Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Announces 2013 Nominees: Rush, Public Enemy, Chic, Heart & More
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation announced its nominees for 2013 induction today. To be eligible for nomination, an artist or band
must have released its first single or album at least 25 years prior to the
year of nomination. The 2013 Nominees had to release their first recording no
later than 1987. Ballots will be sent to an international voting body
of more than 600 artists, historians and members of the music industry. The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Announces 2013 Nominees:
- The Paul
Butterfield Blues Band - Chic
- Deep
Purple - Heart
- Joan Jett
and the Blackhearts - Albert
King - Kraftwerk
- The
Marvelettes - The Meters
- Randy
Newman - N.W.A
- Procol
Harum - Public
Enemy - Rush
- Donna
Summer
The 28th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Induction Ceremony will be held in Los Angeles at the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE on
Thursday, April 18, 2013. The show will be broadcast on HBO at a later date.
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What a complete disgrace that Cowboy Jack Clement is still not in the RockNRoll hall of fame…ever heard the song, Great Balls of Fire? …or how bout early Elvis Presley….Public Enemy before Cowboy Jack….pitiful.
“Hey, why are they letting the black people in before the white guy who co-opted black music?”
Sheesh.
Here are the top 50 Deserving, Eligible but Overlooked Artists for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame – according to rock fan votes
at:
http://www.rateitall.com/t-2529-deserving-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame.aspx
1) Rush
2) Chicago
3) Deep Purple
4) Yes
5) Doobie Brothers
6) Moody Blues
7) Dire Straits
8) Jethro Tull
9) Electric Light Orchestra
10) The Cars
11) Heart
12) Pete Townshend (solo)
13) Steve Miller
14) Squeeze
15) Journey
16) Styx
17) Carole King
18) Stevie Ray Vaughan
19) The Guess Who
20) Hall & Oates
21) T. Rex
22) Badfinger
23) Kiss
24) The Monkees
25) Supertramp
26) Foreigner
27) Jim Croce
28) Emerson, Lake & Palmer
29) Peter Gabriel (solo)
30) Boston
31) Cat Stevens
32) Three Dog Night
33) The Zombies
34) Gordon Lightfoot
35) Bad Company
36) Todd Rundgren
37) Steppenwolf
38) Scorpions
39) Grand Funk Railroad
40) INXS
41) Def Leppard
42) Cheap Trick
43) The Replacements
44) Thin Lizzy
45) Los Lobos
46) The Grass Roots
47) Steve Winwood (solo)
48) The Jam
49) Linda Ronstadt
50) The Cure
It’s good to see bands like Deep Purple, Heart, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Albert King, and Rush on this list. They are truly deserving of this award.