Patti Smith will posthumously induct her friend and former Velvet Underground singer Lou Reed into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next month. Beck will be in charge of paying tribute to the icon as well for the performance segment. Other speakers include Stevie Wonder for Bill Withers, Paul McCartney for Ringo Starr, Fall Out Boy for Green Day and John Mayer for Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Rolling Stone noted. The hall has yet to announce who will introduce Joan Jett & The Blackhearts.
Dave Grohl, John Legend, Joe Walsh, Tom Morello and Jimmie Vaughan will all perform at the ceremony. Starr has put it on his former bandmate to get some musicians together for his induction set.
"I told Paul [McCartney] that I'm not putting a band together," he said. "If he puts a band together, I'll do 'With a Little Help From My Friends.'"
Green Day has not performed for an entire year, but Billie Joe Armstrong has promised a unique setlist that will include something from the band's early days.
"We'll get there," he said of the performance. "It's hard because there's the Lookout years that are important to us. It would be nice to play something from those years that's meaningful."
Reed, who died in 2013, inducted Dion and Frank Zappa into the hall in 1989 and 1995. He was inducted as a member of the Velvet Underground in 1996 -- Smith introduced him back then as well. The surviving members paid tribute to bandmate Sterling Morrison, who had died a year earlier, with "Last Night I Said Goodbye to My Friend."
Last year's class included Kiss, Linda Ronstadt, Hall and Oates, Peter Gabriel, Cat Stevens and Nirvana.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will air on HBO May 30.
