![]() "If you look at everyone in the Hall, it makes perfect sense to have Dolly Parton in there," he said. Halford told Rolling Stone earlier in the year that he had no issues with Dolly being inducted into the Rock Hall. I've got to stick my tongue out and my horns up." Tongue out, horns up, behind Dolly Parton's head. I'm just going to run to the table and do the devil's horns thing. "I'm going to see what table she is sitting at. "I'm going to force her to, even if she doesn't know who I am," he told Metal Crypt in June. Halford had previously revealed he is a huge fan of Dolly, and had planned to take a photo with her at the ceremony. And here I am, this kid from a public housing estate in the West Midlands in England, and I'm standing next to Dolly fucking Parton, who is now a rock chick."īack in February, when PRIEST's third nomination for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame was announced, Halford told Billboard that, "I must do a duet with Dolly Parton! … If Lionel and PRIEST get in, I think we'll both be dancing on the ceiling together." She'd come over and do these British variety shows. I know her work because I've lived as long as Dolly, and I was aware of Dolly as a young person growing up and seeing her on British television. So, for me to have that opportunity, I was just blessed and honored and thrilled. There are some people who are very different on and off stage. She's a genuinely beautiful light of love and caring and philanthropy and humanity. She's just got this aura about her personality. What I mean by that is when Dolly walks into the room, you feel this regal presence. "I'll tell you something about her: she's been here forever, a bit like Her Majesty the Queen, who left us recently. ![]() And now these days have gone by, and people are going, 'Where's the album with Dolly and The Metal God?' I sang one chorus with Dolly Parton and the world's gone nuts. And I didn't realize that we were going to be so connected. Again, it was just kind of floating around that she was going to do this song at the end of the show and bring all of her friends onstage with her. Speaking to the San Antonio Current about what it was like to briefly share the microphone with Dolly, Rob said: "I knew that there was going to be an opportunity a few weeks before the event. Also appearing with them as part of a "super jam" performance were some of the other Rock Hall inductees, including Pat Benatar, Annie Lennox and DURAN DURAN's Simon Le Bon. JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford joined country legend Dolly Parton on stage on November 5 at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony to perform her classic song "Jolene".
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