Read Taylor Swift’s Speech Welcoming Carole King, ‘the Greatest Songwriter of All Time,’ Into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

variety.com:

Chris Willman Music WriterCarole King surely had more than her ears burning and her eyes welling as she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Saturday night.

She might have felt the earth move under her feet as she accepted the powerful praise of Taylor Swift, whose 700-word speech lauded her forebear as “the greatest songwriter of all time.”One sentence in particular has already gone down in Swiftie lore, or at least caused a lot of Swift fans to Google the sleeve of the 50-year-old “Tapestry” album: “It was a watershed moment for humans in the world who have feelings, and for cats who had big dreams of one day ending up on iconic album covers.”King was already a member of the Hall of Fame, as a songwriter inducted alongside.