N.W.A., led by Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, was elected after three unsuccessful nominations in a year when a movie about the group’s career, “Straight Outta Compton”, was a box-office hit.
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N.W.A will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year. They were preceded by, in order, Grandmaster Flash, Run-DMC, the Beastie Boys and Public Enemy. After the nominees were selected, fans could cast votes online to help sway the vote. It would have been nice to see Yes inducted sooner, especially since its co-founder, bassist Chris Squire, died in 2015.
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Both Miller and Cheap Trick made it during their first year on the ballots. “Chicago’s early line-up created such an unmistakable sound and their inclusion into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not only well-deserved, but an honour that has been overlooked”. Yes and other prog rock groups like Emerson, Lake and Palmer, King Crimson, and The Moody Blues, have yet to make it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, though each of these bands has made lasting contributions to rock music. “We are extremely excited and we are happy for that”. Voters include over 800 record execs, music experts, music critics, and past winners. The ceremony will take place on April 8 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Sure, everybody loves singing along to Cheap Trick’s “Surrender” or playing air-guitar to Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water”, but they’re relics in comparison.
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The Steve Miller Band has had 25 members in the past five decades, but the guitarist will stand alone at the podium next April as the sole inductee. The other inductees are Deep Purple and Steve Miller.
“Who would they induct?” “There have been so many members of this band (that) even if they say it will be core members, who would it be?”
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“I became eligible and nothing happened and it sort of went on for a while and the people started complaining about it and it became kind of weird”, Miller told Billboard. “I think everyone now, at this point, no matter how you feel about us, understands what the group actually did and what it means to modern music”. That avoids the problem. “If I was running the Hall of Fame, I wouldn’t have known how to do it…But it looks like we’re in and I’m very pleased”. Look at some of the non-entities who’ve got in.
