Here is Genesis with “Dancing with the Moonlit Knight,” from its nineteen seventy-three album, “Selling England by the Pound.”

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Another British band, the Hollies, also was honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Monday night. Hollies member Graham Nash was especially excited because it was his second time. He was first inducted into the Hall of Fame in nineteen ninety-seven with his band Crosby, Stills and Nash.

The Hollies were part of the first wave of what was called “the British Invasion” of bands in the United States in the nineteen sixties. It included the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. The five members of the Hollies played solid, beat driven rock that included beautifully sung harmonies. Here is one of their top American hits, “Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress),” from nineteen seventy-two.

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Finally, Haitian musician Wyclef Jean gave a moving speech to honor Jamaican performer Jimmy Cliff. Jean said he was not permitted to sing anything but Christian songs as a child. But he loved Jimmy Cliff’s music so much that he simply added Christian lyrics.

Jimmy Cliff has been playing, singing and producing reggae music since the nineteen sixties. The only other reggae musician in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is the other major reggae star, Bob Marley.

Jimmy Cliff and his music starred in the nineteen seventy-two Jamaican film, “The Harder They Come.” We leave you with Cliff performing a song from that soundtrack. Here is “Many Rivers to Cross.”