Though tempted to tell David Geffen, who she said wrote a letter to the Hall of Fame Foundation on her behalf, to “please take it back,” Cher said that in the end she was happy with the way things turned out. “I felt good. I can say that I’m happy that I’m in,” she says. “If I didn’t [think] it, I wouldn’t be here.”

It finally happened, to pomp, circumstance and standing ovation. Cherilyn Sarkisian is now an inductee of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. She accepted her induction at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse on Saturday night,