“Hello Cleveland!”

St. Vincent’s Annie Clark clearly loved the This is Spinal Tap reference. She couldn’t stop saying it at Friday night’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame concert.

“Yeah, I know. It’s a tired joke,” she said, before explaining that her gold guitar appears in the mockumentary’s upcoming sequel, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues . “So I think it’s okay to come to this city and with all gusto and all love in my heart, and say, ‘Hello Cleveland!’”

Standing on the outdoor plaza’s stage, the musician and her band rocked out in perfectly cool late-summer weather in their tight set — all right here in the home of rock ‘n roll. (Or, at least in the driveway to the home of rock ‘n’ roll.)

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It was fitting. St. Vi

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