came up with. Ulrich called it the guitar riff “that has actually been banned from playing in music stores to preserve the sanity of the staff.” Steve Miller and his band played his crowd-pleasing hits “Fly Like and Eagle,” “Rock ‘n’ Me Baby” and “The Joker” to an audience of fellow musicians and industry professionals sitting at tables in the Brooklyn arena and ticket-buying members of the public in the surrounding stands. “If you listened to the radio, you listened to Steve Miller,” said the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, who inducted Miller with his part- ner Patrick Carney. He cited Miller’s run of hits that also included Inductee Steve Miller performs Steven Van Zandt speaks at the 31st Annual Rock and Roll “Jet Airliner” and “Jungle Love.” Miller stressed his blues roots in a Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. speech, and showed off licks in the extended version of “Fly Like an Eagle.” He thanked Les Paul, T Bone Walker, his parents and Gene Simmons, hip-hop is here forever,” said MC Ren. “Get used to I have to keep working.” grandmother and a succession of band members. And the audi- it.” Rock ‘n’ roll is not just a musical style but a spirit that connects The pride of Rockford, Illinois, Cheap Trick’s career soared in ence. people, be they bluesmen or punk rockers, Ice Cube said. “Rock ‘n’ the late 1970s when a live album recorded before a gleeful “Without you, nothing is possible and with your support, roll is not conforming to the people who came before you but Japanese audience added excitement to tracks like “Surrender” everything is possible,” he said. The hall also inducted songwriter creating your own path in music and in life,” he said. “That is rock ‘n’ and “I Want You to Want Me.” Turning up the volume for the night, and producer Bert Berns. HBO is filming Friday’s show and will air roll and that is us.” they performed both songs. “In 1974, we rehearsed three times in highlights on April 30. The rock hall also announced that starting (guitarist) Rick (Nielsen’s) garage and never stopped touring in 2018, it would begin alternating the annual induction ceremo- Ghetto voice since,” singer Robin Zander said. ny between New York and Cleveland, where the Hall of Fame and Named for one of N.W.A.’s best-known songs, the movie They were inducted by a fellow Midwesterner, Detroit’s Kid Museum is located. — AP Pedro Pascal as Oberyn Martell in the fourth “Straight Outta Compton” told the band’s story and was one of Rock, who noted that most bands in attendance that night con- season of “Game of Thrones”. the biggest box office winners of 2015. They were inducted by sider themselves great live acts. “Then you go and see Cheap

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