The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced Thursday its five 2016 inductees – Cheap Trick, Deep Purple, Chicago, Steve Miller and rap group N.W.A, according to NPR.
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NME reports that the inductees have been revealed for the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Cheap Trick, Chicago, and Steve Miller were nominated for the first time, whereas N.W.A. and Deep Purple had previously been up for the nod, but didn’t receive enough votes. The group will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year. The hit biopic, Straight Outta Compton, probably was influential in the group’s having made the list over other bands that perhaps also are deserving to be members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Ballots are then sent to more than 600 artists, historians and music industry figures who make the final selection.
Cheap Trick winds down its 2015 tour itinerary this week with shows on Friday in Napa, California; Saturday in Stateline, Nevada; and Sunday in San Jose, California.
The 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Performer Inductees were chosen by more than 800 voters of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, as well as the aggregate results of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s online fan vote. Chic’s co-founder Nile Rodgers recently said he did not want to “get weird” about the lack of recognition but added: “I’ve written more hit records than nearly everybody in the Hall of Fame”. Tickets will go on sale to the public in February, and the event will be broadcast on HBO later in the spring. Eight of the individual members of Deep Purple have already been inducted int the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, namely, David Coverdale, Ian Paice, Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, Glenn Hughes, and Roger Glover. Chicago, for instance, became eligible for induction in 1994 – under the Hall’s requirement that 25 years have elapsed since the release of an act’s first recording – but made the nomination list for the first time this year.
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Ice Cube on the NWA’s induction: “This means that the group’s mark is solidified”. “I knew it would probably happen one day”, he told Rolling Stone. The “fan’s ballot”, won by Chicago this year, has only been around for four years.
