Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chubby Checker is heading to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but it wasn’t always this way. More than 20 years ago, he famously ...

Chubby Checker can still twist like a champ! The '60s music icon, born Ernest Evans, is known best for classic dance hits like “The Twist,” “The Fly,” and “The Hucklebuck.” But decades after those ...

It’s about damn time that musical icon Chubby Checker be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame! Checker rose to fame after popularizing “The Twist” dance ...

In a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twist, Chubby Checker has been named a 2025 inductee. The announcement of the Spring Gully, South Carolina-born singer and dancer making it into the class was made by ...

Rock and Roll legend Chubby Checker is skipping his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in favor of playing in front of his fans after waiting over three decades to join the exclusive music ...

CLEVELAND (WJW) – It’s fair to say Chubby Checker is synonymous with early rock ‘n’ roll. His version of “The Twist” was instrumental in shaping the genre — just one of many reasons the Rock and Roll ...

“The Twist” by Chubby Checker was the first song to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on two different occasions. And, for many years, it was the biggest-selling single in U.S. recording history.

A lot of classic rock has been forgotten for all the wrong reasons. For example, Chubby Checker said that his songs aren’t played on radio stations anymore because of racism. The Rock and Roll Hall of ...

When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced Sunday night that Chubby Checker would be inducted into its ranks later this year, many fans of early rock ‘n' roll who'd assumed that the Hall would ...

NEW YORK (AP) Chubby Checker wants the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to know it's time to induct him into their exclusive club before it's too late. I don't want to get in there when I'm 85-years old.

Chubby Checker is heading to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but it wasn’t always this way. More than 20 years ago, he famously protested the very museum that will now celebrate him. “Back in the day,” ...