Andy Greene of Rolling Stone reports: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has officially announced next year’s inductees: Nirvana, KISS, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, Cat Stevens and Linda Ronstadt will all join the class of 2014. The E Street Band will be given the Award for Musical Excellence and Beatles manager Brian Epstein and original Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham will both receive the Ahmet Ertegun Award for non-performers.
The induction ceremony will be held at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on April 10th, 2014. It’s the first time the general public will be able to attend the event in New York City. Tickets go on sale in January; HBO will air the event in May.
Artists are eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25 years after the release of their first album or single. Nirvana, whose first single Love Buzz came out in 1988, are entering the institution their first year of eligibility. “That’s really no surprise to me,” says Rock and Roll Hall of Fame President and CEO Joel Peresman. “People see the relevancy of that band. We’re just getting into the creative of the show, so I don’t know what’s going to happen with that performance. They have to figure it out.”
KISS have been eligible for the last 15 years, but didn’t get the nod until now. “The Kiss Army has descended on Cleveland in recent years,” says Peresman. “And we’ve gotten thousands of letters. They also did extremely well in the public vote.” (In 2012, the band joked to Rolling Stone, “We’ve been thinking about it and the answer is simply, ‘We’ll just buy it and fire everybody.'”)
The annual induction ceremony has moved out of the tiny New York Waldorf Astoria Ballroom in recent years into larger venues in Cleveland and Los Angeles, where the public can attend along with music industry insiders.
This year’s event at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center is the first time the induction has been held in an arena, making it the largest ceremony in the history of the Hall of Fame. “Bringing in the fans adds an incredible energy to the event,” says Peresman. “The fans should have an opportunity to see the show. They are the reason these bands exist.”
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Hall & Oates but no Deep Purple. I think I’ll laugh myself to drink listening to Not Fragile or Question Of Balance or my Smoke On The Water 45rpm I bought at Woolworths in ’73. I’m glad Linda is not showing up….like she needed to be insulted with L.L. Cool J. & Little Anthony & Bonnie Raitt in before her. File under Jan Wenner sucks.
Linda Rondstadt is a great rock singer and deserves to be in the HoF, but Bonnie Raitt kicks Linda Rondstadt’s ass up and down. Not only is she a GREAT singer, but one of the top slide guitarists of all time.
I bet Gene gives Ace and Peter a very brief, casual mention.
This is great news! Now we finally don’t have to hear Eddie complain anymore that Hall & Oates aren’t in…
Are Bruce Kulick and Eric Carr getting inducted too?
No
What a shame. Eric deserves to go in w/them. Paul and Eric carried the band in the 80’s.
This reminds me of a kid not being liked by the other kids, who then tells the playground aide. The playground aide then forces the other kids too play with him. Why in the world would you want to play along with them, when they were FORCED to do it? I wish Kiss told them where to stick it. My dream is Paul and Gene go onstage, turn down the award, and start a Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Hall of Fame, FOR US METAL FANS! Why should us metal fans care at all about what “The Establishment” thinks about our fans? Steven Dunn had the best quote ever on “The Establishment”,
“We’re doing just fine, without you!”