Phil Gallo of Billboard reports:
The punk trio Green Day is the 48th act to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility, joining acts such as Nirvana, R.E.M. and the Clash as first-ballot honorees. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Bill Withers, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and Lou Reed will join them in the class of 2015 being inducted April 18 at Cleveland’s Public Hall.
In addition, Ringo Starr will be honored with the Award for Musical Excellence and the “5” Royales will receive the Early Influence Award.
The Smiths, Nine Inch Nails, Kraftwerk, N.W.A, Sting and Chic were among acts on the ballot that did not make cut.
A voting body of more than 700 artists, historians and members of the music industry chose the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performer inductees. To be eligible for nomination, an individual artist or band must have released its first single or album at least 25 years prior to the year of nomination. The 2015 nominees had to release their first recording no later than 1989.
Induction ceremony presenters, performers and broadcast information as well as additional details about the week of events leading up the show ceremony will be announced at a later date.
Read more at Billboard.
source: billboard.com
36 Responses
does the rnr hall of shame just not think metal is real music……? this cannot be their idiotic argument can it……….. ??
RRHOF is a F**KING joke to rock and metal. I say all of us fans of Eddie and hard rock and metal all get up some kind of donation from all around the country and hire some clever business men, and some how get our own Rock and Roll Metal hall of fame and blow the S**T out of the unreal one. I wonder if somehow us real fans can get a hall of fame somehow with Eddie as the leader……..Rock On friends….
I tired of Rolling Stone and the Jan Wenner crowd years ago. They can have Patty Smith and her mustache.
LOL!!!!! You’re killing me.
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We can complain till blue in the face maybe if no one visits the RRHF the May be those 700
Musical experts will get it good Joan Jett and Stevie Ray made it.
And where the heck is the real Paul Stanley?
SRV and DT I’m OK with somewhat but I’m trying to figure out what credentials they are basing their selections on if they are basing them on any. Every year you scratch your head more and more.